- Bob Woodward
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. - Jesse Helms
Jesse Alexander Helms, Jr. (born October 18, 1921) is a former five-term Republican U.S. Senator from North Carolina and a former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He is considered one of the leading figures of the modern "Christian right". On April 2, 2006, Helms's wife of sixty-three years, Dorothy Jane "Dot" Coble Helms, announced that he is afflicted with multi-infarct dementia and had been moved to a convalescent facility near their Raleigh home. - David Simon
David Simon (born 1960) is an American author, journalist, and writer/producer of television shows based on his books. He is the creator and head writer of the highly acclaimed original HBO series "The Wire" - Ernie Pyle
Ernest Taylor "Ernie" Pyle (August 3, 1900 - April 18, 1945), was an American journalist who wrote as a roving correspondent for the Scripps Howard newspaper chain from 1935 until his death in 1945. His articles, about the out-of-the-way places he visited and the people who lived there, were told in a folksy style much like a personal letter to a friend. He enjoyed a loyal following in as many as 200 newspapers. - William Manchester
William Raymond Manchester (April 1, 1922 - June 1, 2004) was an American historian and biographer, notable as the bestselling author of 18 books that have been translated into 20 languages. - David Mills
David Mills is an American author, journalist, and screenwriter and producer of television programs. He was an executive producer and writer of the HBO miniseries "The Corner", for which he won two Emmy Awards, and the creator, executive producer, and writer of the NBC miniseries "Kingpin". - 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. - Bill Sammon
Bill Sammon is senior White House correspondent for the "Washington Examiner" (having left the same position at "The Washington Times" in February 2006), a political analyst for Fox News Channel, and the author of four "New York Times" bestsellers: "At Any Cost: How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election"; "Fighting Back: The War on Terrorism from Inside the White House"; "Misunderestimated: The President Battles Terrorism, … - Celestine Sibley
Celestine Sibley (1914-1999) was a renowned southern author, journalist, and syndicated columnist. She reported for the Atlanta Constitution from 1941 to 1999. Over her long career, she wrote more than 10,000 columns and many news stories of astonishing range, dealing with such varied topics as politics and key lime pie. Sibley was one of the most popular and long-running columnists for the Constitution, … - Norm Clarke
Norm Clarke (born 1942 in Terry, Montana) is an American gossip columnist for the "Las Vegas Review-Journal" in Las Vegas, Nevada. His column, "Vegas Confidential," covers celebrities and near-celebrities and their doings in the bright lights of "Sin City." The column appears almost every day. - Michael Walsh
Michael Walsh (May 4, 1810 - March 17, 1859) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Youghal, Cork, Ireland, he completed preparatory studies, was graduated from Trinity College, Dublin and emigrated to the United States, settling in Baltimore, Maryland. He learned the lithographic printing trade, and moved to New York City. He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1839. - Vin Suprynowicz
Vin Suprynowicz is a U.S. libertarian columnist who writes editorials for the Las Vegas, Nevada based "Las Vegas Review-Journal". He wrote a self-published science fiction novel in 2005 called "The Black Arrow". He wrote an essay called "Gun Grabbers: Masters of the New Plantation". He is also the author of two non-fiction compilations of his newspaper columns: "Send In the Waco Killers" and "The Ballad of Carl Drega". - Anneli Rufus
Anneli Rufus is an award-winning American journalist and author. Born in Los Angeles, California, she first went to college in Santa Barbara, then to the University of California, Berkeley. Rufus earned an English degree and became a journalist. She's written for many publications, including Salon.com, the "San Francisco Chronicle" and the "Boston Globe". Currently she is the literary editor for the "East Bay Express", an alternative weekly newspaper. - Richard Tregaskis
Richard William Tregaskis was an American journalist and author whose best-known work is "Guadalcanal Diary" (1943), an account of the U.S. Marines' invasion of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands during World War II. Tregaskis served as a war correspondent during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. - Robert Leslie Bellem
