Don Lemon and Sean Hannity

Don Lemon and Sean Hannity attend Mediaite’s Most Influential in News Media celebration.

As Mediaite methods its big fifteenth birthday bash, a look again at our annual events displays just how substantially the media business has modified over a decade and a half of.

Mediaite founder Dan Abrams supplied his thoughts on the momentous anniversary in an essay that, in part, captured one of the snark and skepticism that greeted the website online with the identify you needed to spell twice for individuals who kept calling us “Mediate” manner back in mid-2009.

But by means of December, a surefire sign of the site’s success and affect emerged when the media stars who populated the articles and Energy Grid of the attitudinal upstart confirmed up for our first energy-packed occasion at the Plaza Lodge.

Mediaite’s launch birthday party used to be coated by using Vanity Honest, among many others, and integrated friends like Katie Couric, Dan Somewhat, Meredith Vieira, Ann Curry, Hoda Kotb, Ali Velshi, Nancy Grace, Brian Stelter, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Willie Geist, and Cindy Adams. It’s a testament to the site’s longevity that one of the then-hot careers have cooled in the intervening 15 years.

Due to the fact then, the annual Mediaite Most Influential in News Media listing has develop into the occasion for an annual gala (pandemics allowing) that pulls a shining galaxy of stars — it’s also a rare adventure that puts folks collectively whom chances are you’ll not otherwise predict to look any place close to one some other.

In 2018 and 2019, in the technology when our festivities were held at Fred’s at Barneys after which-President Donald Trump dominated conversations between media trade bigwigs, our annual bash used to be attended by means of Diana Sawyer, Megyn Kelly, George Stephanopoulos, Sean Hannity, Chris Cuomo,  Jeff Zucker, George Conway, Jim Acosta, Don Lemon, Brian Kilmeade, Bill Hemmer, Ari Melber, Preet Bharara, Ann Coulter, Pat Kiernan, Juan Williams, Jay Sures, Andy Lack, Phil Griffin, Jessica Tarlov, Harris Faulkner, and Anthony Scaramucci.

The annual birthday celebration took a break for a couple of years because of the pandemic, but was once back in force in 2022. By way of that point, the media business had again modified drastically. Chris Licht, now operating CNN, turned up amongst different giant media stars whose careers had taken main turns, together with Megyn Kelly, who via then had exited each Fox and NBC to begin her personal impartial media undertaking. Kaitlan Collins had simply taken the chair on the sick-fated CNN This Morning, capping a marvelous upward thrust from White House reporter to famous person host at CNN. She would leap over that pace bump and be named a prime time anchor at the community within months. Sean Spicer had left the Trump White Home and was working as a number at Newsmax. John Avlon, who led the Day by day Beast for 5 years, had exited for a web hosting job at CNN — and is now working for Congress out on eastern Long Island. Other attendees included Sunny Hostin, Ari Melber, Invoice Hemmer, Jim Acosta, Jay Sures, Vicky Ward, Kennedy, Steve Doocy, Brian Stelter, Tara Palmeri, Elie Honig, Oliver Darcy, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Charles Payne, Julie Banderas, and Invoice O’Reilly.

This 12 months, Mediaite is pulling out all the stops with a fifteenth-anniversary bash that figures to be our greatest yet.

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