Journalism and Media
| Name | Class year(s) | Degree(s) | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Begala, PaulPaul Begala | 1983 1990 |
B.A. J.D. |
Former host of CNN's Crossfire |
- Drew Berry — Vice President and General Manager WMAR-TV
- Liz Carpenter — author and former press secretary to First Lady Lady Bird Johnson
- Catherine Crier — television news anchor
- Walter Cronkite — WWII war correspondent and CBS News anchor
- Rip Esselstyn — author and health activist
- Jane Hall — Fox News Channel pundit
- Alireza Jafarzadeh — Foreign Affairs Analyst for Fox News Television and other major TV networks, author of The Iran Threat: President Ahmadinejad and the Coming Nuclear Crisis (Palgrave MacMillan: 2008).
- Michael Jenkins — sports anchor/reporter
- Bill Moyers — author, journalist, and former press secretary to President Lyndon B. Johnson
- Betty Nguyen — CNN anchor
- Ben Sargent — Pulitzer Prize winner and editorial cartoonist at Austin American-Statesman
- Elizabeth Sorrell — society columnist for the Laredo Morning Times and 48-year educator
- Liz Smith — gossip columnist
- Stephanie Trong — journalist, Jane Executive Editor
- Karen Tumulty — journalist, Time National Political Correspondent
- Ben Wedeman — CNN Senior International Correspondent
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Famous quotes containing the words journalism and/or media:
“In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public conciousness has just swung from Greed to Compassion and from Tex-Mex to meatballs.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)