Journalism
- David Brinkley (1920–2003), television newscaster, host of ABC-TV's This Week with David Brinkley from 1981 to 1996 and also co-anchor of the Huntley-Brinkley Report nightly newscast on NBC-TV from 1956 to 1970 (Wilmington)
- Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush (born 1952), American television's first African-American prime-time weather anchor (Greensboro)
- Howard Cosell (1918–1995), sports journalist and long-time star of ABC-TV's Monday Night Football, also commentator for many of the greatest fights of boxing legend Muhammad Ali (Winston-Salem)
- Josephus Daniels (1862–1948), Founder of the Raleigh News and Observer newspaper, also served as United States Secretary of the Navy from 1913 to 1921 under President Woodrow Wilson (Washington)
- David Gergen (born May 9, 1942), journalist, editor-at-large for U.S. News & World Report, also serves as Director of The Center for Public Leadership at The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, also a Senior Political Analyst at CNN (Durham)
- Al Hunt (born 1942), journalist, managing editor for Bloomberg News, long-time regular panelist on CNN's Capital Gang news program (Winston-Salem)
- Carl Kassel (born 1934), radio personality for NPR and long-time radio journalist (Goldsboro, North Carolina)
- Charles Kuralt (1934–1997), journalist and television personality (Wilmington)
- Jennifer Loven, journalist and White House press correspondent for the Associated Press (Matthews)
- Edward R. Murrow (1908–1965), legendary CBS News journalist and pioneer of television (near Greensboro)
- Charlie Rose (born 1942), interviewer and journalist; host of a popular late-night talk show on PBS-TV (Henderson)
- Vermont C. Royster (1914–1996), editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal from 1957 to 1970 and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes (Raleigh)
- Stuart Scott (born 1965), Anchor of SportsCenter from 1995 until present. Graduated from University of North Carolina
- Wilbert Tatum (1933–2009), newspaper executive who variously served as the editor, publisher, chairman and chief executive officer of the [[New York Amsterdam
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