The Chicago Maroon - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

The University of Chicago has produced a number of notable journalists and writers, many of whom were Chicago Maroon staffers.

• David Auburn (A.B. 1991) Pulitzer prize and Tony award-winning playwright of Proof
• David Axelrod (A.B. 1977) Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama and chief strategist
• David Brooks (A.B. 1983) Op-Ed Columnist for the New York Times; senior editor of The Weekly Standard; regular commentator on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
• David S. Broder (A.B. 1947, A.M. 1951) Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, wrote a syndicated column for The Washington Post.
• Daniel Hertzberg (A.B. 1968) Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and Managing Editor for The Wall Street Journal
• Ana Marie Cox (A.B. 1994) Editor of Wonkette weblog
• 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)
• Seymour Hersh (A.B. 1958) Pulitzer prize-winning investigative journalist and frequent writer for The New Yorker
• 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
• Carl H. Lavin (A.B. 1979) Managing Editor, Forbes. Former Deputy Managing Editor, news, The Philadelphia Inquirer
• Erin McKean (A.B. 1993) Lexicographer and Principal Editor of The New Oxford American Dictionary, second edition.
• Greg Palast (A.B. 1974, M.B.A. 1976) Progressive investigative journalist
• John Podhoretz (A.B. 1982) Conservative commentator for National Review, New York Post, The Weekly Standard, inter alia; son of Norman Podhoretz
• David Satter Moscow correspondent for the London Financial Times, Author of Age of Delirium: the Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union and Darkness at Dawn: the Rise of the Russian Criminal State
• Joshua Cooper Ramo (A.B. 1992) Foreign Editor of Time magazine, Author "No Visible Horizon," "Beijing Consensus", Managing Director Kissinger Associates
• John Scalzi (A.B. 1991) Hugo award-winning writer, blogger and novelist (Old Man's War)
• Nate Silver (A.B. 2000) Author-editor of webblog FiveThirtyEight
• 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 Wolff Book Award for his memoir Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White (1994)
• John Paul Stevens (A.B. 1941) Third longest serving Justice on the Supreme Court, from 1975–2010
• Ray Suarez (A.M. 1993) Senior Correspondent on PBS news program The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
• Kinsey Wilson (A.B. 1979) Executive Editor of USA Today