List of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism people

Following is a list of notable alumni and faculty of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, a graduate school of the American Columbia University, located in New York City, New York.

A–G

• Adamu Adamu, minister of education in Nigeria
• Margot Adler, anchor, National Public Radio
• Ebenezer Ako-Adjei, Ghanaian politician; a founding father of Ghana; member of the Big Six
• Daniel Arnall, executive producer for news, Bloomberg Television; former senior producer for business coverage, ABC News
• Amotz Asa-El, senior commentator, former executive editor, Jerusalem Post
• Spencer Bailey, editor-in-chief, Surface
• Russ Baker, investigative reporter, founder of the Real News Project and editor-in-chief of whowhatwhy.org
• David W. Ball, novelist and short-story writer
• Wayne Barrett, senior editor and investigative reporter, Village Voice
• Ralph Begleiter, distinguished journalist in residence, University of Delaware
• Elizabeth Benjamin, political reporter, Daily News
• Robert Henry Best, propagandist for Nazi Germany
• Ryan Blitstein, freelance business reporter
• Louis Boccardi, retired CEO, Associated Press; Freedom Forum Foundation
• Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist
• Pat Buchanan, Republican party strategist, presidential advisor, presidential candidate, conservative columnist, television commentator
• Elizabeth Bumiller, correspondent, The New York Times
• Greg Burke, senior communications adviser with Vatican's Secretariat of State (2012–)
• Marcy Burstiner, professor of journalism
• Robert Campbell, architect and journalist; former architecture critic, The Boston Globe
• Bennett Cerf, co-founder of Random House (deceased)
• Selina Cheng, chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association
• David Cho, journalist for The Washington Post
• Gina Chua, executive editor, Reuters
• Leah Hager Cohen, writer, formerly of Houghton Mifflin
• Lisa R. Cohen, Emmy-winning television producer, author
• Richard Cohen, former reporter and columnist, Washington Post
• Sheila Coronel, academic dean at Columbia Journalism School; winner of the 2003 Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and the Creative Communication Arts
• Judith Crist, film and television critic; professor, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
• May Cutler, publisher, founder of Tundra Books; first Canadian woman to publish children's books; first woman to serve as mayor of Westmount, Quebec
• Sadanand Dhume, author
• Jonathan Dunn-Rankin, actor, television journalist and gay activist
• Barkha Dutt, former managing director, NDTV 24/7, India
• Yashica Dutt, writer
• Jim Dwyer, reporter, The New York Times
• Thomas Byrne Edsall, Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor, Columbia School of Journalism 2006–2014; The Washington Post; contributing op-ed writer, The New York Times
• Eromo Egbejule, foreign correspondent for The Guardian, former editor for Al Jazeera
• Alan Ehrenhalt, senior editor for Governing, contributing writer to The New York Times
• Lolis Eric Elie, journalist, documentary filmmaker; Columbia Graduate School of Journalism "2012 Alumnus of the Year"
• Helen Epstein, arts journalist, author Children of the Holocaust and nine other non-fiction books
• Aatos Erkko, Finnish publishing magnate, owner of Sanoma Corporation, son of foreign minister Eljas Erkko
• Stephan Faris, freelance journalist, has written from Africa and Middle East, primarily for Time magazine
• Howard Fineman, editorial director and reporter for The Huffington Post; MSNBC contributor
• Rob Fishman, co-founder of Niche, a company acquired by Twitter
• Cardinal John P. Foley, Grand Master of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre
• Scottie McKenzie Frasier, author, newspaper editor, suffragist
• Robert Giles, curator, The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University
• David Gonzalez, journalist, The New York Times
• John M. Goshko, M.A., journalist for The Washington Post
• Ellen Louise Graham, journalist at the Wall Street Journal and 1999 Pulitzer Prize finalist
• Mel Gussow, former theatre critic, The New York Times (deceased)

