Seymour Myron "Sy" Hersh (born April 8, 1937 Chicago) is an American Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist and author based in Washington, DC. He is a regular contributor to "The New Yorker" magazine on military and security matters. His work first gained worldwide recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.

Robert "Bob" Woodward (born March 26, 1943) is assistant managing editor of "The Washington Post". While an investigative reporter for that newspaper, Woodward, working with his co-employee Carl Bernstein helped uncover the Watergate scandal that led to President Richard Nixon's resignation.

Saul David Alinsky (January 30, 1909, Chicago, Illinois - June 12, 1972, Carmel, California) is generally considered the father of community organizing.

Peter F. Steinfels (born in 1941) is an American journalist and educator best known for his writings on religious topics. A native of Chicago, Illinois, and a lifelong Catholic, Steinfels earned his PhD from Columbia University and joined the staff of the journal "Commonweal" in 1964. He served as a visiting professor at Notre Dame in 1994-95 and then as visiting professor at Georgetown University from 1997 to 2001.

Sara Paretsky (b. June 8, 1947 in Ames, Iowa) is a contemporary American author of detective fiction. Paretsky was raised in Kansas. She graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree in political science. She did community service work on the south side of Chicago in 1966 and returned in 1968 to work there. She ultimately completed a Ph.D. in history at the University of Chicago, writing on The Breakdown of Moral Philosophy in New England Before the Civil War, …

Steven V. Reddicliffe (born 1953) is an American journalist who has been the television editor for "The New York Times" 's cultural news desk since September 2004.

Roscoe Mitchell is an African American composer and jazz instrumentalist, mostly known for being "a technically superb — if idiosyncratic — saxophonist." He has been called "one of the key figures" in avant-garde jazz who has been "at the forefront of modern music" for the past thirty years. He continues "to be a major figure." He has even been called a "super musician" and the New York Times has mentioned that he "qualifies as an iconoclast."

Robert Shelton (June 28, 1926, Chicago, Illinois, United States - December 11, 1995, Brighton, England) was a music and film critic. Shelton's most enduring claim to fame was that he helped launch the career of a then unknown 20-year-old folk singer named Bob Dylan. Dylan was performing at Gerdes Folk City in Greenwich Village the ne-plus-ultra of New York City folk venues, opening for a bluegrass act called the Greenbriar Boys.

Charles C. Moskos is a sociologist of the United States Military and a professor at Northwestern University. Described as the nation's "most influential military sociologist" by the Wall Street Journal (where his byline occasionally appears over op-ed pieces), Moskos has long been a source for reporters from the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, USA Today and other periodicals.

Patrick Dennis was an American author. Born Edward Everett Tanner III in Evanston, Illinois, Dennis attended Evanston High School, where he began using his pseudonym. In 1942 he joined the American Field Service, working as an ambulance driver in North Africa and Saudi Arabia. His most famous work, "Auntie Mame" (1955), spent 112 weeks on the bestseller list, selling as many as 5,000 copies a week.

Specialist Tony Lagouranis (b. Chicago, Illinois, United States, c. 1970) is a former U.S. Army soldier, best known for claiming to have participated in torture as an interrogator during the occupation of Iraq. He graduated from high school in 1987 in New York City. He studied Ancient Greek at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Arabic at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California.

Born in 1946, Paul Klein was chosen 2006 Man of the Year by the Chicago Society of Artists. Paul Klein was the first Executive Director of the Chicago ART Project. He is presently (2007) the Art Curator for the 2.5 million square foot expansion of McCormick Place, the editor of "ArtLetter", and a contributor to New York Times. He owned and operated Klein Art Works, a cutting edge art gallery in Chicago until 2004.

Charles Dickinson (born 1951) is an American writer known for his literary novels which often mix realism with winsome absurdity. His books include, in the order of their publication: "Waltz in Marathon", "Crows", "With or Without" (a short story collection), "The Widows' Adventures", "Rumor Has It", and "A Shortcut in Time". His short fiction and non-fiction pieces have appeared in "Atlantic Monthly", "Esquire", …

Maxine Chernoff (born 1952), is an American novelist, writer, poet, academic and literary magazine editor. She was born in Chicago, Illinois, where she grew up, and attended Illinois University. She and her husband, Paul Hoover are editors of the annual literary journal "New American Writing". Chernoff, her husband, and their three children live in Mill Valley, California.

John Corbin (1870-1959) was an American dramatic critic and author, born in Chicago, educated at Harvard, and an established writer in New York City. From 1897 to 1900 he was an assistant editor of "Harper's Magazine", during part of this time acting also as dramatic critic for "Harper's Weekly"; in 1902 he wrote the dramatic notices of the New York Times and in 1905-07 those of the "Sun". From 1908 to 1910 he was literary manager of The New Theatre, …

Orange Judd (July 26 1822 - December 27 1892) was an American agricultural chemist, editor, and publisher. He was born of a rural family near Niagra Falls in Niagara County, New York. His grandfather, also named Orange Judd (1763-1844), came from Tyringham, Massachusetts and served as a private in the Berkshire Militia in the Northern Campaigns. His father, Ozias Judd, fought at Black Rock in 1813.

Selma Jeanne Cohen was a dance historian, editor, and teacher who devoted her career to advocating dance as an art worthy of the same scholarly respect traditionally awarded to painting, music, and literature. She edited the six-volume "International Encyclopedia of Dance", completed in 1998. She was a dance critic for the "New York Times" and the "Saturday Review". She also wrote and edited several books and taught at many colleges, …

Gerit Quealy is an American writer, editor, Shakespearean scholar and actor. She is the co-author of "Wedding Flowers" (2003) and "Wedding Cakes and Flowers" (2006), and an editor of "Fifty Things to Do When You Turn Fifty" (2005). Quealy has also written for the Vows column of "The New York Times", as well as the Style desk of the "Times". Quealy was formerly a Wilhelmina model and an associate editor of "Flair" magazine.

Robert (Rob) Watson (born July 31, 1961 in Chicago, Illinois) is one of the pioneers of the modern Green Building Movement and the Founding Chairman of the LEED Green Building Rating System of the United States Green Building Council (USGBC). He is the Chairman, CEO and Chief Scientist of The EcoTech International Group (ETI) and its subsidiaries American SinoTech and American IndoTech, …

Kęstutis Nakas is a playwright, author, performer, director, and teacher whose work has been presented at the New York Shakespeare Festival, Yale Repertory Theatre, La Mama, Dixon Place, P.S. 122, St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery, 8BC, The Kitchen, Highways, and numerous other national venues. He was born in 1952 in the USA to Lithuanian emigrants. He was named after Kęstutis, a 14th century king of Lithuania, which he describes as "...no joke. It's hard work.

Nan C. Robertson (born July 11, 1926 in Chicago) is an American journalist, author and instructor in journalism.

Rebecca Lieb is vice president of Econsultancy's US operations.

The Obligatory Profile.

Ahhh..What can I say!! I have been a news reporter since 1985 and I have seen so much in this world that I have written so much about. My lifes ambition was to actually travel the world at one time. lol. But now, I am an AP Entertainment reporter for many major newspaper publications. I have worked close with, and interviewed many celebrities, music artists and polititians. Interesting and very hectic line of work!!! But hey, it has been fulfilling.