- Maureen Dowd
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.
- Frank Rich
Frank Rich (born June 2, 1949 in Washington, D.C.) is a columnist for "The New York Times". His column focuses on American politics and popular culture. His column ran on the front page of the Sunday arts and leisure section from 2003 to 2005; it now appears in the expanded Sunday op-ed section. From 1980 to 1993, Rich was the "Times"' chief theater critic.
- Paul Krugman
Paul Robin Krugman (born February 28 , 1953 ) is an American economist . Krugman is currently a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University . He is also an author and a columnist for The New York Times , writing a twice-weekly op-ed for the newspaper since 2000.
- Nicholas D. Kristof
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, …
- John Edwards
John Edwards (born 21 November, 1954, in New York City) is an American technology writer. Edwards has written for various print and online publications, including "The New York Times, The Washington Post, MSNBC, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsday, CFO Magazine, CIO Magazine, Men's Health," and "American Way" (American Airlines' in-flight magazine).
- Bob Herbert
Bob Herbert (born March 7, 1945 in Brooklyn, NY), is an op-ed columnist for "The New York Times". His column is syndicated to other newspapers around the country. He is distinguished by his frequent columns on poverty and criticism of the war in Iraq. He has written many works attacking racism and American political apathy towards race issues.
- 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, …
- David Brooks
Mr. Brooks joined The Weekly Standard at its inception in September 1995, having worked at The Wall Street Journal for the previous nine years. His last post at the Journal was as op-ed editor. Prior to that, he was posted in Brussels, covering Russia, the Middle East, South Africa and European affairs. His first post at the Journal was as editor of the book review section, and he filled in for five months as the Journal's movie critic.
- 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.
- A. O. Scott
Anthony O. Scott (born July 10, 1966) is a film critic for "The New York Times" newspaper. He began his tenure at the paper's Arts section in January 2000, following Janet Maslin's retirement. Before joining "The Times", Scott was a book critic for "Newsday" as well as a contributor to the "New York Review of Books" and "Slate". Son of the well-known historian Joan Wallach Scott, he attended public schools in Providence, Rhode Island, …
- A.O. Scott
A.O. "Tony" Scott (b. July 10, 1966) is a film critic for "The New York Times" newspaper. He began his tenure at the paper's Arts section in January 2000, following Janet Maslin's retirement. Before joining "The Times", Scott was a book critic for "Newsday" as well as a contributor to the "New York Review of Books" and "Slate". Son of the well-known historian Joan Wallach Scott, he attended public schools in Providence, Rhode Island, …
- Thomas Friedman
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.
- 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 .
- Roger Cohen
Roger Cohen is a columnist for the "International Herald Tribune", a publication of "The New York Times". His columns focus on international politics and relations. Cohen, a graduate of Oxford University, was born on August 2, 1955, in London. He has won numerous awards and honors for his books and for his distinguished foreign correspondence.
- Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges is a senior fellow at The Nation Institute and a Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University. Chris spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He is the author of the best selling "War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning," which was a finalist for The National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.
- E. J. Dionne
Dionne began his twice-weekly op-ed column for The Washington Post in 1993. In 1996, it was syndicated by The Washington Post Writers Group, and he now appears in more than 90 newspapers in the United States and abroad. Dionne joined The Post in 1990 as a reporter covering national politics. His best-selling book, Why Americans Hate Politics (Simon & Schuster), was published in 1991.
- Virginia Postrel
Virginia I. Postrel (born 14 January 1960) is an American political and cultural writer of broadly libertarian, or classical liberal, views. She is best known for her two non-fiction books, "The Future and Its Enemies" and "The Substance of Style". In the former she explains her philosophy, "dynamism," a forward-looking and change-seeking philosophy which generally favors unregulated organization through "spontaneous order".
- Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden is an American writer, music critic, and film critic. He first achieved prominence in the 1970s writing for "Rolling Stone" magazine, where he tended to cover singer songwriter and traditional pop artists. He subsequently became a longstanding music and film critic for "The New York Times".
- Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr is an American film critic. He was a critic at the "The Chicago Reader". As of 2007, he writes a weekly column on DVD releases for "The New York Times", in addition to occasional pieces on individual films or filmmakers. He also maintains a film blog with reviews of films and occasional comment pieces.
- John Markoff
John Markoff (born October 24, 1949) is a journalist best known for his work at the "The New York Times", and a book and series of articles about the 1990s pursuit and capture of hacker Kevin Mitnick.
- 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), …
- 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.
- Janet Maslin
The question (not burning, perhaps--except for the poor dupes who suffered through the charmless Phantom because the Times recommended it) is how Maslin comes by this generosity. The paranoid explanation is that the paper's growing dependence on movie ads compels her, in some oblique and unconscious way, to be an industry booster. Or it could be that Maslin is a little too well connected for a film critic, as some detractors have charged, and afraid to hurt her friends' feelings.
