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Notable Alumni in the field of Journalism

NAME
AREAS OF NOTE
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


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