List of University of Chicago Alumni - Journalism

Journalism

• Rick Atkinson (A.M. 1976) - Four-time Pulitzer Prize winner.
• David Blum (A.B. 1977) - Editor-in-Chief of the Village Voice (2006–present).
• David Broder (A.B. 1947, A.M. 1951) - Pulitzer Prize winner for commentary (1973); political correspondent and columnist for The Washington Post.
• David Brooks (A.B. 1983) - Noted political commentator; columnist for the New York Times; senior editor of The Weekly Standard; regular commentator on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
• Ana Marie Cox (A.B. 1994) - liberal columnist, founding Editor of the Wonkette weblog, correspondent for Air America Media.
• Roger Ebert (X. 1970) - Pulitzer Prize winner for film criticism (1975); columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times.
• Thomas Frank (A.M. 1989, Ph.D. 1994) - Editor-in-chief of The Baffler; author of The Conquest of Cool (1997) and What's the Matter with Kansas? (2004).
• Katharine Graham (A.B. 1938) - Head of the Washington Post for over two decades; Pulitzer Prize winner for her memoir Personal History (1998).
• Jan Crawford Greenburg (J.D. 1993) - Legal correspondent for ABC News.
• Nathan Hare (A.M. 1957, Ph.D. 1962) - Author, activist, and sociologist; founding publisher of The Black Scholar, later cited as, "the most important journal devoted to black issues since the Crisis" by the New York Times.
• Seymour Hersh (A.B. 1958) - Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author, most famous for exposing the My Lai Massacre, which greatly changed public opinion of the Vietnam War; frequent contributor to The New Yorker.
• Hamilton Morris - recreational & psychedelic drug journalist working for Vice
• Daniel Hertzberg (A.B. 1968) - Pulitzer Prize winner 1988; Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal.
• Dave Kehr (A.B. 1975) - Film critic for The New York Times.
• Harvey Levin (J.D. 1975) - Former investigator reporter, Managing Editor of TMZ.com.
• Roderick MacLeish (A.B. 1947) - National Public Radio political commentator; journalist and author.
• John G. Morris (A.B. 1937) - Photoeditor for Life, Ladies' Home Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, National Geographic
• Greg Palast (A.B. 1974, M.B.A. 1976) - Progressive investigative journalist.
• John Podhoretz (A.B. 1982) - Conservative commentator for the National Review, the New York Post, and The Weekly Standard.
• Joshua Cooper Ramo (A.B. 1992) - Formerly Foreign Editor, TIME; Managing Director, Kissinger Associates
• David E. Reed (A.B. 1946) - Roving Editor, Reader's Digest. Author: "111 Days in Stanleyville" (Harper & Row, NY, 1965); "Up Front in Vietnam" (Funk & Wagnalls, NY, 1967); "Save the Hostages," (Bantam, NY, 1988).
• Edward Rothstein (Ph.D. 1994) - Cultural critic at The New York Times; former music critic at the New Republic and The New York Times.
• Nate Silver (A.B. 2000) - Sabermetrician and inventor of PECOTA; writer for Baseball Prospectus; and founder of FiveThirtyEight.com.
• Robert B. Silvers (A.B. 1947) - Co-founding editor of The New York Review of Books.
• Brent Staples (A.M. 1976, Ph.D. 1982) - Editorial writer for The New York Times (1990–present); winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for his memoir Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White (1994).
• Bret Stephens (A.B. 1995) - Writer, editorialist, and member of the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board.
• Ray Suarez (A.M. 1993) - Senior correspondent on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
• Kenneth Allen Taylor (Ph.D. 1984) - Co-host of radio program Philosophy Talk; Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University.
• Neda Ulaby (A.M. 1996) - National Public Radio reporter.