- Daniel Altman
Daniel Altman is the Global Economics Correspondent of the "International Herald Tribune", for which he moderates a blog called Managing Globalization. He is also a Sunday economics columnist for "The New York Times". His first book, "Neoconomy: George W. Bush's Revolutionary Gamble With America's Future", was published in 2004 by PublicAffairs. His second book, "Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy", was published by Farrar, …
- James Risen
James Risen is a reporter for "The New York Times" and previously the "Los Angeles Times". He has written or co-written several articles concerning United States government activities, as well as two books about the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
- Katha Pollitt
Katha Pollitt (born October 14, 1949 in New York City) is an American feminist writer.
- Brad Stone
Brad Stone is an American journalist and writer. He is a technology correspondent for "The New York Times". Stone is an alumnus of Columbia University, having graduated in 1993. In 2003, he published his first book, "Gearheads" (ISBN 0-7432-2951-7), about the combat robot culture. Stone lives in San Francisco with his wife, Jennifer Granick.
- Jake Tapper
Jake Tapper (born March 12, 1969) is a journalist working for ABC News in Washington, DC. Born in New York City, he was raised in Philadelphia. For high school, he attended Akiba Hebrew Academy. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1991 with a B.A. in history modified by visual studies. He briefly attended graduate school at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television.
- Linda Greenhouse
Linda Greenhouse is the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for "The New York Times", covering the United States Supreme Court. She has covered the Court since 1978, with the exception of two years during the mid-1980s during which she covered the Congress. She has also been a regular guest on the PBS program "Washington Week" since 1980.
- Howell Raines
Howell Hiram Raines (born February 5, 1943 in Birmingham, Alabama) was Executive Editor of "The New York Times" from 2001 until his resignation following the Jayson Blair scandal in 2003. He currently writes political commentary for British newspaper "The Guardian".
- Michael Cieply
Michael Cieply (born 1951) is an entertainment industry writer, first for the Wall Street Journal and then for Talk magazine. In the 1990s, he also worked as a film producer for Sony. He is currently a staff editor in the Culture section of "The New York Times".
- 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.
- Will Clarke
Will Clarke (born 13 August 1970) is an American novelist who is the author of "Lord Vishnu's Love Handles: A Spy Novel (sort of)" and "The Worthy: A Ghost's Story". Clarke graduated from Lousiana State University, where he also became a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. A native of Shreveport, Louisiana, Clarke originally self-published both books via the Internet and independent books stores like Book Soup in Los Angeles, BookPeople in Austin, …
- Ted Koppel
Edward James "Ted" Koppel (born February 8, 1940) is an American journalist, best known as the former anchorman for ABC's "Nightline".
- Daniel Ellsberg
In the 1960s, Ellsberg was a strategic analyst at the RAND Corporation, then a consultant to the Defense Department and the White House. He worked on the Top Secret McNamara study of U.S Decision-making in Vietnam. In 1969, he photocopied the 7,000 page study of Vietnam for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and gave a copy to The New York Times.
- Adam Liptak
Adam Liptak (born September 2, 1960 in Stamford, Connecticut) is an American journalist, lawyer and instructor in journalism. He is currently the national legal correspondent for "The New York Times". Liptak has also written articles for "Rolling Stone", the "New York Observer", "Business Week" and other publications. He is a graduate of Yale Law School and has served in the general counsel's office of "The New York Times".
- Floyd Norris
Floyd Norris is the chief financial correspondent of "The New York Times" and "The International Herald Tribune". He writes a regular column on the stock market for the Times, plus a blog. Floyd Norris is one of the best financial writers. He calls the shots without regard to whose toes he's stepping on, whether it be the CEO of a big NYT advertiser, the Chairman of the SEC or the Secretary of the Treasury.
- David E. Sanger
David E. Sanger — born on July 5, 1960 in White Plains, New York — is White House correspondent for "The New York Times". A 1982 graduate of Harvard College, Sanger has been writing for "The New York Times" for over 24 years covering New York, Tokyo and, most recently, Washington, D.C.. He has reported on such issues as foreign policy, globalisation, nuclear proliferation, Asian affairs, and the revitalisation of Boston's Parker House Hotel.
- James Fallows
James Fallows is a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly and has worked for the magazine for more than 25 years. He has written for the magazine on a wide range of topics, including national security policy, American politics, the development and impact of technology, economic trends and patterns, and U.S. relations with the Middle East, Asia, and other parts of the world.
- Katharine Q. Seelye
Katharine Q. Seelye is a political reporter for "The New York Times".