News
| Name | Class year | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jill Abramson (born 1954) | College 1976 | Executive editor of The New York Times | |
| Melissa Block (born 1962) | College 1983 | Host of NPR's All Things Considered | |
| Ben Bradlee (born 1921) | College 1944 | Washington Post managing editor during Watergate Scandal | |
| James Brown (born 1951) | College 1973 | Sportscaster | |
| Susan Chira | College 1980 | foreign editor of The New York Times since 2004 | |
| Kevin Corke | HKS 2004 | Journalist, NBC News | |
| Jim Cramer (born 1955) | College 1977; Law 1984 | Television host | |
| E. J. Dionne (born 1952) | College 1973 | Washington Post columnist | |
| Lou Dobbs (born 1945) | College 1967 | Television host | |
| William Emerson (1923–2009) | College 1948 | covered the civil rights era as Newsweek's first bureau chief assigned to cover the Southern United States; editor in chief of The Saturday Evening Post. | |
| James Fallows (born 1949) | College 1970 | Journalist | |
| Amy Goodman (born 1957) | College 1984 | liberal political commentator, founder of Democracy Now! | |
| Donald E. Graham (born 1945) | College 1966 | The Washington Post Company chairman and CEO | |
| Aaron Harber | MPA | Political analyst for CBS 4 KCNC-TV, host of The Aaron Harber Show on Colorado Public Broadcasting KBDI-TV Channel 12 | |
| Walter Isaacson (born 1952) | College 1974 | Former CNN chairman and CEO, managing editor of TIME, author | |
| Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr. (born 1946) | College 1968; Law 1974 | Washington Post publisher and CEO | |
| Michael Kinsley (born 1951) | College 1972; Law 1977 | Journalist | |
| Nicholas D. Kristof (born 1960) | College 1981 | New York Times reporter and columnist; two-time Pulitzer Prize winner | |
| William Kristol (born 1952) | College 1973; Ph.D. 1979 | Editor of The Weekly Standard | |
| Melissa Lee | College 1995 | News Anchor of CNBC | |
| Soledad O'Brien (born 1966) | College 1987 | Television host | |
| Suzanne Malveaux (born 1966) | College 1987 | CNN correspondent | |
| Thomas Oliphant | College 1967 | Boston Globe columnist | |
| Bill O'Reilly (born 1949) | HKS 1996 | Journalist and Conservative political commentator; host of The O'Reilly Factor | |
| Silvia Poggioli (born 1946) | College 1968 | foreign correspondent, NPR | |
| John Reed (1887–1920) | College 1910 | Journalist, activist | |
| Frank Rich (born 1949) | College 1971 | New York Times columnist | |
| Stephen Sackur (born 1964) | HKS ? | BBC journalist and political commentator; host of HARDtalk | |
| Peter Sagal (born 1965) | College 1987 | Public radio host of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, playwright, screenwriter, actor | |
| Bill Schneider | A.M. 1969, Ph.D. 1972 | Journalist, political analyst | |
| Lara Setrakian | 2004 | Journalist, political analyst | |
| Sam Sifton (born 1966) | College 1988 | New York Times Chief Restaurant Critic | |
| Andrew Sullivan (born 1963) | HKS 1986; Ph.D. 1990 | Blogger, journalist | |
| Katharine Weymouth (born 1966) | College 1988 | Washington Post publisher | |
| William Lindsay White | College 1924 | Journalist | |
| Jessica Yellin | College | Journalist | |
| Mort Zuckerman (born 1937) | Law 1962 | U.S. News & World Report editor-in-chief, New York Daily News owner and publisher |
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Famous quotes containing the word news:
“There is no news in fear
but in the end it’s fear
that drowns you.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Good news about someone never gets past the door, but bad news will travel a thousand leagues away.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The newspapers, especially those in the East, are amazingly superficial and ... a large number of news gatherers are either cynics at heart or are following the orders and the policies of the owners of their papers.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)