H–M

• LynNell Hancock, education writer; professor, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
• Donna Hanover, co-host, WOR radio morning show; ex-wife of Rudy Giuliani
• Elizabeth Hansen Shapiro, senior research fellow at the school's Tow Center; co-founder of the National Trust for Local News
• Jonathan Harounoff, journalist and Israel's international spokesperson to the United Nations
• Hy Hollinger, entertainment trade editor and journalist (The Hollywood Reporter, Variety)
• Alice Hughes, journalist and syndicated fashion columnist
• Jessica Huseman, editorial director of Votebeat
• Molly Ivins, reporter, author and syndicated political columnist
• Joseph Jackson, assistant drama editor at The New York World and Hollywood screenwriter
• Paul Janensch, former executive editor of The Courier-Journal
• Nigel Jaquiss, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for Willamette Week
• Soterios Johnson, host of NPR’s Morning Edition on WNYC
• Mary Jordan, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Washington Post
• Vinod Jose, former executive editor 2009–2023, The Caravan
• Kwame Karikari, Ghanaian journalist and academic; director general of Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (1982–1984)
• Frederick Kempe, president and chief executive officer, Atlantic Council of the United States
• Peter Kihss, journalist at The New York Times
• Philip Klein
• Steve Kroft, journalist, 60 Minutes
• Madeleine M. Kunin, former governor of Vermont; Marsh scholar-professor at large, University of Vermont; founder of Institute for Sustainable Communities
• Howard Kurtz, media reporter, The Washington Post; host of CNN's "Reliable Sources"
• Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City; contributor, Time magazine; 2004 Edgar Award; finalist for National Book Award
• Bernard Le Grelle, Belgian investigative journalist, political adviser, author, former United Nations expert and public affairs executive
• Joseph Lelyveld, former executive editor and columnist, The New York Times; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author
• Juanita León, Colombian journalist; and founder, La Silla Vacía website
• Paul Leventhal (1938–2007), journalist and nuclear nonproliferation expert
• Flora Lewis, foreign-affairs columnist, The New York Times (deceased)
• Bill Lichtenstein, Peabody Award-winning print and broadcast journalist and documentary producer and president, Lichtenstein Creative Media
• A. J. Liebling, journalist closely associated with The New Yorker from 1935 until his death
• Kathryn Lilley, mystery writer
• Samuel Lubell, journalist, pollster, and political commentator; National Book Award for Nonfiction finalist (1957)
• Robert L. Lynn, president of Louisiana College 1975–1997; former journalist
• Andrea Mackris, CNN producer
• Suzanne Malveaux, White House correspondent, CNN
• Gabriele Marcotti, sports writer
• Mark Mathabane, writer and lecturer
• Eileen McNamara, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, The Boston Globe; professor of journalism at Brandeis University
• John McWethy, former national security correspondent, ABC News (deceased)
• Andrew Meldrum, South African correspondent, The Guardian and The Observer
• Carol Marbin Miller, senior investigative reporter, The Miami Herald
• Janice Min, media executive, oversees Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter, former editor of Us Weekly
• Michele Montas, spokesperson, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; formerly with Radio Haiti
• Alfred de Montesquiou, reporter, laureate of the French Prix Albert Londres, documentary film director
• Walt Mossberg, executive editor, The Verge and co-founder, Re/code
• Ali Mustafa, broadcast journalist, CNBC 2005–2006, Dawn News TV 2006–2009

N–Z

• Alanna Nash, journalist and biographer; Society of Professional Journalists' 1994 National Member of the Year
• Viveca Novak, Washington correspondent for Time; frequent guest on CNN, NBC, PBS, and Fox
• Timothy L. O'Brien, editor, The New York Times Sunday Business section; has written for The Wall Street Journal
• Mirta Ojito, contributor, The New York Times; Pulitzer Prize winner for National Reporting in 2001; professor, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
• Rita Omokha, award-winning journalist and author; adjunct professor, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
• Frederick C. Painton, pulp-fiction author, WWII war correspondent
• Ralph Judson Palmer, California newspaper publisher
• Malini Parthasarathy, former editor, The Hindu
• Natalie Pawelski, journalist and television correspondent
• Basharat Peer, Kashmiri-American journalist, script writer, author, and political commentator; author, Curfewed Night
• Gabe Pressman (1924–2017), long-time New York City reporter
• John Quiñones, ABC News host and correspondent
• Narasimhan Ram, editor-in-chief, The Hindu
• Zoe Ramushu, South Africa-based Zimbabwean writer, director, producer
• Robin Reisig, professor, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
• Gianni Riotta, editor-in-chief of Il Sole 24 Ore, former editor in chief of TG1 (RAI)
• Geraldo Rivera, television reporter and talk show host
• Manuel Rivera-Ortiz, documentary photographer
• Tanya Rivero, anchor, ABC News Now
• B. H. "Johnny" Rogers, former member of both houses of Louisiana State Legislature, faculty member at LSU (deceased)
• Gloria Rojas, television journalist
• James Rosen, journalist and novelist
• Tom Rosenstiel, director, Project for Excellence in Journalism
• Saskia de Rothschild, journalist, director of the Chateau Lafite Rothschild
• Wendy Ruderman, journalist, 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
• Christine Sadler, author, journalist, magazine editor (deceased)
• Dick Schaap, sports journalist, author (deceased)
• Andre Sennwald, New York Times motion picture critic (deceased)
• Evelyn Sharp, real estate businesswoman who owned the Beverly Wilshire Hotel
• Gail Sheehy, author
• Howard Simons, former curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism
• Allan Sloan, columnist and editor-at-large, Fortune Magazine
• Craig S. Smith, Shanghai bureau director of The New York Times and managing director for China
• Olivia Smith, Emmy award-winning journalist
• Sreenath Sreenivasan, professor, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism; technology reporter
• Guy Sterling, journalist and The Star Ledger and historian of Newark, NJ
• Alexander Stille, author; contributor, New York Magazine; San Paolo Professor of International Journalism at Columbia University
• Ron Suskind, author and investigative journalist; former reporter, The Wall Street Journal; Pulitzer Prize winner for Feature Writing in 1995
• Tara Sutton, reporter, filmmaker
• Kosuke Takahashi, journalist, television commentator and former editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Japan
• Maria Luisa Tucker, writer
• Mariana van Zeller, Peabody Award-winning television journalist
• Robert Whitcomb, newspaperman, author
• Emil Wilbekin, author; former editor-in-chief of Vibe and Giant, and editor-at-large of Essence magazine, founder of Native Son Now, Black & gay rights activist
• Doris Willens, journalist, playwright and folk singer in the Baby Sitters
• Valerie Wilson Wesley, author; former executive editor, Essence magazine
• Emily Witt, author, contributor to The New Yorker
• Wayne Worcester, crime novelist; professor of journalism, University of Connecticut
• Paula Yoo, children's and young adult author, journalist and screenwriter

See also

• List of Columbia University people

References