- Charles Krauthammer
Charles Krauthammer, (born 13 March 1950), is a Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist and commentator. Krauthammer appears regularly as a guest commentator on "Fox News". His print work appears in the "Washington Post", "Time" magazine and "The Weekly Standard". - Juan Gonzalez
Juan Gonzalez is an American investigative journalist. He has been a columnist for the "New York Daily News" since 1987. He co-hosts the radio and television program Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman. He was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and was raised in East Harlem and Brooklyn. After a stint as editor of his high school newspaper, the "Lane Reporter", Gonzalez enrolled in Columbia University, … - Jami Bernard
Jami Bernard (born on August 8, 1956) is an author and award-winning film critic. She has written for the "New York Post" and the "New York Daily News". She has also appeared in films as herself. She is a frequent guest on the radio on talk shows like "Lynn Samuels" on Satellite Radio. - Jeff Jarvis
JEFF JARVIS is former TV critic for TV Guide and People, creator of Entertainment Weekly, Sunday editor and associate publisher of the NY Daily News, and a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner. He was until recently president & creative director of Advance.net , the online arm of Advance Publications. - Mortimer Zuckerman
Background: Mortimer B. Zuckerman is the chairman and editor-in-chief of U.S.News & World Report and a regular columnist for the magazine. He is also the publisher of the New York Daily News as well as the founder and chairman of Boston Properties Inc., one of the nation's largest real estate companies. He is a trustee of Memorial Sloan-Kettering, the Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc., and the Center for Communications. - Mike Lupica
Mike Lupica (born 1952) is an American newspaper columnist, best known for his provocative sports commentary in the "New York Daily News" and his appearances on ESPN. - Lloyd Grove
Lloyd Grove (born 1955) was a gossip columnist for "New York Daily News" before he left on October 9, 2006. Grove grew up in Los Angeles, California and Greenwich, Connecticut. He completed his BA in English at Yale University. While at Yale, Grove had a summer job as an assistant for a show business press agent and reported for the Yale Daily News. He has written for the "Washington Post", "Vanity Fair" and "Harper's Bazaar". - Adam Nagourney
Adam Nagourney (born October 10, 1954 in New York City) is an American journalist covering U.S. politics for "The New York Times". Nagourney graduated with a B.A. from the State University of New York at Purchase in 1977. Prior to joining the "Times" in 1996, he worked for the "Gannett Westchester Newspaper" (1977-83), … - Pete Hamill
Pete Hamill is a prominent American journalist, novelist, and short story writer. He is currently on the staff of "The New Yorker". In the early 1950s, he studied at the School of Visual Arts. In 1960, Hamill began working as a reporter for the New York Post. In subsequent years, he became one of the city's best known reporters, as columnist for the Post, the "New York Daily News", and "Newsday". - Joe Leydon
Joseph Patrick Leydon (born August 22, 1952 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an award-winning film critic and historian. Currently a critic and correspondent for Variety, the "show business bible," and a contributing writer for MovieMaker magazine, he is the author of "Joe Leydon's Guide to Essential Movies You Must See" (Michael Wiese Productions), and host of http://movingpictureblog.blogspot.com/ and the website http://www.MovingPictureShow.com/. - Errol Louis
Errol Louis (born in Harlem, USA) was formerly an associate editor of The New York Sun. He has taught college courses, co-founded an inner-city community credit union, run for City Council and was once named by "New York Magazine" as one of "10 New Yorkers Making a Difference" "with energy, vision and independent thinking." He became a writer for the New York Daily News in June 2004. He also writes a column, Commerce and Community, for Our Time Press, … - Mike Barnicle
Mike Barnicle has been a columnist for more than 30 years, writing in that time for The Boston Globe, New York Daily News, and the Boston Herald. Locally, he continues to contribute to the Boston Herald and to WCVB TV's "Chronicle", the longest running , award winning local news magazine show. - Bill Gallo
Bill Gallo is a famed cartoonist and newspaperman for the New York Daily News. He was born in Manhattan on December 28, 1922. His father was a newspaperman, but died when Gallo was 11 years old. When Gallo graduated from high school he landed for copyboy's job on the Daily News in 1941. He worked there for seven months until he was called to serve in World War II. Upon his return, he resumed his career with the Daily News. - Paul Rieckhoff
Paul Rieckhoff founded and is Executive Director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA). A non-partisan non-profit founded in 2004 with tens of thousands of members in all 50 US states, IAVA is America’s first and largest Iraq and Afghanistan veterans' group. Honored by "Esquire" as one of "America’s Best and Brightest" in 2004, Rieckhoff has appeared on hundreds of radio and television programs. - Ed Sullivan
