- Norman Mailer
Norman Kingsley Mailer (born January 31, 1923) is an American novelist, journalist, playwright, screenwriter and film director. Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of creative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism, but which covers the essay to the nonfiction novel. He has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize twice and the National Book Award once.
- George Will
George Frederick Will (born May 4, 1941) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning, conservative American newspaper columnist, journalist, and author.
- 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".
- John Updike
John Hoyer Updike (born March 18 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania) is an American writer. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series ("Rabbit, Run"; "Rabbit Redux"; "Rabbit Is Rich"; "Rabbit At Rest"; and "Rabbit Remembered"). "Rabbit is Rich" and "Rabbit at Rest" both won Pulitzer Prizes for Updike. Describing his subject as "the American small town, …
- David Halberstam
David Halberstam was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author known for his early work on the Vietnam War, his work on politics, history, business, media, American culture, and his later sports journalism.
- Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. He is known for his weekly review column (appearing in the "Chicago Sun-Times" since 1967, and later online, and for the television program "Siskel & Ebert", which he co-hosted for 23 years with Gene Siskel.
- Jared Diamond
Jared Mason Diamond (b. 10 September, 1937) is an American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer and nonfiction author. Diamond works as a professor of geography at UCLA. He is best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Guns, Germs, and Steel" (1997). He also received the National Medal of Science in 1999
- Seymour Hersh
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.
- Art Spiegelman
Art Spiegelman (born February 15, 1948) is an American comics artist, editor, and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic memoir, "Maus."
- Judith Miller
Judith Miller, is a controversial American journalist. Miller, based in Washington D.C., was a prominent "New York Times" reporter with access to top U.S. government officials. Her coverage of these officials, especially regarding the Bush administration’s conclusions about Iraq’s alleged Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Program and her involvement in the Plame Affair, made her a conspicuous media personality.
- 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, …
- Jimmy Breslin
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.
- Alex Haley
Alexander Murray Palmer Haley was an American writer. He is best known for "The Autobiography of Malcolm X", which he co-wrote in collaboration with Malcolm X, and for his book "Roots: The Saga of an American Family".
- David Maraniss
David Maraniss (1949-) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. As a reporter for the Washington Post he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his stories about the life and career of candidate Bill Clinton in the 1992 campaign for the U.S. presidency. Maraniss began his journalism career as a high school student in Madison, Wisconsin, where he covered antiwar protests and high school football for a local daily newspaper.
- Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis (born March 27, 1927, New York City) is a prominent liberal intellectual, writing for "The New York Times" op-ed page and "The New York Review of Books", among other publications. He was previously a columnist for the "Times" (1969-2001). Before that he was London bureau chief (1965-1972), Washington, D.C. bureau (1955-64), and deskman (1948-1952) all for the "Times".
- David S. Broder
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.
- Charlie Savage
Charlie Savage is a newspaper reporter in Washington, DC, with the Boston Globe. He was the recipient of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting on the issue of Presidential Signing Statements, specifically the use of such statements by the Bush administration. He writes about the Supreme Court, homeland security, and US detention and interrogation policies at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere in the War on Terrorism.
- Walter Duranty
Walter Duranty (1884-October 3, 1957) was a Liverpool-born British journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for a set of stories he wrote in 1931 as "The New York Times" Moscow correspondent, covering Joseph Stalin's Five-Year Plan to industrialize the Soviet Union. The award of the Pulitzer Prize to him is controversial, largely due to Duranty's reporting on the Ukrainian famine in 1933. After finishing college, he moved to Paris.
- David Cay Johnston
David Cay Johnston is an investigative journalist for "The New York Times" now focusing on taxes. He received the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting "for his penetrating and enterprising reporting that exposed loopholes and inequities in the U.S. tax code, …
- Natalie Angier
Natalie Angier (born February 16, 1958) is a nonfiction writer and a science journalist for the "New York Times". Angier was born in the Bronx borough of New York City, New York. After completing two years at the University of Michigan, she studied physics and English at Barnard College, where she graduated with high honors in 1978. From 1980 to 1984, Angier wrote about biology for "Discover Magazine".
- Bill Keller
Bill Keller (born January 18 , 1949 ) is executive editor of The New York Times . Bill Keller attended the Roman Catholic Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo, California . After graduating from Pomona College in 1970 where he began his journalistic career by founding an independent newspaper called The Collage , he was a reporter in Portland with The Oregonian , the Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report , and at The Dallas Times Herald .
- Peter Arnett
Peter Gregg Arnett, ONZM (born November 13, 1934 in Riverton, New Zealand) is a New Zealand-American journalist. Arnett worked for "National Geographic" magazine, and later for various television networks, most notably CNN. He is well known for his coverage of war, including the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. He was awarded the 1966 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting for his work in Vietnam, where he was present from 1962 to 1975, …
- William Safire
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.
