Arthur Buchwald (October 20, 1925 - January 17 2007) was an American humorist best known for his long-running column that he wrote in "The Washington Post", which in turn was carried as a syndicated column in many other newspapers. His column focused on political satire and commentary. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Outstanding Commentary in 1982 and in 1986 was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

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".

George Frederick Will (born May 4, 1941) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning, conservative American newspaper columnist, journalist, and author.

William L. Safire (born December 17, 1929) is an American author, semi-retired columnist, and former journalist and presidential speechwriter. He is perhaps best known as a long-time syndicated political columnist for "The New York Times" and a regular contributor to "On Language" in the "New York Times Magazine", a column on popular etymology, new or unusual usages, and other language-related topics.

Jimmy Breslin (born October 17, 1930) is an American columnist and author who has written numerous novels and appeared regularly in various newspapers in New York City, where he lives. On November 2, 2004 he retired as a regular columnist from "Newsday" but stated his intention to continue writing. In his final "Newsday" column, Breslin incorrectly predicted a Kerry victory in the 2004 Presidential election. Breslin was born in Jamaica, New York.

Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith (September 25 1905 in Green Bay, Wisconsin - January 15 1982 in Stamford, Connecticut) was an American sportswriter who rose to become America's most widely read sportswriter. Today, he is remembered as one of America's most outstanding sportswriters. After graduating from East High School in Green Bay, site of Packers home games until 1957, Smith moved on to the University of Notre Dame.

David Barry, Jr. (born July 3, 1947) is a bestselling American author and Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist who wrote a nationally syndicated column for the "The Miami Herald" from 1983 to 2005.

Nicholas Donabet Kristof (born April 27 1959 in Yamhill, Oregon) is an American political scientist, author, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist specializing in East Asia. He is currently a columnist for "The New York Times" and previously served as the as The New York Times' Bureau Chief in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Tokyo. He has written a number of books on Asia, …

Thomas Loren Friedman, OBE (born July 20, 1953), is an American journalist, author and a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. He is an op-ed contributor to "The New York Times", whose column appears twice weekly and mainly addresses topics on foreign affairs. Friedman is known for supporting a compromise resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, modernization of the Arab world, environmentalism and globalization.

Maureen Dowd (born January 14, 1952) is a columnist for "The New York Times". She has worked for the Times since 1983, when she joined as a metropolitan reporter. She was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for her series of columns on the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

Murray Kempton (December 16, 1917 - May 5, 1997) was an important American journalist who was a significant presence on the political left for many years. He was born James Murray Kempton in Baltimore. He worked as a copyboy for H. L. Mencken at the "Baltimore Evening Sun". He was educated at Johns Hopkins, where he was editor-in-chief of the "Johns Hopkins News-Letter".

Paul A. Gigot is a Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative political commentator and the editor of the editorial pages for "The Wall Street Journal". He is also the moderator of the public affairs television series "Journal Editorial Report", a program reflecting the "Journal"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s editorial views which airs on Fox News Channel.

Mary McGrory (August 22, 1918 - April 20, 2004) was an American journalist and columnist. She was a fierce opponent of the Vietnam War and was on Richard Nixon's enemies list for writing "daily hate Nixon articles." Born in Boston, Massachusetts to Edward and Mary McGrory, she shared her father's love of Latin and writing, and she graduated from the Girls' Latin School and began her career as a book reviewer at "The Boston Herald".

David S. Broder (born September 11, 1929) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, television talk show pundit, and university professor. He was born in Chicago Heights, Illinois. Currently, he writes a political column for the "The Washington Post" twice a week and teaches at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Michael "Mike" Royko (September 19, 1932 - April 29, 1997) was a longtime newspaper columnist in Chicago, Illinois.

William Raspberry (b. Okolona, Mississippi, United States, October 12 1935) is an American columnist. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated urban affairs columnist at "The Washington Post", as well as the Knight Professor of the Practice of Communications and Journalism at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University. In 1999, Raspberry received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College.

Cynthia Tucker is an American syndicated columnist, and the editor of the opinion section of "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution". She was recognized with a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2007 "for her courageous, clear-headed columns that evince a strong sense of morality and persuasive knowledge of the community"; she was a Pulitzer-nominated finalist in 2004 and 2006.

Dave Anderson (born May 6, 1929 in Troy, New York) is an American sportswriter based in New York City. He began his career after graduating from Holy Cross in 1951. Anderson has written for a number of New York papers. He covered the Brooklyn Dodgers for the "Brooklyn Eagle", before moving to the "New York Journal-American" in 1955, and later to "The New York Times" in 1966. Anderson was given a column at the "Times" in 1971.

