- Chris Anderson
Chris Anderson is editor-in-chief of "Wired Magazine", which has won a National Magazine Award under his tenure. He coined the phrase "The Long Tail" in an acclaimed Wired article, which he expanded upon in the book "The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More" (2006). He currently lives in Berkeley, California with his wife and four young children. Before joining "Wired" in 2001, he worked at "The Economist", … - Anna Wintour
Anna Wintour (born November 3, 1949, in London) is the editor-in-chief of American "Vogue", a position she has held since 1988. She became interested in fashion as a teenager. Her father, Charles, editor of the "Evening Standard", often consulted with her on how to make the newspaper's coverage relevant to the youth of mid-1960s London. After dropping out of school at 16, she began a career in fashion journalism. - David Remnick
David Remnick (born October 29, 1958 in Hackensack, New Jersey) is an American journalist, writer, and magazine editor. As a reporter for the "Washington Post", he also served as the paper's Moscow correspondent. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for his book "Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire". He has been editor of "The New Yorker" magazine since 1998. He has edited several collections of writings from "The New Yorker" and in 1999, … - Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Michael Sullivan (born August 10,1963) is a libertarian conservative author and political commentator, distinguished by his often personal style of political analysis, and pioneering achievements in the field of blog journalism. Sullivan is known for his unusual personal-political identity (HIV-positive, gay, self-described conservative often at odds with other conservatives, and practising Roman Catholic). - Tina Brown
Tina Brown, Lady Evans (born Christina Hambley Brown on November 21, 1953, in Maidenhead, England) is a journalist, magazine editor, columnist and talk-show host. Born a British citizen, she has since taken United States citizenship. She rose to prominence in the American media industry as the editor of the magazines "Vanity Fair" from 1984 to 1992 and of "The New Yorker" from 1992 to 1998. - Hugh Hefner
Hugh Marston Hefner (born April 9, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois), also referred to colloquially as Hef, is the founder and editor-in-chief of "Playboy" magazine. He has become an icon of American sexuality and a spokesman for the sexual revolution and libertarianism - Pat Buchanan
Patrick Joseph Buchanan (born November 2, 1938) is an American politician, author, syndicated columnist, and broadcaster. He ran in the 2000 presidential election on the Reform Party ticket. He also sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1992 and 1996. Buchanan was a senior advisor to three American presidents, Nixon, Ford and Reagan, and was an original host on CNN's "Crossfire". - Graydon Carter
Edward Graydon Carter (born 14 July 1949) is a Canadian-born American journalist and author. He is editor of "Vanity Fair". He also co-founded, with Kurt Andersen, the satirical monthly magazine "Spy" in 1986. Carter began his career at "Time" as a writer-trainee where he met Andersen. After "Spy" closed down, Carter would become editor at the "New York Observer" before being invited to "Vanity Fair" to take over from Tina Brown, … - Steve Forbes
Malcolm Stevenson "Steve" Forbes Jr. (born July 18, 1947), is the son of Malcolm Forbes and the editor-in-chief of business magazine "Forbes" as well as president and chief executive officer of its publisher, Forbes Inc. He was a candidate in the U.S. Presidential primaries in 1996 and 2000 and is currently National Co-Chair and a Senior Policy Advisor to Rudolph Giuliani's 2008 campaign. - Ruth Reichl
Editor-in-chief of "Gourmet" magazine. - Jon Meacham
Jon Meacham (born 1969) is the editor of "Newsweek" magazine, a bestselling author, and a commentator on politics, history, and faith in America. - Bonnie Fuller
Bonnie Fuller was the editor of "Flare" magazine, YM magazine, the first American edition of "Marie Claire" magazine, "Cosmopolitan" magazine, "Glamour" magazine (beginning in 1998), and "Us Weekly". Her tenure at these publications was marked by a change in content towards a more sensationalistic sensibility, resulting in the desired increase in circulation. Always known throughout her industry as a tough boss, … - Boris Johnson
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, MP (born 19 June 1964, New York), better known as Boris Johnson, is a British Conservative Party politician and journalist. Known for his eccentric public persona, he is Member of Parliament for Henley and was for a time front-bench spokesman as Shadow Minister for Higher Education. - Rich Lowry
