| John Lowell Jr. |
1778 |
Federalist leader & pamphleteer [c1795-1815]
known as "the Boston Rebel" & "the Roxbury Farmer";
Agricultural reformer; president, Massachusetts Agricultural Society;
benefactor, Massachusetts General Hospital |
| William Tudor |
1786 |
Cofounder & editor, North American Review
[1815]; coiner of the phrase "the Athens of America" as a Boston
epithet; US consul, Lima [1824-27], US chargé d'affaires, Rio de Janeiro
[1827-30] |
| Sidney Edwards Morse |
1802 |
Inventor, the bathometer; founder, conservative
Protestant religious newspapers in Boston & New York |
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker |
1816 |
Founder & editor, Southern Literary Journal
[1835-37], Southern Quarterly Review [1842-47], Whitaker's Magazine: The
Rights of the South [1850-53], The New Orleans Monthly Review [1866-81];
served in Confederate Quarter Master Department [1862-65] |
| Theodore Dwight Weld |
1820 |
Abolitionist; editor, The Emancipator [1836-40];
corresponding secretary, New York Anti-Slavery Society [1837-43]; coauthor,
"American Slavery As It Is" [1839], with the exception of
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" regarded as the most influential anti-slavery
publication in the US |
| Nathaniel Parker Willis |
1823 |
Journalist, editor & poet; the highest-paid
magazine writer of his day; chronicler of manners & mores in the US &
Europe during the 1830s & 40s; author, "American Scenery"
[1840]; financial backer, promoter & publisher of Edgar Allen Poe,
including "The Raven" [1845]; founder & editor, The Home
Journal [1846-67], which continued into the 21st century as Town &
Country |
| William Hayes Ward |
1852 |
Orientalist & authority on ancient Babylonian
seals; organizer, Wolfe Expedition to Babylonia [1884-85]; president,
American Oriental Society [1890-94, 1909-10]; editor, New York Independent
[1869-], editor-in-chief [1896-1913]; |
| William Tompkins Comstock |
1861 |
Publisher of architectural periodicals & house
pattern books; promoter of the Queen Anne Style in architecture &
interior decoration; publisher & editor, Architect & Builders Journal
[1882-1910]; "Modern Architectural Designs & Details" [1881];
"American Cottages" [1883] |
| Alice Stone Blackwell |
1867 |
Feminist, journalist & human rights activist;
leader in the women's suffrage movement; editor, Woman's Journal [1881-1918];
champion of Armenian rights & literature [1890s]; organizer, Society of
American Friends of Russian Freedom; translator of Armenian, Russian, Yiddish
& Spanish poetry; author, "Lucy Stone: Pioneer of Woman's
Rights" [1930] |
| Talcott Williams |
1869 |
Journalist; editor, Philadelphia Press [1882-1912];
1st director, Columbia School of Journalism [1912-] |
| Anna Laurens Dawes |
1870 |
Journalist, author & center of literary life in
Pittsfield; activist in prison reform, child labor legislation,
contra-women's suffrage; author "The Modern Jew" [1884], "How
We Are Governed" [1885], "Charles Sumner" [1892] |
| Edward Curtis Smith |
1871 |
Publisher, St. Albans Messenger; governor of Vermont
[1898-1900] |
| Victor Lawson |
1872 |
Publisher & editor, Chicago Daily News
[1876-1925]; under Lawson's leadership, the Daily News had the largest paid
circulation of any US newspaper & pioneered overseas news bureaus; early
president, Associated Press; under Lawson, the Daily News received the
Pulitzer Prize for Reporting in 1925 |
| Edward S. Martin |
1872 |
A founder of the Harvard Lampoon [1876]; founder
& 1st editor, Life humor magazine [1883-1936]; editorial writer, Harper's
Monthly [1920-25] |
| James Stetson Metcalfe |
1875 |
Drama critic for Life, Judge & Wall Street
Journal; in 1906 barred from NY theatres because of his criticism - won the
right to enter in famous court case |
| Howard Mutchler |
1880 |
Pennsylvania journalist & politician; publisher
