The Independent, 2006 Top Newsmakers

1. MICHAEL GRADE

Sensationally walks out on chairman’s job at the BBC to become the new executive chairman of ITV

2. RUPERT MURDOCH

Starts a fresh newspaper war in London and scuppers Richard Branson’s bid for ITV, while feeding a frenzy of social networking online (purchasing MySpace in 2005)

3. JONATHAN ROSS

The revelation he was paid £720,000-a-year for his weekly Radio 2 show and news he has been awarded a three-year BBC contract worth £18m, confirmed his position as Britain’s most highly-valued broadcaster

4. CHAD HURLEY & STEVE CHEN

YouTube

5. TESSA JOWELL

6. KIRSTY WARK

Presenter of Newsnight + Madonna adoption story

7. MATTHEW FREUD

Sold the journalism trade magazine Press Gazette

8. ANDY DUNCAN

Made E4 and FilmFour available for free

9. JAMES MURDOCH

BSkyB

10. RICHARD BRANSON

Virgin Media

11. TOM ANDERSON & CHRIS DEWOLFE

MySpace

12. ED RICHARDS

Ofcom

13. RUSSELL BRAND

No comment!

14. CHRIS MOYLES

Radio 1

15. JOHN MICKLETHWAIT

New editor-in-chief of The Economist

16. WILL LEWIS

Youngest-ever editor of The Daily Telegraph invents the hub-and-spoke newsroom

17. FRANK LOWE

18. JANE BRUTON

Editor of Grazia

19. TERRY WOGAN

Radio 2 breakfast show Wake Up To Wogan

20. ASHLEY HIGHFIELD

bbc.co.uk

21. NOEL EDMONDS

Deal or No Deal

22. NICK ROBINSON

23. DAVID MONTGOMERY

Trinity Mirror

24. MATTHEW D’ANCONA

The Spectator

25. ADRIAN CHILES

26. KIRSTY YOUNG

27. JANE FEATHERSTONE

Joint managing director of Kudos

28. JANICE HADLOW

BBC4

29. DANNY KLEINMAN

Guinness

30. LISA OPIE

Channel Five

31. PATIENCE WHEATCROFT

Sunday Telegraph

32. PETER ERSKINE

O2

33. STEF CALCRAFT

34. SIR DAVID FROST

Veteran broadcaster – al-Jazeera International television

35. ROBERT SENIOR

Sony

36. GUIDO FAWKES

Political blog

37. LAUREN LAVERNE

The Culture Show, BBC2.

38. LIONEL BARBER

Financial Times

39. POLLY TOYNBEE

The Guardian

40. IAN HISLOP

The Private Eye editor

41. MARK THOMPSON

BBC departments to Salford

42. KELVIN MACKENZIE

43. JOHN KAMPFNER

The New Statesman

44. MARK FRITH

Heat

45. JEFF RANDALL

46. FLIC HOWARD-ALLEN

Marks & Spencer

47. JANE TRANTER

BBC Fiction
48. ANDREW PIERCE

The Daily Telegraph

49. PHIL HALL

Heather Mills

50. CERI THOMAS

BBC Radio 4’s Today programme

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