Lowry is considered the gatekeeper of the mainstream conservative moment in our country as the editor of National Review and as a political analyst for Fox News. Intellectual, yet down to earth, conservative and fair-minded, he examines the issues of today with a challenging and engaging perspective. - Nick Gillespie
Dr. Nick Gillespie is editor-in-chief of Reason, a libertarian monthly named one of "The 50 Best Magazines" for two straight years by The Chicago Tribune. Established in 1968 and a four-time finalist for National Magazine Awards, Reason has a print circulation of about 55,000. Reason Online, the magazine's Web edition, draws around 1 million visits per month. - Jann Wenner
I n 1967, a 20-year-old Jann S. Wenner dropped out of the University of California Berkeley to start a quirky rock-music-oriented biweekly called Rolling Stone -and changed American culture. Treating the interests of America's increasingly vocal youth with seriousness unknown before, Rolling Stone spoke to-and for-an entire generation. - Atoosa Rubenstein
Atoosa Rubenstein (born Atoosa Behnegar in Tehran, Iran in 1972) was the editor-in-chief of "Seventeen" magazine. She was also the founding editor of "CosmoGIRL!". She is currently the founder of Big Momma Productions, Inc. and "Atoosa.com". - Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. - Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Zakaria (born January 20 1964, Mumbai, India) is a journalist, columnist, author, editor, commentator, and television host specializing in international relations and foreign affairs. He was named Editor of "Newsweek International" in October 2000. He writes a weekly foreign affairs column for "Newsweek", which appears fortnightly in the Washington Post. - Katrina vanden Heuvel
Katrina vanden Heuvel (born October 7 1959) is the editor, part-owner, and publisher of the liberal magazine "The Nation". She has been the magazine's editor since 1995 and a frequent guest on numerous television programs. Vanden Heuvel has strong liberal opinions. - Bill Kristol
William "Bill" Kristol (born December 23, 1952 in New York City) is a American neoconservative pundit, inspired in part by the ideas of Leo Strauss. He is the son of Irving Kristol, who is considered to be one of the founders of the neoconservative movement, and Gertrude Himmelfarb, a scholar of the Victorian era in literature. - Diana Vreeland
Diana Vreeland (July 29, 1903 in Paris, France - August 22, 1989) was a noted columnist and editor in the field of fashion. She was born Diana Dalziel (pronounced Dee-ell), the eldest daughter of a British father, Frederick Young Dalziel and an American mother, Emily Key Hoffman, a socialite who was a descendant of George Washington's brother as well as a cousin of Francis Scott Key. Vreeland had one sister, Alexandra. - Mark Halperin
Mark E. Halperin (born January 11, 1965), is a political analyst for "Time" magazine, Time.com and ABC News. He is also an editor at large for "Time". - Jane Pratt
Jane Pratt (born 11 November 1962 in San Francisco, California) is the founding editor of "Sassy" and "Jane". - Helen Gurley Brown
Helen Gurley Brown (b. February 18, 1922 in Green Forest, Arkansas), is an author, publisher, and businesswoman. She was editor-in-chief of "Cosmopolitan" magazine for 32 years. Brown's father died in an accident when she was young, and her sister was a polio victim. She was raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. From 1939 to 1941 she attended Texas State College for Women and Woodbury Business College. After a stint in the mailroom at the William Morris Agency, … - Marvin Olasky
Marvin Olasky teaches journalism history, sports writing and journalism and religion. He has co-authored seven more books including More Than Kindness and published more than 400 journal and magazine articles on topics including welfare reform, history and sports. Olasky is editor of World magazine, for which he writes a weekly column. - Michael Kelly
Michael Kelly was an editor-at-large of the "Atlantic Monthly" and a columnist for the "Washington Post". He died in 2003 covering the invasion of Iraq. Prior to his employment at "Atlantic", he was the editor of "The New Republic", from 1996 to 1997. Considering that the fraudulent writer, Stephen Glass, was a major contributor under his editorship, Kelly later felt ashamed that he was fooled by Glass' false stories. - Fred Barnes
Fred Barnes is executive editor of The Weekly Standard . From 1985 to 1995, he served as senior editor and White House correspondent for theNew Republic. He covered the Supreme Court and the White House for the Washington Star before moving on to the Baltimore Sun in 1979. He served as the national political correspondent for the Sun and wrote the "Presswatch" media column for the American Spectator. - Gerald Marzorati