Colbert I. King (born 1939-09-20) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Washington Post. He is Deputy Editor of the Post's editorial page. King earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in government from Howard University in 1961. Before joining the staff of the Washington Post in 1990, …

Russell Wayne Baker (born August 14, 1925) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning writer known for his satirical commentary and self-critical prose. He is known for his autobiography, "Growing Up".

Vermont Connecticut Royster (April 30, 1914 - July 22, 1996) was the editor of the Wall Street Journal from 1958 to 1971. He was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He won two Pulitzer Prizes for his writing, and numerous other awards. Although his life began and ended in Raleigh, North Carolina, the parts in between took him to the rest of the world. His distinctive names were the result of a family tradition of using the names of states for offspring, …

Jimmie Lee "Jim" Hoagland (born January 22, 1940) is an American journalist and two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize. He is an associate editor, senior foreign correspondent, and columnist for "The Washington Post". Born in Rock Hill, South Carolina, Hoagland is a graduate of the University of South Carolina. He attended graduate school at both the University of Aix-en-Provence in France and Columbia University in New York.

Leonard Pitts Jr. is a nationally-syndicated columnist and winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. He was originally hired by the Miami Herald to critique music, but within a few years he received his own column in which he dealt extensively with race, politics, and culture. He lives in Bowie, Maryland. He has won awards for his writing from the Society of Professional Journalists and the American Society of Newspaper Editors, …

Clarence Daniel Batchelor (b. April 1, 1888, Osage City, Kansas; d. September 5, 1977) was an American editorial cartoonist who was also noted for painting and sculpture. Batchelor's journalistic career began in 1911 as a staff artist for the "Kansas City Star". From 1914 to 1918 he worked as a free-lance artist, returning to newspapers in 1923 when he worked as a cartoonist in the "New York Post" for the Ledger Syndicate until 1931.

Dorothy Rabinowitz is an American conservative journalist and commentator. She was born in New York City, and was educated at Queens College and New York University. Ms. Rabinowitz was awarded the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles published in 2000 covering aspects of U.S. social and cultural trends. Previously, she had been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize three times.

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.

James Patrick Murray (December 29, 1919 - August 17, 1998) was an American sportswriter at the "Los Angeles Times" from 1961 to 1998. Many of his achievements include winning the Sportswriter of the Year award fourteen times. In 1990, he won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his 1989 columns, and the Baseball Hall of Fame awarded him the J.G. Taylor Spink Award in 1987.

Anna Quindlen hasn't been a New York Times columnist for more than a decade, but she'd still fit in quite well on her old paper's op-ed page. In her opinion piece for the October 31 Newsweek, Quindlen takes up the inclination to psychoanalyze President Bush from one current Times columnist, Maureen Dowd , and the Iraq-is-Vietnam argument from another, Frank Rich.

Connie Schultz (born July 21, 1957), of Cleveland, Ohio, is a columnist for "The Plain Dealer" newspaper for which she won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, beating Nicholas Kristof of "The New York Times" and Tommy Tomlinson of "The Charlotte Observer". Schultz was also a 2003 Pulitzer Prize finalist in feature writing. Schultz was a contributor to the online political blog "The Huffington Post".

Clarence Page (born June 2, 1947) is a journalist, syndicated columnist and member of the editorial board for the "Chicago Tribune". He is an occasional panelist on "The McLaughlin Group", a regular contributor of essays to "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer", host of several documentaries on the Public Broadcasting Service, and an occasional commentator on National Public Radio's "Weekend Edition Sunday".

Liz Balmaseda (born January 17, 1959) is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, who writes for the "Miami Herald". Balmaseda was born in Puerto Padre, Cuba amidst the Cuban Revolution. Her family emigrated to the United States, and she grew up in Miami, Florida. She received an associate's degree from Miami-Dade Community College, and then a bachelor's degree from Florida International University in communications in 1981.

Eileen McNamara was a Pulitzer Prize winning metro columnist for the "Boston Globe". She is known for her outspoken opinions. She is now a journalism professor at Brandeis University.. Her husband is Globe Basketball writer Peter May. She made an appearance on the Daily Show on September 25 edition. McNamara collaborated with Nan Sook Hong on the book "In the Shadow of the Moons: My Life in the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Family".

Mike McAlary was a journalist who had worked at the New York Daily News for 12 years, following the police beat. In 1988 he wrote a book, "Buddy Boys", about corrupt cops in New York's 77th Precinct, and won a Pulitzer Prize for his exposé of the New York police torture of Abner Louima in Brooklyn in 1997. He also had a hand in writing the script for the movie Copland. His idols were iconic reporters Jimmy Breslin, Murray Kempton, and Pete Hamill.