Columbia Daily Spectator - Notable Spec Alumni

Notable Spec Alumni

• David Alpern, former senior writer and current contributing editor for Newsweek
• Lou Antonelli, Texas-based science fiction and fantasy author
• R.W. Apple, senior staff writer for The New York Times, serving as a foreign correspondent for over 30 years
• Roone Arledge, sportscaster and head of ABC News; created 20/20 and Nightline in addition to Monday Night Football
• Chris Beam, Slate reporter and co-founder of IvyGate
• Naftali Bendavid political reporter for The Wall Street Journal and author of The Thumpin': How Rahm Emanuel and the Democrats Learned to Be Ruthless and Ended the Republican Revolution
• Arnold Beichman, conservative commentator
• Damien Bona, former Daily Spectator film critic, film historian and co-author of "Inside Oscar: The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards"
• Katherine Boo, writer for The New Yorker and winner of the Pulitzer Prize
• Marcus Brauchli, executive editor of the Washington Post and former managing editor of the Wall Street Journal
• Robert Neil Butler, geriatrician
• Ben Casselman, energy reporter for The Wall Street Journal, currently covering the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
• Bennett Cerf, co-founder of Random House
• Ariana Cha, The Washington Post
• Elizabeth Cohen, CNN reporter
• Matthew Cooper, Portfolio columnist
• Matthew Continetti, writer at The Weekly Standard
• I.A.L. Diamond, screenwriter
• Morris Dickstein, noted literary critic and professor at CUNY
• Joe Ferullo, Vice President of Programming and Development for CBS Paramount Domestic Television
• Max Frankel, former executive editor of The New York Times
• Ruth Franklin, senior literary editor at The New Republic
• Robert Friedman, editor-at-large at Bloomberg
• Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
• Robert Giroux, publisher
• Ralph J. Gleason, music critic
• Alfred Harcourt, publisher
• Reed Harris, expelled for 20 days, author of King Football, journalist, civil servant, target of McCarthyism
• Langston Hughes, poet, novelist and playwright
• Dan Janison, reporter and columnist for New York Newsday
• Jack Kerouac, Beat Generation novelist
• Bob Klapisch, sportswriter for The Record
• Vi Kyuin Wellington Koo, Chinese diplomat
• Adam B. Kushner, senior writer for Newsweek International
• Tony Kushner, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright; author of Angels in America
• John R. MacArthur, publisher of Harper's magazine
• Dienda Madiq, music promoter
• Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Academy award-winning movie director
• Sam Marchiano, sportscaster, currently for MLB.com
• Michael Mukasey, former US Attorney General
• Michael Musto, New York City journalist and media gadfly
• Bernard W. Nussbaum, former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton
• Jim Ogle, longtime sportswriter for The Star-Ledger and chronicler of the New York Yankees
• Jed Perl, author and art critic of The New Republic
• J-Pizzle, well-known rapper
• Joshua Prager, author and previous special senior projects reporter for the Wall Street Journal
• Ted Rall, political cartoonist
• Roger Rubin, sportswriter, New York Daily News
• Rob Saliterman, former spokesman for former President George W. Bush
• Nicholas Schifrin, Pakistan correspondent for ABC News
• Warren St. John, New York Times reporter and author
• Nick Summers, Newsweek reporter and co-founder of IvyGate
• Lee C. Townsend, News Editor, CBS Evening News (Cronkite & Rather)
• Dick Wald, former president of NBC
• Steven Waldman, journalist and founder of Beliefnet.com
• Michael Waldman, speechwriter and advisor for President Bill Clinton
• Sharon Waxman, New York Times reporter
• James Wechsler, chief editor of the New York Post
• Lis Wiehl, legal commentator for Fox News
• Herman Wouk, author
• Paul Zimmerman, columnist for Sports Illustrated (as "Dr. Z")