The owner (and former editor and publisher) of liberal stalwart The Nation, Navasky is also chairman of the Columbia Journalism Review.

A New York native and Swarthmore grad, Navasky made his first foray into publishing as a student at Yale Law School when he founded a satirical "leisurely quarterly" called the Monocle. Navasky paid his dues at the New York Times Magazine for nearly a decade before signing on at The Nation in 1978. In 1985, ownership of the publication was turned over to Arthur Carter, who held on to the title until 1995, when he sold the perennial money-loser to Navasky and a handful of other investors. Shortly after the sale, Navasky transitioned out of the top editorial job and handed over editorial responsibilities to Katrina Vanden Heuvel. Now officially publisher emeritus, Navasky no longer oversees day-to-day activities at the fabled liberal weekly. Nowadays, Navasky mainly spends his time overseeing the magazine program at the Columbia School of Journalism, where he also runs the small but influential Columbia Journalism Review.

Navasky has authored several books over the course of his career, including Kennedy Justice, about the career of Robert F. Kennedy, Naming Names, which concerned Joe McCarthy and earned a National Book Award; and a memoir entitled A Matter of Opinion. [Image via Getty, with Maer Roshan]