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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Famous quotes containing the word journalism:
“In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.”
—Harold Evans (b. 1928)