& editor, Easton Daily Express; Democratic congressman [1893-95, 1901-03] |
| W. Morton Fullerton |
1882 |
Paris correspondent, London Times; expert on
international relations; prominent in the American ex-pat European literary
scene [Edith Wharton's paramour, 1907-08] |
| Vance C. McCormick |
1891 |
Newspaper publisher & progressive politician;
publisher, Patriot Newspaper, Harrisburg, PA; mayor of Harrisburg [1902-05];
chairman, Democratic National Committee [1916-19]; ran Woodrow Wilson
reelection campaign [1916]; chair, War Trade Board [1917-19]; member, US
Peace Commission [1919] |
| Henry Johnson Fisher |
1892 |
Publisher; president, McCall Corporation [1917-45]
& Harper Brothers; president, English Speaking Union [1936-47] |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs |
1894 |
Fantasy & science fiction writer, including the
Tarzan novels [1912-40s]; oldest US war-zone correspondent, WWII; namesake,
Burroughs Crater, Mars [his Tarzana Ranch namesake of Tarzana, California] |
| Julian Starkweather Mason |
1894 |
Journalist; managing editor, Chicago Evening Post
[ca.1915-], NY Tribune [1922-26], NY Post [1926-] |
| Edward C. Carter |
1896 |
Secretary, YMCA India, Paris, London [1902-22]; with
world affairs periodical Inquiry [1922-41]; organized, US-Russia War Relief
[World War II]; leader, Institute for Pacific Relations [1926-48] which
became a focus of Congressional scrutiny by Senator McCarthy and others in
the early 1950s; Provost, New School for Social Research, New York [1948-50]
& director, division of International Studies [1950-] |
| Granville Roland Fortescue |
1896 |
Rough Rider, Spanish-American War [1898] with his
cousin, Theodore Roosevelt; US military attaché with Japanese Army,
Russo-Japanese War [1904-05]; military aide to President Roosevelt; war
correspondent during Riff War [1909] & World War I; explorer, Orinoco
River, Venezuela & Brazil [1914]; author, "At the Front with Three
Armies" [1914], "France Bears the Burden" [1917] |
| Eltinge F. Warner |
1897 |
Magazine publisher, literary figure &
conservationist; as publisher of Field & Stream [1906-50], a force in
game conservation; maker of wildlife films [1920-23]; as publisher of Smart
Set [1914-22], Warner hired George Jean Nathan & H.L. Menken as editors,
who published James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald; founder & publisher The
Black Mask [1920-], a crime pulp, publisher of Dashiell Hammett; ; Fitzgerald
made use of his publisher's name for the character Eltynge Reardon in
"The Beautiful & Damned" [1922] |
| Robert W. Ruhl |
1899 |
Publisher & editor, Medford, Oregon Mail
Tribune; winner, Pulitzer Prize for Public Service [1934] |
| Frederick L. Collins |
1900 |
Publisher & editor, McClure's Magazine [1911-29] |
| John Nesmith Greely |
1902 |
Brigadier General; member, Pershing general staff
& commander, 1st Division, WWI; chief, military mission to Iran, WWII;
attaché & diplomat, Geneva, Brazil; military analyst, author &
journalist; editor, Artillery Journal |
| Katherine Woods |
1905 |
Translator of "The Little Prince," author
of mystery novels, travel articles & books, "The Other Chateau
Country" [1935] |
| Elizabeth Deeble |
1906 |
Relief work volunteer & correspondent, Spanish
Civil War [ca.1936-39] |
| Robert Hallowell |
1906 |
Editor & publisher, "The New Republic"
[1914-25]; artist/watercolorist [ca.1925-39] |
| Meigs Frost |
1907 |
Crusading New Orleans investigative reporter, helped
bring down Huey Long & his machine [1930s] |
| Negley Farson |
1910 |
Foreign correspondent in early Soviet Russia,
pre-independence India, Nazi Germany, London during WWII; adventurer &
fisherman; author, "Sailing Across Europe" [1926], "The Way of
a Transgressor" [1936], "Bomber's Moon" [1941], "Going
Fishing" [1946], "The Lost World of the Caucasus" [1958] |
| Alexander Lewis Jackson |
1910 |
