Lauer, O’Reilly, Walters, Couric and More Feted at Media Bigs Party

By Chris Ariens 

New York media turned out for a Hollywood Reporter party last night. The Four Seasons was packed with the media hoi polloi for THR’s 35 Most Powerful People in Media event.

As we mentioned earlier, Fox News co-founder and chairman Roger Ailes — one of the 35 — was there. Also honored from Fox News, Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity; from NBC, News president Steve Capus, “Today” EP Jim Bell, co-anchors Matt Lauer (on the cover of the THR issue) and Ann Curry and “Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams; from CBS, News chairman Jeff Fager and News president David Rhodes, “Evening News” anchor Scott Pelley, “This Morning” host Charlie Rose and “60 Minutes” correspondent Steve Kroft; from MSNBC, president Phil Griffin, Mika Brzezinski & Joe Scarborough and Rachel Maddow; from CNN Anderson Cooper and Piers Morgan. And with the biggest group of honorees from ABC, Katie Couric, ABC SVP James Goldston, and anchors Robin Roberts and George Stephanopoulos, “World News” anchor Diane Sawyer, Barbara Walters and ABC News president Ben Sherwood.

Here’s a gallery with more images from the night.

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