We might be living through “the twilight of the press baron”, but Mathias Döpfner is bucking the trend, says New York magazine. The six-foot-seven former music journalist turned billionaire CEO of Axel Springer is the “swashbuckling type of news boss” who has vanished everywhere else – and he is bent
The last of the press barons
Mar 10, 2023
2 minutes
“Döpfner concluded he would never be a great musician, so became a critic instead”
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