General manager, The Chicago Defender [1925-], the
nation's most influential black weekly; president, board of trustees,
Provident Hospital, Chicago's 1st hospital run by and for African-Americans |
| Joseph Garland |
1911 |
Pediatrician; editor, New England Journal of
Medicine [1947-67], transforming it into an international leader in medical
journalism |
| Henry W. Clune |
1913 |
Columnist [1914-69], Rochester Democrat &
Chronicle, chronicler of Rochester life |
| Esther "Ted" Kilton |
1915 |
Architect; editor & director, "Home
Builders Service Bureau," House Beautiful Magazine [1932-] |
| Jean Lyon |
1920 |
Foreign correspondent covering the "fall of
China" [ca.1945-50]; author, "When the communists took China"
Harper's February 1950, "Chester Bowles, new-style diplomat"
Harper's November 1952; author "Just Half a World Away: My Search for
the New India" [1954] |
| Henry Cutler Wolfe |
1920 |
War correspondent, author & lecturer on foreign
affairs, influential during the early years of WWII |
| Irving E Rogers Jr. |
1921 |
Publisher, Lawrence Eagle-Tribune [1982-98];
recipient, Pulitzer Prize for General Reporting [1988] |
| Edward S. Skillin |
1921 |
Editor & publisher, Commonweal, oldest Catholic
journal of opinion in US [1938-98] |
| Alan Barth |
1924 |
Editorial writer, Washington Post [1943-72]; as
"the liberal conscience of Washington" advocated for civil rights
& civil liberties; opponent of segregation and McCarthyism; author of
"The Loyalty of Free Men" [1951], "Price of Liberty"
[1961], & "The Rights of Free Men" [1984] |
| George F. Vanderschmidt |
1924 |
Journalist; managing editor, Newsweek [1942-46]
& London correspondent [1946-52]; author, "What the English Think
of Us" [1948] |
| Lilian Grosvenor Coville |
1925 |
Traveler in Manchuria [1920s]; author, National
Geographic articles on Manchuria [1930s] |
| Ralph Delahaye Paine Jr. |
1925 |
Publisher & managing editor, Fortune [1941-67];
vice-president, TIME, Inc. [1953-]; publisher, Architectural Forum [1954-63];
|
| Suzanne Loizeaux |
1926 |
Publisher & editor, Plymouth Record, New
Hampshire; member, New Hampshire General Assembly [1952-] |
| Marshall MacDuffie |
1927 |
Chief, UN relief mission in the Ukraine [1945-];
friend to Nikita Khrushchev; author of books & articles on the Soviet
Union, including "The Red Carpet: 10,000 Miles through Russia"
[1955] |
| W. Davis Taylor |
1927 |
Publisher/chairman, The Boston Globe [1955-81];
recipient, Fuess Award [1974] |
| Franz J. "Inge" Ingelfinger |
1928 |
Gastroenterologist, medical educator and
journalist; editor, New England Journal of Medicine [1967-77]; creator of the
"Ingelfinger Rule" [1970] regarding biomedical publishing;
recipient, Fuess Award [1980] |
| John Lardner |
1929 |
Sports writer, war correspondent; author
"Southwest Passage: the Yanks in the Pacific" [1943] |
| Despina Plakias Messinesi |
1929 |
Editor, Vogue magazine [1941-92] |
| Roul Tunley |
1930 |
Journalist & author focused on social policies
issues; author, "Kids, Crime & Chaos" [1962], "The
America's Health Scandal" [1966], "To Be a Journalist" [2005] |
| Norman Cahners |
1932 |
Founder, president & chair, Cahners Publishing
[1946-86], leading trade magazine publishers; a hammer-through champion at
Harvard, Cahners refused to try out for the Berlin Olympics [1936];
philanthropist & trustee of many colleges, hospitals & civic
agencies; president & then chair, Boston Museum of Science [1972-86];
recipient, Harvard Business Statesman Award [1977], American Business Press
Honor Scroll Award [1984], Annual Award, National Conference of Christians
& Jews [1986] |
| Gladwin Hill |
1932 |
London-based AP war correspondent [1942-45]; 1st NY
Times LA bureau chief [1946-68]; author, "Dancing Bear: an Inside Look
at California Politics" [1968]; first national environmental
correspondent, NY Times [1969-79] |
| Oliver Jensen |
