- James Surowiecki
James Michael Surowiecki is an American journalist. He is staff writer at "The New Yorker", where he writes a regular column on business and finance called "The Financial Page". Surowiecki's writing has appeared in a wide range of publications, including "The New York Times", the "Wall Street Journal", "Artforum", "Wired", and "Slate".
- Howard Gordon
Howard Gordon (born 31 March 1961, Queens, New York, New York, USA) is an American screenwriter and producer. After graduating from Princeton in 1984, Gordon came to Los Angeles with fellow filmmaker Alex Gansa to pursue a career in writing for television. Both broke into the industry with single episodes of ABC's "Spenser: For Hire".
- Dean Takahashi
Check out my cool video. It's not really me. It's a synthetic me. A company called Mova captured my face and cast it in digital form. With their animation technology, they could get me to say things I never did. :) Look for this technology to appear in video games in a year or two. I am Dean Takahashi.
- Joan Acocella
Joan B. Acocella (nee Ross, born 1945) is an American journalist who is a dance critic for "The New Yorker". She has written several books on dance, literature, and psychology. Acocella received her B.A. in English in 1966 from the University of California, Berkeley. She earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature at Rutgers University in 1984 with a thesis on the Ballets Russes.
- Aaron Ehasz
Aaron Ehasz is an American television writer. He has written for "Mission Hill", "Ed", "Futurama", and "Avatar: The Last Airbender". According to the Mission Hill commentaries, during his time before (and during) the show, he lived an incredibly lazy life reminiscent of the main character Andy French in the episode "Unemployment Part 2", which he wrote.
- Scott Adsit
Scott Adsit (born in June 10, 1974 in Circle Pines, Minnesota) is an American writer, actor and improviser. He is currently appearing in "30 Rock" on NBC and "Moral Orel" on Adult Swim. In 1994, he joined the mainstage cast of The Second City in Chicago, where he appeared in several Jeff award-winning revues, including "Pinata Full of Bees" and "Paradigm Lost". A sketch he performed with future "SNL" head writer Adam McKay, "Gump", …
- Bill Canterbury
Bill Canterbury is an American television writer who has written episodes of The Simpsons and What's New Scooby Doo?. He is currently writing for a new sitcom called Misconeceptions.
- Kenny Hotz
Kenneth Joel "Kenny" Hotz (born May 3 1973, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian film maker, actor, producer, director, journalist, photographer and writer. He is most famous for co-starring with Spencer "Spenny" Rice on the Canadian television show "Kenny vs. Spenny". Hotz made his first film at the age of seven while attending film camp. He has been a photographer since 1986 -- photographing numerous countries and historic world events.
- Vernon Chatman
Vernon Chatman is a television producer, writer, voice actor, stand-up comedian and musician. Together with long time friend John Lee he is the creator, executive producer, writer and star of the MTV2 series "Wonder Showzen" (he voices the main puppet Chauncey and various other characters on the show). He is also the voice of Towelie, the pot-smoking talking towel on "South Park". Previously, Chatman worked as a staff writer for "South Park", …
- Paul Tibbitt
Paul Tibbitt born in 1954 is a prolific cartoon writer and storyboard artist on the hit TV series "SpongeBob SquarePants". He is currently the Supervising Producer of the show. He has done over two-quarters of the show's episodes, …
- Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben is a writer and activist on global warming, alternative energy, and the need to reshape our economy and our communities. His first book, The End of Nature , was the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has been printed in more than 20 languages. In late summer 2006, Bill helped lead a five-day walk across Vermont to demand action on global warming that some newspaper accounts called the largest demonstration to date in America about climate change.
- Nikki Finke
In 2007, Finke won the Los Angeles Press Club's Southern California Journalism Award for "Entertainment Journalist of the Year" with the judges commenting: "Reading Nikki Finke 's salaciously candid coverage of Hollywood and its inhabitants almost feels like a guilty pleasure. She mixes the news with fearless finger-wagging that's just fun to read no matter the subject. She tackles the industry monoliths without the kiddy gloves and she seems to have command of the beat."
- John Seabrook
John Seabrook is an American journalist who writes about technology and popular culture. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1993. Seabrook graduated from Princeton University in 1981 and received an M.A. in English Literature from Oxford. He began his career writing about ...
- Timothy Noah
Timothy Noah , a contributing editor of the Washington Monthly , writes Slate's "Chatterbox" column. Previously, he was an assistant managing editor at US News and World Report and a reporter in the Washington bureau of The Wall Street Journal . Noah was an editor at the Washington Monthly from 1983-5. His most recent article for the Monthly was "Small things make a big difference" .