- Anthony Shadid
Anthony Shadid was born in Oklahoma of Lebanese descent. He is a staff writer for "The Washington Post" where he is an Islamic affairs correspondent based in the Middle East. Before the Post, Shadid worked as Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press based in Cairo and as news editor of the AP bureau in Los Angeles. He spent two years covering diplomacy and the State Department for the Boston Globe before joining the Post's foreign desk.
- Alex Jones
Alex S. Jones is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has been director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government since July 1, 2000. Jones is also a lecturer at the school, occupying the Laurence M. Lombard Chair in the Press and Public Policy. Jones wrote about the press for "The New York Times" from 1983 until 1992 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1987.
- Stephen Hunter
Stephen Hunter (born March 25, 1946) is an American novelist, essayist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic.
- Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter (September 13,1960 - July 27,1994) was an award-winning South African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang Club. Carter began his career as a weekend sports photographer in 1983 for Johannesburg's "Sunday Express". A year later he moved on to work for the Johannesburg "Star" bent on exposing the brutality of apartheid. That same year Carter's first "Time" cover appeared.
- Deborah Blum
Deborah Blum (born October 19 1954) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. As a science writer for the "Sacramento Bee", Blum (rhymes with "gum") wrote a series of articles examining the professional, ethical, and emotional conflicts between scientists who use animals in their research and animal rights activists who oppose that research. Titled "The Monkey Wars", the series won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting.
- Jonathan Yardley
Jonathan Yardley is a book critic for the "The Washington Post", and at one time for the "Washington Star". In 1981 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. He has written several books, among them biographies of Frederick Exley and Ring Lardner. His book about his family, "Our Kind of People," describes his parents' 50-year marriage and turns a wry eye on the American WASP experience.
- Mike Peters
Mike Peters (born October 9, 1943, St. Louis, Missouri) is an American cartoonist. He draws the popular comic strip Mother Goose and Grimm, as well as syndicated editorial cartoons that appear in papers all over the United States. He won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. His home paper is the "Dayton Daily News" in Dayton, Ohio.
- Gretchen Morgenson
Gretchen Morgenson , Pulitzer Prize winning reporter from The New York Times, is an expert from the world of journalism. She is knowledgeable on the WHOs and the WHATs of Executive Compensation's uses and abuses. Her topic is The Good, The Bad and the Ugly in Executive and Board Compensation.
- Dean Baquet
Dean P. Baquet (born in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American journalist. As of March 5, 2007, he was on the masthead of "The New York Times" as an assistant managing editor and Washington bureau chief. Baquet was previously managing editor, then editor, of the "Los Angeles Times". From 1995 to 2000, he was national editor of "The New York Times". He is on the board of directors of the Committee to Protect Journalists.
- Dave Anderson
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.
- Ira Gershwin
Ira Gershwin (6 December 1896 - 17 August 1983) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century. With George he wrote more than a dozen Broadway shows, featuring songs such as "I Got Rhythm," "Embraceable You," "The Man I Love" and "Someone to Watch Over Me," and the opera "Porgy and Bess".
- Jack Anderson
Jackson Northman Anderson (October 19, 1922 - December 17, 2005) was an American newspaper columnist and is considered one of the fathers of modern investigative journalism. Anderson won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his investigation on secret American policy decision-making between the United States and Pakistan during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971.
- J. R. Moehringer
J.R. Moehringer (born c. 1964) is an American journalist and author. He is a national correspondent for "The Los Angeles Times". A 1986 graduate of Yale University, Moehringer began his journalism career as a news assistant at "The New York Times". He won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 2000. The film "Resurrecting the Champ", based on Moehringer's article on former boxing great Bob Satterfield in the "Los Angeles Times Magazine", …
- Howard Rosenberg
Howard Rosenberg is a retired TV critic for the Los Angeles Times. He worked there for 25 years and won a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. In recent years he has produced the anthology "Not So Prime Time: Chasing the Trivial on American Television" and taught at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
- Tim Page
Tim Page (born October 11, 1954 in San Diego, California), is a writer, editor, producer and music critic. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic for the "Washington Post" who also played an essential role in the revival of American author Dawn Powell. Page grew up in Storrs, Connecticut, where his father Ellis B. Page was a professor of education at the University of Connecticut. In 1967, he was the subject of a short documentary, …
- Eddie Adams
Eddie Adams was an American photographer noted for portraits of celebrities and politicians and as a photojournalist having covered 13 wars. It was while covering the Vietnam War for the Associated Press that he took his best-known photograph - the picture of police chief General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Vietcong prisoner, Nguyen Van Lem, on a Saigon street, on February 1, 1968, during the opening stages of the Tet Offensive.
- Edward Humes
Edward Humes is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and published non-fiction writer.