1932 |
Cofounder, American Heritage Magazine [1954] &
Horizon Magazine [1958]; editor, American Heritage [1959-76] |
| Dorothy Rockwell |
1932 |
Journalist; Washington Bureau, Transradio Press
Service [1942], Philadelphia Inquirer [1945-]; president, Newspaper Guild of
Washington [1945-] |
| Gerard Piel |
1933 |
Publisher Scientific American [1947-84],
transforming magazine, widening its appeal & influence; president,
American Association for Advancement of Science [1985-86]; author,
"Science in the Cause of Man" [1962], "The Age of Science"
[2001] |
| James S. Copley |
1935 |
Chairman, Copley Press & Copley News Service
[1949-73]; as editorial page editor, San Diego Union, an influential
conservative; philanthropist, educational & cultural institutions |
| Cranston Edward Jones |
1936 |
Journalist & magazine editor & author
focused on American architecture, "Architecture Today &
Tomorrow" [1961], "Marcel Breuer" [1963]; recipient, awards
for excellence in architectural journalism, American Institute of Architects
[1956, '58, '59, '60] |
| Joseph P. Lyford |
1937 |
Pioneering journalist on urban affairs; author,
"The Talk in Vandalia" [1964], "The Airtight Cage"
[1966]; journalism professor, UC Berkeley [1966-83] |
| Frank W. Rounds Jr. |
1938 |
Journalist & diplomat, expert on Russia; author,
"A Window on Red Square" [1953] |
| Townsend Hoopes |
1940 |
Principal deputy secretary of defense, international
security affairs [1965-67], under secretary of the Air Force [1967-69];
co-chair, Americans for SALT; author, "Townsend Hoopes on Arms
Control" [1987]; "The Life & Times of James Forrestal"
[1992]; president, Association of American Publishers [1973-86]; recipient,
Bancroft Prize in History for "The Devil & John Foster Dulles"
[1973] |
| Otis Chandler |
1946 |
Publisher, Los Angeles Times [1960-80], winner,
Pulitzer public service prizes [1966, '69, '71, '76, '78]; called "the
last great 20th-century newspaper publisher" |
| Paul Brodeur |
1949 |
New Yorker staff writer, investigative reporter
focused on environmental hazards; author, "Outrageous Misconduct: The
Asbestos Industry on Trial" [1985], winner, American Bar Association
Silver Gavel Award; recipient, American Association for the Advancement of
Science Journalism Award |
| Dana Ripley Bullen II |
1949 |
Journalist; Washington Star Supreme Court reporter
& later foreign editor & syndicated columnist [1960-81]; executive
director, World Press Freedom Committee [1981-96] |
| Benjamin F. Schemmer |
1950 |
Military analyst; owner & editor, Armed Forces
Journal International [1968-92]; editor in chief, Strategic Review [-2001] |
| Gordon Lish |
1952 |
Founder of literary magazines; fiction editor,
Esquire Magazine [1969-76], Knopf [1976-95]; author, "Krupp's Lulu"
[2000] |
| Les Blank |
1954 |
Documentary filmmaker, especially known for films
documenting American Roots music; Museum of Modern Art retrospective [1979];
recipient, Robert Flaherty Award for "Burden of Dreams" [1982] |
| Robert B. Semple, Jr. |
1954 |
Journalist; New York Times London bureau chief
[1975-77], foreign editor [1977-82], editorial page editor/associate editor
[1982-88, 1988-]; recipient, Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing [1996] |
| Hope Hamilton Pettegrew |
1957 |
Cofounder & publisher, Cobblestone Magazine
[1979-85], history & social science periodical for schools |
| William Hamilton |
1958 |
New Yorker cartoonist [1965-], satirist of the
American upper classes; recipient, Fuess Award [1979] |
| John Rockwell |
1958 |
Critic, classical, pop music & dance; director,
Lincoln Center Festival [1994-98]; editor, Arts and Leisure Section, New York
Times [1998-2004]; author, "Outsider: John Rockwell on the Arts"
[2006] |
| John Darnton |
1960 |
Journalist & novelist; Pulitzer Prize winning
foreign correspondent [1982], New York Times, London bureau chief [1993-96],
