List of Bow Tie Wearers - Bow Tie Wearers in The Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries - Entertainers and Media Personalities - Journalists and Commentators

Journalists and Commentators

• Tucker Carlson, conservative American commentator. In 2005 he told the New York Times he had consistently worn bow ties since childhood, but he acknowledged that bow ties often provoke negative reactions, "like a middle finger protruding from your neck." Following his tenure on CNN's Crossfire (Jon Stewart famously knocked the bowtie during his infamous 2004 appearance on the show), he has switched primarily to long neckties or no ties at all.
• John Daly, journalist and host of What's My Line?, was often photographed in a bow tie; evening dress (which included bow ties) was worn by the host and panelists on that game show.
• Sir Robin Day (1923–2000), British television commentator and interviewer; his BBC News obituary said "With his thick horn-rimmed spectacles and trade mark polka-dot bow tie, he was the great inquisitor"
• Troy Dungan, retired chief weather anchor for WFAA-TV (ABC) in Dallas-Fort Worth. Owns approximately 220 bow ties.
• Dave Garroway (1913–1982), U.S. broadcaster, first host of the Today show

• Roger Kimball (born 1953), U.S. art critic and social commentator, co-editor and co-publisher of The New Criterion and publisher of Encounter Books
• Janusz Korwin-Mikke (born 1942), Polish liberal conservative publisher and politician
• Irving R. Levine (1922–2009), the first foreign correspondent accredited in the Soviet Union., the former economics reporter for NBC television, known for his "trademark bow tie", appeared for the first time in public wearing a necktie for the Brown University commencement in 1994. "I needed help in tying it," he later said.
• Russell Lynes (1910–1991), American art historian, photographer, author and editor of Harper's Magazine
• Tom Oliphant, writer for the Boston Globe
• Charles Osgood (born 1933), American broadcast journalist, described as having a "trademark bow tie"
• Gene Shalit (born 1926), U.S. movie critic and regular commentator on the Today show
• Harry Smith (born 1951), TV journalist, wore a "trademark" bow tie during his early career at a Denver station, but stopped wearing them when he joined CBS in 1987, when a network official told him that Charles Osgood was CBS' bow-tie-wearing personality and "We can't have two guys wearing bow ties."
• Jeffrey Tucker, editorial vice president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute
• Timothy White (1952–2002), rock journalist and "debonair dandy who "always wore his bow tie in public" and prided himself in his jaunty bow tie and white buckskin shoes.".
• George Will (born 1941), American conservative syndicated columnist and regular on the This Week Sunday morning program on ABC television. He sometimes appears with a bow tie, sometimes with a long tie, as can be seen on the covers of his books. In 2005, he told the New York Times that whenever he wore a regular necktie, people commented on the absence of his bow tie.