Alumni
Former Alligator staffers work at major newspapers, magazines, and news agencies, including the Miami Herald, the Los Angeles Times, the Florida Times-Union, the Palm Beach Post, the Associated Press, and The New York Times, among others.
Alligator photographer and editor Robert Ellison (1944–1968) died in Vietnam while covering the Battle of Khe Sanh for the newspaper. His work, later published in Newsweek as "The Agony of Khe Sanh," won several posthumous awards.
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| Don Addis | St. Petersburg Times editorial cartoonist; created the long-running series of "Sex Symbols" cartoons in Playboy
Jan Godown Annino National Geographic Children's Books author |
| Charles Edward Bennett (editor 1931) |
U.S. Representative (longest serving in Florida history) |
| Al Burt | Miami Herald writer |
| Rhea Chiles | Wife of Florida Governor Lawton Chiles; Former First Lady of Florida |
| H. G. Davis, Jr. | The Gainesville Sun columnist; Pulitzer Prize winner; longtime UF journalism professor |
| Karen DeYoung | The Washington Post writer and associate editor; Pulitzer Prize winner |
| Brian Doherty | Libertarian writer; Reason magazine senior editor |
| Gregg Doyel | Current writer for CBSSports.com, also worked for the Charlotte Observer and the Miami Herald |
| David Finkel | Washington Post writer; Pulitzer Prize winner |
| Philip Graham | The Washington Post publisher from 1946–1963, husband of Katharine Graham and Washington Post successor |
| Carl Hiaasen | Miami Herald columnist; crime fiction novelist (Tourist Season, Strip Tease, Skinny Dip); Pulitzer Prize winner |
| Ian Johnson (editor Fall 1983) |
The Wall Street Journal writer and Berlin bureau chief; Pulitzer Prize winner |
| Tom Kennedy | Managing editor for multimedia at Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive; former director of photography for National Geographic |
| Mindi Kiernan (editor Fall 1976) |
Former Knight Ridder vice president |
| Michael Koretzky | Current journalist, editor, and writer |
| David Lawrence Jr. (editor Spring 1963) |
Former publisher of the Miami Herald and Detroit Free Press |
| Samuel Proctor | Historian and longtime UF history professor; University Historian; Florida history, and oral history |
| Eddie Sears (editor Fall 1966) |
Former Palm Beach Post editor |
| Adam Yeomans (editor Spring 1983) |
Current Kentucky/Tennessee bureau chief for the Associated Press |
| Ed Barber |
Former general manager, The Independent Florida Alligator & president, Campus Communications, Inc. 1976- 2007; Lifetime Achievement in Journalism Award,
Society of Professional Journalists, Distinguished Alumnus Award, University of Florida, Lifetime Membership for Meritorious Service to the Press of Florida & the Florida Press Association |
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