cultural editor [1993-2002]; author, "Neanderthal" [1997],
"Black & White & Dead All Over" [2008] |
| Dorothy Tod |
1960 |
Filmmaker; associate producer & film supervisor,
Sesame Street [ca.1970]; producer/director, "What if You Couldn't
Read" [1980], recipient, DuPont-Columbia Citation in Broadcast
Journalism; "Warriors' Women" [1981], recipient, Grand Prize, New
England Film Festival |
| Tracy Kidder |
1963 |
Author; "Soul of the new Machine" [1981],
winner, Pulitzer Prize & American Book Award [1982]; "Home
Town" [1999]; "The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer" [2003] |
| Louis Wiley Jr. |
1963 |
Television documentarian [1970-]; series editor,
WGBH documentary series "World" [1977-83], executive editor, WGBH
"Frontline" series [1983-92, 1999-2009], recipient of multiple
Emmy, Dupont-Columbia, Pulitzer and other awards |
| Seth Mydans |
1964 |
Foreign correspondent; New York Times Southeast Asia
correspondent & the International Herald Tribune [1996-]; recipient,
Shorenstein Journalism Award [2009] |
| Jeffrey K. MacNelly |
1965 |
Cartoonist; creator of the comic strip
"Shoe" [1977]; recipient Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartoons
[1972, -78 & -85], Fuess Award [1979], Overseas Press Club Thomas Nast
Award [1985] for cartoons on international affairs |
| Kevin Rafferty |
1965 |
Documentary filmmaker; producer/director, The Atomic
Café" [1982]; cinematographer, "Roger & Me" [1989],
"The War Room" [1993] |
| William E. "Bill" Littlefield Jr. |
1966 |
Journalist, sports commentator; host, NPR "Only
a Game" [1993-] |
| David Ensor |
1969 |
Broadcast journalist, NPR [1975-80]; ABC diplomatic
correspondent [1980-98]; CNN national security correspondent [1998-] |
| Evan W. Thomas III |
1969 |
Journalist & biographer; assistant managing
editor, Newsweek [1991-]; author, "The Man to See: The Life of Edward
Bennett Williams" [1991], "Robert Kennedy" [2000], "John
Paul Jones" [2003]; recipient, National Magazine Award [1998] |
| Frank duPont |
1971 |
Documentary filmmaker; cofounder, Winton/duPont
Films [1988] |
| Pierce Rafferty |
1971 |
Film archivist & documentary filmmaker;
cofounder, Petrified Films, Inc. [1984]; producer/director "The Atomic
Café" [1982] |
| David Winton |
1971 |
Documentary filmmaker; cofounder, Winton/duPont
Films [1988]; producer/director, "Code Rush" [2000] |
| H. G. "Buzz" Bissinger |
1972 |
Journalist, sportswriter, author; recipient,
Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting [1987]; author, "Saturday
Night Lights" [1988], "A Prayer for the City" [1998],
"Three Nights in August" [2005] |
| Michael Beschloss |
1973 |
Historian, specialist in the American presidency;
author, "Eisenhower: A Centennial Life [1990], "The Conquerors:
Roosevelt & Truman" [2002], "Presidential Courage: Brave
Leaders and How they Changed America" [2007]; television analyst
|
| Kenneth J. Cooper |
1973 |
Journalist; recipient, Pulitzer Prize [1984] as a
Boston Globe reporter; Washington Post Southeast Asia correspondent; Boston
Globe National Editor [2001-2005] |
| Bill Berkeley |
1974 |
Foreign correspondent; author, "The Graves Are
Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe & Power in the Heart of Africa" [2002];
adjunct professor, Columbia School of International & Public Affairs
[2000-] |
| Gary Lee |
1974 |
Foreign correspondent, travel writer, Washington
Post; recipient, Lowell Thomas Award [2002] |
| Alexander Stille |
1974 |
Journalist; author, "Five Italian Jewish
Families Under Fascism" [1992], "Excellent Cadavers: the
Mafia…" [1995], "The Future of the Past" [2003] |
| Jonathan Alter |
1975 |
Journalist with Newsweek [1983-], senior editor
& columnist [1991-]; television political commentator; author, "The
Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days" [2006] |
| Bill Kavanagh |