Gerald Marzorati is the editor of "The New York Times Magazine". He is also the writer of "A Painter of Darkness", a book about Leon Golub. - David Miller
David Miller, born in Bromley, England, is a British writer and journalist. He has contributed to many publications including the magazines "Film Review", "TV Zone" and "Starburst" (where his work includes interviews with Sir Ian McKellen, Tom Baker and Ray Harryhausen). He co-wrote the book "They Came From Outer Space" with Mark Gatiss (of "The League of Gentlemen"), … - William Shawn
William Shawn was an American magazine editor who edited "The New Yorker" from 1952 until 1987. "Mr. Shawn," as he was nearly always known, was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Benjamin W. and Anna (Bransky) Chon. He dropped out of the University of Michigan after two years (1925-1927) and went to Las Vegas, New Mexico, where he worked on the local paper, the "Optic". He returned to Chicago and worked as a journalist. - Richard Corliss
Richard Corliss is a writer for "Time" magazine who focuses on movies, with the occasional article on music or sports, and has distinguished himself for his clever way with words. During his decades of work, he has helped draw attention to the role of the screenwriter, as opposed to the director, in the creation of movies. - George Plimpton
George Ames Plimpton (March 18, 1927 - September 25, 2003) was an American journalist, writer, editor, and actor. - Harold Ross
Harold Wallace Ross (November 6, 1892 - December 6, 1951) was an American journalist and founder of "The New Yorker" magazine, which he edited from the magazine's inception in 1925 to his death. Born in Aspen, Colorado to George and Ida (Martin) Ross, he was the son of an Irish immigrant and a schoolteacher. When he was eight, the family left Aspen because of the collapse in the price of silver, moving to Redcliff and Silverton, Colorado, then to Salt Lake City, … - Ben Greenman
Ben Greenman (born 1969) is an American writer and magazine editor. Greenman was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Miami, Florida. He attended Miami Palmetto High School and then Yale University where he worked on the Yale Herald. After Yale, he worked as a film critic at New Times newspaper in Miami and then moved to New York City to work as a freelance writer and editor. His journalism has appeared in such magazines as "Rolling Stone", "Mother Jones", … - Paul Williams
Paul Williams (born May 19, 1948 in Boston, Massachusetts) created the first US magazine of rock music criticism ":Crawdaddy!" in January of 1966 on the campus of Swarthmore College with the help of some of his fellow science fiction fans (he had previously put out some science fiction fanzines). He left the magazine in 1968, reclaimed the title in 1993, but had to end it in 2003 due to financial difficulties. He is also the author of more than 25 books, … - Hendrik Hertzberg
Hendrik Hertzberg (b. 1943) is an American journalist, best known as the principal (and left-leaning) political commentator for "The New Yorker" magazine. He has also been a speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter and editor of "The New Republic", and is the author of "Politics: Observations & Arguments". The son of Sidney Hertzberg, a journalist and political activist, and Hazel Whitman Hertzberg, … - Robert Gottlieb
Robert Gottlieb (born April 29, 1931 in New York City, New York) is an American writer and renowned editor in the book publishing business. Gottlieb is a graduate of Columbia University. He is perhaps best known for discovering and editing Catch-22 by the then unknown Joseph Heller. Gottlieb has been Editor-in-Chief of Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf and in 1987 he succeeded William Shawn as editor of "The New Yorker" until 1992 when he was replaced by Tina Brown. - Richard Stengel
Stengel has a history with TIME and has served at different times as its national and culture editor as well as the editor of TIME.com. As a senior writer and essayist he covered both the 1996 and 1988 Presidential campaigns. Stengel has also written for The New Yorker , The New Republic and The New York Times . He's been a frequent television commentator on CNN and MSNBC . - Franklin Foer
Franklin Foer is the Editor of the New Republic and the author of How Soccer Explains The World . Foer's book explores the world of soccer and its fanatical followers. Foer is also covering this year's World Cup in a blog called Goal Post . Vaughn Ververs at the CBS Public Eye explains : GOOOAAAAL! There you have it, my complete depth of knowledge about World Cup Soccer, or any soccer really.
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