Edward Vincent Sullivan (September 28, 1901 - October 13, 1974) was an American entertainment writer and television host, best known as the emcee of a popular TV variety show called "The Ed Sullivan Show" that was at its height of popularity in the 1950s and 1960s. - A. M. Rosenthal
Abraham Michael "A.M." Rosenthal (May 2, 1922 - May 10, 2006), born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, was a "New York Times" executive editor (1977-88) and columnist (1987-1999) and "New York Daily News" columnist (1999-2004). He joined the "New York Times" in 1943 and worked for the "Times" for 56 years - from 1943 to 1999. Rosenthal won a Pulitzer Prize in 1960 for international reporting. - Robert D. Kaplan
Robert D. Kaplan (born 1952) is an American journalist, currently an editor for the "Atlantic Monthly". His writings have also been featured in "The Washington Post", "The New York Times", "The New Republic", "The National Interest", and "The Wall Street Journal", among other newspapers and publications, and his more controversial essays about the nature of U.S. power have spurred debate in academia, the media, … - Gail Collins
Gail Collins (born December 25, 1945) was the Editorial Page Editor of "The New York Times" from 2001 to January 1, 2007. She was the first woman Editorial Page Editor at the "Times". Before the Editorial Page, Collins was an editorial board member and columnist on the op-ed page. On October 12, 2006, she announced that she would step down as Editorial Page Editor, effective this year. Collins will take a year off to write a book, … - Lenore Skenazy
Lenore Skenazy is a columnist and features reporter for the New York Daily News. She previously worked for NPR and Mad Magazine. She was featured in the second episode of Bravo's series Tabloid Wars. According to her Daily News biography, she has a 3-year-old and a 5-year-old. - Ray Nagin
Mayor Nagin said yesterday that "there are way to many frickin' - excuse me - cooks in the kitchen... they should have done these sandbagging operations first thing in the morning and it didn't get done... quite frankly I'm very frustrated" and today he is already on track to get the organizational problems fixed. New Orleans made a very rare, wise decision to elect this man, and I hope they keep him in office for quite a while. - Kate Mara
Kate Mara (born February 27, 1983) is an American television and film actress. Beginning acting in her hometown of Bedford, New York, she moved from the stage to her first film, "Random Hearts" (1999). Notable roles include appearances in Academy Award-winner "Brokeback Mountain" and on Fox television series "24". Included on the "New York Daily News" list of "10 young actors who have a shot at making it big" at the start of 2006, … - Steve Malzberg
Steve Malzberg is a conservative radio broadcaster, sports announcer, paid lecturer and political commentator on radio, television and the internet. He is currently hosts "The Steve Malzberg Show" on the WOR Radio Network. A graduate of Brooklyn College, Malzberg worked at 77 WABC for over twenty-five years in several capacities, i.e., as a popular overnight political talk show host, a sports commentator, and co-host of a regular afternoon show with Richard Bey. - Robin Leach
Robin Douglas Leach (born August 29, 1941 in London, England) is an English celebrity writer famous for hosting his first show, "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" in the 1980s, which focused on profiling well-known celebrities and their lavish homes, cars, and other materialistic accoutrements. His voice is often parodied by other actors with his signature phrase, "champagne wishes and caviar dreams." During grammar school at Harrow County School for Boys, … - Paul Levinson
Paul Levinson <small>BA, MA, PhD</small> is an author and professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University in New York City. Levinson's novels, short fiction, and non-fiction works have been translated into twelve languages. As a commentator on media, popular culture, and science fiction he has been interviewed over 500 times on many local, national and international television and radio shows. - Jim Dwyer
Jim Dwyer is an American journalist who is a reporter and columnist with "The New York Times". A native New Yorker, Dwyer wrote columns for "New York Newsday" and the "New York Daily News" before joining the "Times". He earned a bachelor’s degree in general science from Fordham University in 1979 and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1980. - Lisa Olson
Lisa Olson is a sportswriter for the New York Daily News. - Joseph Medill Patterson
Joseph Medill Patterson (January 6, 1879 - May 26, 1946) was an American journalist and publisher, the grandson of publisher Joseph Medill, owner of the Chicago Tribune and a mayor of Chicago and older brother of fellow publisher Cissy Patterson. He was also the father of another publisher, Alicia Patterson, who founded and edited Newsday. - Rod Lurie
Rod Lurie (born May 15, 1962) is an American director, screenwriter and former film critic. The son of internationally syndicated cartoonist Ranan Lurie, he was born in Israel but moved to the United States at a young age, growing up in Greenwich, Connecticut and Honolulu, Hawaii. Graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1984, he served in the U.S. Army as an Air Defense Artillery officer, then became an entertainment reporter and film critic, … - Norman Siegel