Robert Leslie Bellem was a prolific American pulp magazine writer, best known for his creation of Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective. He was born in either 1894 or 1902, and died in 1968. Before becoming a writer he worked in Los Angeles as a newspaper reporter, radio announcer and film extra. After the demise of the pulps, Bellem switched to writing for television, including a number of scripts for "The Lone Ranger", "The Adventures of Superman" (1950s version), … - Marjie Lundstrom
Marjie Lundstrom (born 1956), a reporter for "The Sacramento Bee", was a 1991 recipient of a journalism Pulitzer Prize. Lundstrom and Rochelle Sharp-at the time, both reporters for Gannett News Service-were jointly awarded the prize for National Reporting for a series of stories they wrote about child abuse-related deaths that go unreported. A journalism graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lundstrom has served on the staffs of "The Ft. - Robert Post
Robert Perkins Post (b. September 8, 1910--d. February 26, 1943) worked as a reporter for the "New York Times" during WWII. He was part of a group of eight reporters, known as the Legion of the Doomed or the Writing 69th, selected to fly bomber missions with United States Eighth Air Force over Germany. Post died over Oldenburg, Germany. - Tom Bowman
Tom Bowman is NPR's pentagon reporter and has been an investigative reporter for the "Baltimore Sun" for 19 years. Bowman has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He has been The Sun's military affairs correspondent since 1997. Before then he covered the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis and the National Security Agency. He has reported from Afghanistan and Iraq. His 1995 series, "No Such Agency," a six-part chronicle of NSA with reporter Scott Shane, … - Bob Wojnowski
Bob "Wojo" Wojnowski (born in Buffalo, New York, 1961-) is the co-host of the "Stoney and Wojo" radio show on WDFN in Detroit, Michigan and a reporter and columnist for the "Detroit News". Along with co-host Mike Stone, the "Stoney and Wojo" show has been a consistent ratings leader for years in the Detroit afternoon drive time slot. Wojnowski also appears often on Fox 2 WJBK's "Friday Night Sports Works" roundtable. - Nicholas Nicastro
Nicholas Nicastro is an American scholar and historical novelist. Born in Astoria, New York in 1963, he received a BA in English from Cornell University (1985), an MFA in filmmaking from New York University (1991), an M.A. in archaeology and a Ph.D. in psychology from Cornell (1996 and 2003). He has also worked as a film critic, a hospital orderly, a newspaper reporter, a library archivist, a college lecturer in anthropology and psychology, an animal behaviorist, … - Hartriono B. Sastrowardoyo
Hartriono Benjamin Sastrowardoyo (born May 19, 1969) is an American journalist reporting for the Metro section of "The Asbury Park Press", as well as its Community (features) section. Though Sastrowardoyo was born in the Morningside Heights section of New York City, he considers Brentwood, Long Island, his hometown. He was educated at SUNY Stony Brook and SUNY Oneonta, graduating from the latter in 1990. - Benjamin Fine
Benjamin Fine (b. September 1, 1905-d. May 16, 1975) was an American journalist and author. He worked at the New York Times from 1938 to 1958. Fine was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts and died while on vacation in Puson, South Korea. - John R. Irby
- Martin Dillon
Martin Dillon is an author and journalist from Ireland. He worked for eighteen-years at the BBC and has written a number of plays and novels, but he most well known for his non-fiction books about the north of Ireland conflict. He gained particular acclaim for his book on the Shankill Butchers, although this and other works on terrorism lead to him receiving death-threats from a number of terrorist groups, … - Betsy Stark
Betsy Stark is the business correspondent for ABC News. She regularly contributes reports on the U.S. and global economy, business trends and issues to "World News Tonight," "Good Morning America," "This Week" and other ABC News programs. Stark recently won an Emmy Award for a series of reports on the deteriorating state of pension benefits in the U.S. She has covered most of the major business stories of the past two decades including the Martha Stewart trial, Enron, … - Phil Keisling
