- Howard Kurtz
Howard Alan Kurtz (born 1953, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American journalist, blogger, author and media critic. Kurtz is the primary media writer for the "Washington Post". Kurtz is the host of CNN's "Reliable Sources" and has written for "The New Republic", the "Washington Monthly", and "New York Magazine". He is frequently cited as media writer and expert on media trends. He writes a column for the Post on media trends and issues.
- Michael Isikoff
Michael Isikoff is an investigative journalist for the United States-based magazine "Newsweek". Born in Syosset, New York. He joined the magazine as an investigative correspondent in June, 1994, and has written extensively on the US government’s War on Terrorism, the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse, campaign finance and congressional ethics abuses, presidential politics and other national issues. Isikoff had been prepared to break the Monica Lewinsky scandal, …
- 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.
- Dana Milbank
Dana T. Milbank (born 27 April, 1968) is an American political reporter for "The Washington Post". He is a graduate of Yale University, where he became a member of the secretive society Skull and Bones. Milbank covered the 2000 US Presidential election and the 2004 US Presidential election. He also covered US President George W. Bush's first term in office.
- 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".
- Dan Froomkin
My brother Dan has a good memory, and uses it to write A refresher on how the press failed the people (on Iraq) at Nieman Watchdog. ... I've added a Washington Post "widget" to the right margin that promotes my brother's column. I like the column; I don't like the widget very much - it blinks too much. But I'm going to try it for at least a few days before I decide if it's too distracting. It's probably time to re-design the entire site, but I just don't have the time.
- George Will
George Frederick Will (born May 4, 1941) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning, conservative American newspaper columnist, journalist, and author.
- 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.
- La Shawn Barber
La Shawn Barber is a black conservative columnist and blogger who lives in the Washington D.C. area. Barber is a native of South Carolina. An alcoholic in her younger years, Barber took a vow of sobriety and abstinence shortly before her thirtieth birthday. She later moved to Washington, D.C. to serve as a legislative correspondent for a Democratic senator. She eventually converted to Christianity, became a political conservative, and pursued writing.
- David Ignatius
PostGlobal co-moderator David Ignatius is a Washington Post columnist with a wide-ranging career in journalism, having served at various times as a reporter, foreign correspondent and editor. He has also written widely for magazines and published six novels. Ignatius's twice-weekly column on global politics, economics and international affairs debuted on The Washington Post op-ed page in January 1999, and has been syndicated worldwide by The Washington Post Writers Group.
- Daniel Pipes
Daniel Pipes (born September 9, 1949) is an American historian and counter-terrori sm analyst who specializes in the Middle East. He has written or co-written 18 books, maintains a blog, and lectures around the world presenting his analysis of world trends. His work has attracted both admiration and criticism as a result of his view that Islamism is incompatible with democracy, freedom, multiculturalis m, and human rights.
- Dave Barry
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.
- Jonathan Alter
Jonathan Alter is a columnist and senior editor for "Newsweek" magazine, where he has worked since 1983. A Chicago native and resident of Montclair, New Jersey, he is also a contributing correspondent to NBC News, where since 1996 he has appeared regularly on NBC, MSNBC and CNBC. In addition, he can be heard frequently on cancelled "Imus in the Morning," and "The Al Franken Show" on Air America Radio.
- Tom Toles
Thomas Gregory Toles (born October 22, 1951) is a United States political cartoonist. He is the winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. Similar to Oliphant's use of his character Punk, Toles also tends to include a small doodle, usually a small caricature of himself at his desk, in the margin of his strip. Toles left "The Buffalo News" in 2002, accepting an offer from "The Washington Post" to replace Herblock, their late, …
- Richard Cohen
Richard Cohen, a syndicated columnist for the "Washington Post", is a graduate of Far Rockaway High School and attended Hunter College, NYU, and Columbia University. He is a four-time honorable-mention winner in Pulitzer Prize competitions, and is now a journalism professor at Columbia University. Cohen splits his time between Washington, D.C. and New York City.