Norman Siegel (born 1943) was the director of the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), New York's leading civil rights organization, under the umbrella of the nationwide American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Siegel served as director from 1985 until 2000. Siegel attended Brooklyn College and NYU Law School with Rudy Giuliani, who later became mayor of New York City, and NYCLU's frequent courtroom opponent. - Jawn Murray
Jawn Murray is an entertainment news commentator on the nationally syndicated "Tom Joyner Morning Show". He is also an entertainment news columnist for AOL’s Black Voices where he writes the weekly “BV Buzz” column. Jawn is also an entertainment news contributor to the "New York Daily News". On the TV Jawn has been featured on networks like VH1, E! Entertainment, Court TV, BET, TV One, The Word network and on shows like "Access Hollywood, Rolonda, … - Brian Sack
Brian Sack is an American actor and humorist based in New York City. He appears on the "Glenn Beck on Headline News", a daily television program on CNN Headline News. Sack serves on the show as a correspondent and as the "Public Viewer" - where he takes the host, Glenn Beck, to task on a variety of subjects, usually revolving around Beck's own performance on the show. Sack writes humor for a variety of outlets including "Radar", "The Independent", … - Robert Stone
Robert Stone (born August 21, 1937) is a critically well regarded American novelist, whose work is typically characterized by psychological complexity, political concerns, and dark humor. Stone was born in Brooklyn, New York. Until the age of six he was raised by his mother, who suffered from schizophrenia; after she was institutionalized, he spent several years in a Catholic orphanage. In his short story "Absence of Mercy," which Stone has said is autobiographical, … - Chris Allbritton
Chris Allbritton is a web blogger and journalist, best known for starting the Web log Back to Iraq during the 2003 Iraq War. After he raised $15,000 from his readers, he became the Web's "first fully reader-funded journalist-blogger." After a second round of fundraising, he returned to Baghdad in May 2004 and contracted with "Time magazine" as a correspondent for Iraq until March 2006. - Tamara Witmer
Tamara Lynn Witmer (born March 21, 1984) is an American model. She is best known for her appearance as "Playboy's" Playmate of the Month - Miss August 2005 - and was also the cover model for the October 2006 issue. Witmer was born in Valencia, California and her family relocated to Dublin, Ohio, where she spent her childhood. She attended Dublin Coffman and Dublin Scioto High School. She moved to Los Angeles after graduating high school to begin her modeling career. - Adam Clymer
Adam Clymer is an American journalist. Born to children's book author Eleanor Clymer (née Lowenton) and Kinsey Clymer, Clymer attended Harvard College, receiving an A.B. in 1958. Clymer's journalism career began when he was in high school; he wrote for the school newspaper and collected sports scores for "The New York Times". He did post-graduate work at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. In 1960, he joined "The Virginian-Pilot" in Norfolk, … - Ruth Snyder
Ruth Brown Snyder (1895 - January 12, 1928) was an American murderer. She was executed for the murder of her husband, Albert. She was executed by electric chair (by "state electrician" Robert G. Elliott) at Sing Sing Prison on January 12, 1928, along with Judd Gray, her lover and co-conspirator. In 1925, Snyder began an affair with Gray, a corset salesman. She began to plan the murder of her husband, enlisting the help of her new lover. - Gary Smith
Gary Smith is one of America's most acclaimed sportswriters. He is currently a senior writer for "Sports Illustrated". Smith has been called one of America's best sportswriters as well as America's best magazine writer. He has won the National Magazine Award, the magazine equivalent of the Pulitzer, three times. His pieces have also appeared in The Best American Sports Writing series more than those of any other writer. - Paul Gallico
Paul William Gallico (July 26, 1897-July 15, 1976) was a successful U.S. novelist and short story writer. Many of his works were adapted for motion pictures. He is perhaps best remembered for the story "The Snow Goose", which was his only real critical success, and for his novel "The Poseidon Adventure", primarily because it has been made into several films, particularly the generally well-received 1972 version. Gallico was born in New York City. - Marcia Kramer
Marcia Kramer is currently a political reporter and anchor for WCBS-TV (CBS 2) in New York City. She has for the past decade hosted the Sunday morning political show "Sunday Edition with Marcia Kramer". In 2006 the show became "Kirtzman & Kramer" where she co-hosts with Andrew Kirtzman. The show features interviews with reporters and politicians. She joined WCBS-TV in 1990 from the New York Daily News where she was the City Hall bureau chief. - Sam Schwartz
Samuel I. Schwartz, a.k.a. "Gridlock Sam," is one of the leading transportation engineers in the United States, and is widely believed to be the man responsible for popularizing the phrase gridlock. He originally worked as a cabbie. He eventually held a top post in New York City's transportation department for many years and now operates as a private consultant.
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