Phil Keisling (born 1955) is a Portland, Oregon business executive and political activist who served as Oregon Secretary of State from 1991 to 1999. Prior to seeking public office, he pursued an earlier career in journalism, including six years as a reporter and correspondent in Portland and Washington, and two years as editor of Washington Monthly. He is a Democrat, and a member of the Democratic Leadership Council. - Gary Michael Green
Gary Michael Green was once known as one of America's most intense folk singers, civil rights and union organizers and advocate of Native American rights. His three record albums, recorded in the 1970s on New York’s legendary Folkways records became part of the Smithsonian’s collection in the 1980s. - Stephen Bonsal
Stephen Bonsal (March 29, 1865 - June 8, 1951) was an American historian, essayist, diplomat and translator. - John Yoo
John Yoo is a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), where he has taught since 1993. From 2001-03, he served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked on issues involving foreign affairs, national security, and the separation of powers. Professor Yoo received his B.A. summa cum laude in American history from Harvard. - William A. Price
William A. Price was an American journalist who worked as the police reporter for the "New York Daily News" from 1940-1955. He is one of many low-level, not-so-famous journalists to be fired and labeled as outcasts because of their alleged affiliations with the Communist Party. Price was subpoenaed by the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee in November 1955, he testified the following January. He was one of 34 journalists, out of a total of 35 subpoenas, … - William M. Kavanaugh
William Marmaduke Kavanaugh, (1866-1915), was a Democratic United States Senator from the State of Arkansas. William Marmaduke Kavanaugh was born near Eutaw, Green County, Alabama on 3 March 1866. Kavanaugh attended public schools in Kentucky and graduated from the Kentucky Military Institute at Farmdale, Kentucky in 1885. Kavanaugh moved to Little Rock, Arkansas where he worked as a newspaper reporter and later as editor and manager of the "Arkansas Gazette". - Hans von Kaltenborn
Hans von Kaltenborn (July 9, 1878 - June 14, 1965) was an American radio commentator. He was heard regularly on the radio for over 30 years, beginning with CBS in 1928. He was generally known as H.V. Kaltenborn. He was known for his highly precise diction, his ability to ad lib and his depth of knowledge of world affairs. Kaltenborn was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He began his career as a newspaper reporter, … - Winifred Bonfils
Winifred Sweet Black Bonfils (born October 14, 1863, Chilton, Wisconsin; died May 25, 1936, San Francisco, California) was an American reporter and columnist for William Randolph Hearst's news syndicate writing as Winifred Black, and for the San Francisco Examiner as Annie Laurie. She was one of the most prominent "sob sisters", a label given female reporters who wrote human interest stories. Her first husband was Orlow Black, and her second was publisher Charles Bonfils. - Mark Charles Merenda
Mark Charles Merenda (born September 13, 1950) is the author of articles and books, including "Satan's Harvest" published by Dell with co-author Michael Lasalandra in 1990 and made into a movie in 1995 "The Possession of Michael D." (1995) (TV). - Thomas R St George
- Ben Bova
Galaxyonline.com, the largest science fiction and science fact related Interactive online network in the universe, announced today that renowned author and futurist Dr. Ben Bova has recently signed on as supersite publisher and senior vice president. - Walt Whitman
Walter Whitman was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. Proclaimed the "greatest of all American poets" by many foreign observers a mere four years after his death, he is viewed as the first urban poet. He was a part of the transition between Transcendentalism and Realism, incorporating both views in his works. His works have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. - Margaret Peterson Haddix
Margaret Peterson Haddix is the best-selling author of many books for children and teens. Her books for young readers include Running Out of Time, Among the Hidden, Among the Impostors, Among the Betrayed, and The Girl with 500 Middle Names. - Dave Hughes
Dave is a Senior Editor focusing on avionics, air traffic control, aviation security, information technology and homeland security. He served in the U.S. Air Force Reserve from 1972 to 1993. As a USAF pilot he has 2,300 hours in heavy jets including the C-5 and C-141. - Jennifer E. Greaney
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