Silicon Alley Reporter prior to joining Rising Tide Studios in April 1999. He served as President & Publisher until mid-2001. The Silicon Alley Reporter 100, the list of the 100 most influential people in New York Technology, was published annually. Silicon Alley Reporter Silicon Alley Reporter was an American trade publication focused on New York's Silicon Alley. Founded by Jason Calacanis in 1996, then was renamed the "Venture Reporter" in 2001 and was eventually sold to Dow Jones in 2003. Rafat Ali served as Managing Editor before founding paidContent.org and its parent company ContentNext Media. Notable contributors include Xeni Jardin, Rafat Ali and
Concentration of media ownership Concentration of media ownership Concentration of media ownership (also known as media consolidation or media convergence) is a process whereby progressively fewer individuals or organizations control increasing shares of the mass media. Contemporary research demonstrates increasing levels of consolidation, with many media industries already highly concentrated and dominated by a very small number of firms. Globally, large media conglomerates include Bertelsmann (BMG), National Amusements (Viacom Inc. and CBS Corporation), 21st Century Fox Inc (merging with Disney on January 1, 2019), Sony Corporation, Comcast, The Walt Disney Company, AT&T Inc., Turner Broadcasting System, Hearst Communications, MGM Holdings Inc., Grupo Globo (South