1975 |
Documentary filmmaker & television producer;
producer, "World in Focus," "Manhattan Connection" &
"Story Café" TV series; producer/director, "Brick by Brick: A
Civil Rights Story" [2007] |
| Susan Chira |
1976 |
Journalist; chief, Tokyo Bureau, The New York Times,
[1983-89], Times foreign editor [2004-] |
| Lucy Schulte Danziger |
1978 |
Journalist; founding managing editor, 7 Days weekly
[1990]; founding editor, Condé Nast Sports & Fitness for Women [1998];
editor-in-chief, Self magazine [2003-] |
| Carroll Bogert |
1979 |
Southeast Asia correspondent, Newsweek [1986-88],
Moscow correspondent [1988-93], editor & international correspondent
[1993-]; Human Rights Watch associate director [2003-] |
| John F. Kennedy Jr. |
1979 |
Founder & editor-in-chief, George magazine
[1995-99] |
| Sarah Chayes |
1980 |
Foreign correspondent, National Public Radio
[1996-2002]; founder, Arghand, a market-based production cooperative in
Afghanistan [2005]; author, "The Punishment of Virtue: Inside
Afghanistan After the Taliban" [2006]; recipient, Fuess Award [2006] |
| Maro Chermayeff |
1980 |
Documentary filmmaker & producer; "The
Kindness of Strangers" [1998], "Julliard" [2003], producer
& director, 10-hour PBS documentary "Carrier" [2008],
recipient, Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography [2008] |
| Jane Pratt |
1980 |
Magazine editor & talk-show host; founding
editor-in chief, Sassy & Jane magazines [ca.1985-2005] |
| Willow Bay |
1981 |
Journalist; co-anchor, "NBA Inside Stuff"
[1991-98], "Good Morning America Sunday" [1994-99] CNN anchor
[-2000]; editor-at-large, Huffington Post [2007-] |
| Macky Alston |
1983 |
Documentary filmmaker; "Family Name"
[1997], "Questioning Faith: Confessions of a Seminarian" [2002],
"The Killer Within" [2006], "Hard Road Home" [2007] |
| Matt Mochary |
1986 |
Documentary filmmaker, co-director, "Favela
Rising" [2005], winner, Best Feature Film, International Documentary
Association Awards [2005] |
| Jason Fry |
1987 |
Assistant managing editor & columnist, WSJ.com
[1995-] |
| Jane Gray |
1990 |
Documentary filmmaker; producer/director,
"Playing House" [2003] |
| Robin Hessman |
1990 |
Television producer & documentary filmmaker;
executive producer "Ulitsa Sezam" [Russian Sesame Street, 1995-99];
winner, Academy Award, Student Films [2004] for "Portrait of Boy with
Dog"; co-producer, PBS American Experience, "Tupperware!"
& American Masters Series "Julia! America's Favorite Chef"
[2004] |
| James Longley |
1990 |
Documentary filmmaker; "Gaza Strip"
[2002]; "Iraq in Fragments" [2006] nominated as best documentary,
Cannes Film Festival; "Sari's Mother" [2006], winner, Golden Gate
Award, San Francisco Film Festival |
| Henry-Alex Rubin |
1991 |
Documentary filmmaker; director, "Who is Henry
Jaglom" [1997]; co-director & cinematographer,
"Murderball" [2005], recipient, Audience Award, Sundance Film
Festival |
| Samantha Appleton |
1993 |
Photojournalist, best known for work in Iraq,
Africa [2000-] |
| Stephanie Johnes |
1993 |
Documentary filmmaker;
producer/director/cinematographer, "Doubletime" [2007] |
| Akash Kapur |
1993 |
Rhodes Scholar [1999-2000]; expert on Internet
governance & access; journalist |
| Seth Moulton |
1997 |
Marine Corps officer in Iraq [2003-]; op-ed
commentator on the Iraq War [2006] |
| Kieran Fitzgerald |
1998 |
Documentary filmmaker;
writer/director/cinematographer, "The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández"
[2007] |
| Charles Forelle |
1998 |
Journalist; winner, Pulitzer Prize for Public
Service [2007], Wall Street Journal coverage of corporate backdating of stock
options |
| Ben Goldhirsh |
1999 |
Founder & publisher, Good magazine [2006-] |
| Alexander Heffner |
2008 |
Founder, Scoop08 and Scoop44, providing Internet
coverage of 2008 election & beyond by young journalists; political
interviewer & analyst |