Job: co-founder and chief executive, Apple Age: 52 Industry: new media Turnover: $21.59bn (year to March 31) Salary: $1 2006 ranking: 2 In the beginning was the iPod.
Job: chief executive, Microsoft Age: 53 Industry: digital media Turnover: $60.42bn Staff: 91,000 Worth: $11bn 2008 ranking: 7 If you can't buy them, beat them.
Job: co-founders and directors, Google Age: Brin 31, Page 32 Industry: new media Turnover: $3.19bn Staff: 3,021 Salary: $1 Worth: $10bn 2004 ranking: 20 Google is the ultimate new media success story.
Job: chief executive, Trinity Mirror Age: 49 Industry: publishing, digital media Turnover: £761.5m Staff: 6,650 Salary: £1.71m (including bonus and pension contributions) 2010 ranking: 62 The City loves Sly Bailey, but she is looking increasingly vulnerable at the head of newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror.
Job: chief executive, Pearson Age: 61 Industry: publishing, digital media Turnover: £4.22bn Staff: 32,000 Salary: £2.33m (including £1.34m bonus) 2007 ranking: 41 Dame Marjorie Scardino has overseen a remarkable upturn in the fortunes of the Financial Times and its parent company, Pearson.
Age: 51 Industry: new media Turnover: $17.31bn (year to April 1) Salary: $1 2005 ranking: 6 Jobs transformed the music industry and in the process created a whole new demographic - the "iPod generation".
Job: chief executive, Pearson Age: 62 Industry: publishing, digital media Turnover: £4.81bn Staff: 33,680 Salary: £2.06m (including bonus, benefit and allowances) 2008 ranking: 26 Dame Marjorie Scardino is chief executive of Financial Times parent company Pearson.
Age: 59 Industry: publishing, new media Turnover: £4.09bn Staff : 33,389 last year Salary: £1.81m (including £1.038m annual incentive and £62,000 bonus): 2005 ranking: 41 Pearson chief executive Scardino could be forgiven for breaking out the bunting this year after the group's flagship newspaper, the Financial Times, returned to profit after four years of heavy losses.
Job: chairman and chief executive, Penguin Group Age: 56 Industry: publishing, digital media Turnover: £1.053m Salary: £1.575m (total remuneration) 2010 ranking: 76 Penguin is rooted in the past as the publisher of classics such as Charles Dickens and Jane Austen, but its chairman and chief executive, John Makinson, is looking to a digital future.
Job: chief executive, Google Age: 38 Industry: digital media Turnover: $29.32bn Staff: 26,316 Salary: $1 Worth: $16.3bn 2010 ranking: 2 (shared with Sergey Brin) "Day-to-day adult supervision no longer needed!" wrote Eric Schmidt of Google in what seemed another elliptical tweet in January.
