25- LES HINTON

Job: executive chairman, News International
Age: 63
Industry: publishing
2006 ranking in the media Guardian: 26
2007 ranking in the media Guardian:25

He is one of Rupert's Murdoch important person, as he is the excutive chairman of the biggest companies that owns the most famous newspapers the Sun,News of the World, the Times and the Sunday Times.
he wanted to cut down 100 jobs from the four newspapers because the company aims to make the saving of £30m in recent years.
It has been quite a year for Hinton. In the past 12 months, News International has revamped the Sun and Times websites and launched a London freesheet, the London Paper, which aimed to take a chunk out of Associated Newspapers' London Evening Standard.
Hinton also had to deal with the fallout from the royal phone-tapping scandal which led to the imprisonment of the News of the World's royal editor Clive Goodman, and the departure of the paper's editor, Andy Coulson.
Hinton turned to an old friend, former Sunday Mirror editor Colin Myler, to replace Coulson.
Goodman had also flouted the Press Complaints Commission code of practice which is overseen by Hinton in his other role as chairman of the code committee of the PCC.
A former reporter on the Sun, Hinton has worked for Murdoch for more than 40 years. Now 63, talk has turned to his successor but Hinton told the Guardian last year that he was "not thinking about retirement. I'm not thinking about doing something else."
Hinton's salary is not identified in News International's annual report, but the highest paid director - almost certain to be Hinton - received £2.1m.
Appearing before the Commons media select committee in the wake of the Goodman scandal, Hinton said genuine investigations should not be caught in the fallout.
"Placing too great an inhibition on people setting out to explore what are considered genuine issues of public concern is a dangerous thing to do," he told MPs.
Earlier, Hinton had announced a self-imposed ban on paparazzi images of Prince William and Kate Middleton in all of his group's publications, including the Sun.
On the challenges facing media today, Hinton said: "This is a tumultuous time and we have to refashion our business models, but the good news is that never has the media been able to reach more people more instantly with richer content.
"The Times has been around since 1785, yet its journalism has never been more widely read - by nearly 10 million a month online alone, and still climbing. If you have great brands and great content, that is pretty well all that life is about."