- Mark Danner
Mark Danner has written about international affairs, human rights and foreign wars for more than 20 years. He has covered Central America, Haiti, the Balkans and Iraq, among many other stories. A longtime staff writer for The New Yorker, Danner is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books.
- Philip Gourevitch
Philip Gourevitch is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where his work has appeared since 1995. His first book, We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda -published in 1998-won a number of major prizes, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and, in England, the Guardian First Book Award.
- Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid (b. Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson, 25 May 1949 in St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda) is an Antiguan-American novelist.
- Ted Rall
Ted Rall , America's hardest-hitting editorial satirist, is President of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists . He is also an award-winning political commentator who also works as a syndicated columnist, author, freelance illustrator and (when he gets the chance) radio commentator. This site includes his blog , as well as regular updates of his three cartoons per week , weekly opinion columns and news about his latest projects.
- Michael Ignatieff
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF announced his candidacy on April 7, 2006. He is a Toronto-born academic and author, who left his post as director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University in August 2005 to teach at the University of Toronto. He now represents the Toronto riding of Etobicoke-Lakeshore. Ignatieff worked as a reporter for The Globe and Mail before going on to earn his PhD at Harvard.
- Ved Mehta
Ved Mehta is a man of the world because he had no choice. Blind since age 4, rootless since his teens, Mehta, a California-educated native of India and author of 18 wide-ranging books, has lived on three continents through the whims of history and personal fate.
- Nat Hentoff
Nat Hentoff contributes regularly to Village Voice and The Wall Street Journal . Among other publications in which his work has appeared are The New York Times , The New Republic , Commonwealth , The Atlantic , and The New Yorker , where he was a staff writer for more than 25 years.
- Nicholas Lemann
Nicholas Lemann , now a staff writer for The New Yorker, was born in New Orleans 46 years ago to a lawyer father and a psychologist mother. After graduating from Harvard in 1976, he worked as a reporter and editor for The Washington Monthly and Texas Monthly and as a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly .
- Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Gates is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is most recently the author of Finding Oprah's Roots, Finding Your Own (Crown, 2007) and the host and executive producer of the critically acclaimed PBS series "African American Lives" and "Oprah's Roots."
- Erik Rush
Erik is also a Staff Writer for the New Media Alliance, Inc., and is acting Associate Editor and Publisher of TheRealityCheck.org. In addition to work and his family, he also participates in the Praise band and martial arts at his church and enjoys writing music, remodeling, and refinishing guitars. His entertaining and informative (if bizarre) website can be found at www.erikrush.com .
- 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.
- Ryan Singel
Ryan Singel is a Wired.com staff writer and co-edits the Threat Level blog. He covers privacy, security, tech policy, internet freedom and civil liberties. His stories run the gamut, ranging from keeping a close eye on Google's privacy practices to keeping tabs on the latest government data-mining project.
- Brian Heater
Brian Heater is the Associate Editor, Blogs. Before working for PC Magazine, he was employed as a staff writer at Laptop Magazine, which is sort of like PC Magazine, only smaller and more portable. His writing has appeared in Spin, Entertainment Weekly, The Onion, The New York Press, and various other publications. His grandfather was raised by wolves, which makes him one-quarter wolf.
- Jason Gelles
I'm much less likeable than my brother.
- Arika Mittman
Was one of several pioneers at Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment to first create and produce online original content and series.
- Jon Schell
Still alive.
- Lauren Gussis
- Robert Ciraldo
Occasionally DJs around Milwaukee as DJ Def Donald (usually accompanied by DJ Savant). Used to work as a computer programmer. Holds a patent in the U.S. and one in Europe.
- Katherine Corcoran
- Ian Dallas
After a brief career in acting, Ian Dallas, a native-born Scotsman, later reverted to Islam and joined the Shadhili Order of Sufis in Morocco. Upon the death of his Shaykh, Shaykh Al-'Arabi Ad-Darqawi, Dallas became the Shaykh of his own Order and assumed the name Shaykh Abdalqadir. He is still active today (2004) as the leader of the worldwide Murabitun movement of Sufis. He wrote a fictionalized account of his journey into Sufism in a novel, "The Book of Strangers." It is also said...
- Scott Steehn
I'm just a guy. An old, fat, smoking guy who has had enough. So I have made the decision to Stop Digging! It occurs to me the first step toward doing something is...DOING SOMETHING! Any step in the right direction is a positive move. And that's what I want my site to be about. I really don't have any ideas what I want it to be other than a place where I can chart my progress, write about it, hopefully inspire some folks and maybe even make a friend or two.
- Temple Northup
His brother is Seattle comedian Fred Northup, company member of Unexpected Productions.
- Josh McGonigle
- Tina Nicotera
- Padma Atluri
- Regina Corrado