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 network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognises neither pity nor pitilessness.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)