New York (PTI): In the club of women with power, media personalities seem to have found a firm feet with at least one of them featuring in every seven names on the latest list of the world's 100 Most Powerful Women.

Moreover, it is correspondents and news anchors who account for nearly half of about a dozen media persons in this list. Rest of them include top executives like CEOs and Chairperson, including celebrity TV-show anchor Oprah Winfrey.

If people associated with broadcasting companies that are into the business of entertainment, such as MTV, are also included there are a total of 15 media executives and personalities on Forbes's 100 Most Powerful Women list.

Among these 15, Marjorie Scardino, CEO of UK-based Pearson Plc that publishes Financial Times newspaper, is the most powerful with her 20th rank.

Scardino is followed by Disney-ABC Television Group's President Anne Sweeney at 30th rank, CBS Paramount TV Entertainment Group President Nancy Tellem at 32nd, Finivest Group and Mondadori Group Chairperson Marina Berlusconi at 34th and Harpo Chairperson Oprah Winfrey at 36th.

Daughter of three-time Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, 32-years old Marina chairs her father's holding company, Fininvest Group, as well as Italy's largest book and magazine publisher Mondadori Group.

Besides, Sony Pictures Entertainment Co-Chairperson Amy Pascal ranks 54th, Starcom MediaVest Group CEO Laura Desmond 57th and MTV Networks CEO Judy McGrath at 60th.

Among newspersons, NBC News's Today Show Co-Anchor Meredith Vieira has been ranked at 61st, followed by CBS News' CBS Evening News Anchor Katie Couric at 62nd.

Besides, ABC News Correspondent Barbara Walters has been ranked 63rd, while the same channel's Good Morning America Anchor Diane Sawyer is at 65th and CNN's Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour is at 91st position.

Others on the list include Time Inc Chairperson and CEO Ann Moore (93rd) and The New York Times Co President and CEO Janet L Robinson (83rd).

About NBC News's Today show co-anchor Meredith Vieira, the magazine said that she also hosts 160 of the 175 annual episodes of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

Besides, CBS News' Katie Couric, ranked 62nd, made history in 2006 when she became the country's first female evening-news anchor, Forbes noted. Previously, she was a CNN political reporter and a Pentagon reporter for NBC.

About Barbara Walters, Forbes said she is the first woman to co-host a network news programme and her memoir, Audition, became an instant bestseller earlier this year.

The report further said that CNN's award-winning correspondent Christiane Amanpur has reported on nearly every major news story CNN has covered in recent years, including Hurricane Katrina, the first Iraqi elections and the bombings of the London subway and Madrid, Spain, trains.

She has also covered wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as the conflict in the Balkans and the first Persian Gulf war.

Time Inc CEO Ann Moore, Forbes said, was the founding editor of Sports Illustrated for Kids and oversees the largest magazine publisher in the US. A 30-year Time Inc veteran, she, would leave the company after her contract expires in 2010.

ABC News' Good Morning America show anchor Diane Sawyer, ranked 65th, is a former weather reporter and interviewed Barack Obama in January.