- Anne Applebaum
Anne Applebaum (born 25 July 1964) is a journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has written extensively about communism and the development of civil society in Eastern Europe and the USSR / Russia. As of 2006, she is a columnist and member of the editorial board of the "Washington Post". Born in Washington, DC in 1964, she was a 1982 graduate of the Sidwell Friends School.
- Michael Wilbon
Michael Raymond Wilbon (born November 19, 1958) is an American sportswriter and columnist. He is a columnist for "The Washington Post", has co-hosted "Pardon the Interruption" on ESPN since 2001, and serves as an analyst for ESPN.
- Tony Kornheiser
Anthony Irwin Kornheiser (born July 13, 1948) is an American sportswriter and columnist for "The Washington Post", as well as a radio and television talk show host. Kornheiser has hosted "The Tony Kornheiser Show" on radio in various forms since 1992; co-hosted "Pardon the Interruption" on ESPN since 2001; and served as an analyst for ESPN's "Monday Night Football" since 2006. He is well known for his savage wit and sarcastic humor in print, …
- Eugene Robinson
Eugene Robinson (born 1955) is a newspaper columnist and assistant managing editor for "The Washington Post". His columns are syndicated by The Washington Post Writers Group. In his columns he generally espouses left-wing views, and often criticizes President George W. Bush for his perceived domestic- and foreign-policy failures, especially the Iraq War. He is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists. Robinson was born and grew up in Orangeburg, …
- Brent Bozell
BRENT BOZELL, President of the Media Research Center: Well, you know, I'm institutionally sympathetic to the idea that a spouse should be off-limits if the spouses want to be off-limits, if the spouse isn't participating in the political process. In this case, you've got a spouse who is well-informed, well-educated, well-spoken and outspoken on the campaign trail campaigning on behalf of her husband. So absolutely she's fair game. Of course she is.
- David Sirota
David Sirota is the bestselling author of the books "Hostile Takeover" (2006) and "The Uprising" (2008). He is a fellow at the Campaign for America's Future and a board member of the Progressive States Network - both nonpartisan organizations. E-mail him at ds@davidsirota.com.
- Ruth Marcus
Ruth Marcus is a journalist who currently writes an op-ed column for the "Washington Post". In March of 2007, she was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in commentary, according to a leak of the nominees given to "Editor and Publisher". Marcus wrote for the "National Law Journal" before attending Harvard Law School, from which she graduated in 1984. She began writing for the "Post" while still in law school, …
- Carl Bernstein
Carl Bernstein (February 14, 1944) is an American journalist who, as a reporter for "The Washington Post" along with Bob Woodward, broke the story of the Watergate break-in and consequently helped bring about the resignation of US president Richard Nixon. For his role in breaking the scandal, Bernstein received many awards; his work helped earn the "Post" a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1973.
- David Martin
David J. Martin (born March 23, 1950) is a Canadian humorist and newspaper columnist. His columns have appeared in many major North American newspapers including the "New York Times", the "Los Angeles Times", the "Washington Post", the "Globe and Mail" and the "Chicago Tribune", including at least one about Wikipedia. As of 2007, he lived in Ottawa, Ontario.
- Dan Steinberg
Dan Steinberg is an American sportswriter and blogger for "The Washington Post", as well as a television blog show host. "The New Zen Master of the Sports Blogosphere". The thirty year old Dan Steinberg writes the DC Sports Blog for the Washington Post and plays the "bald headed fashionista" on Comcast's Washington Post Live television sports show.
- Chuck Todd
Chuck Todd is a political analyst and author, and political director and on-air analyst for NBC News. He is an occasional contributor to other news outlets, including MSNBC.com and the Atlantic Monthly. Until March 12, 2007, Todd was the editor-in-chief of National Journal's The Hotline. As part of his position, Todd also co-hosted, with John Mercurio, the webcast series Hotline TV, …
- Norman Solomon
Norman Solomon (1951-) is an American journalist, media critic and antiwar activist. A longtime associate of the media watch group Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR), Solomon is also the founder and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, a national consortium of policy researchers and analysts which works pro-actively to provide alternative sources for journalists. His weekly column, "Media Beat", has been in national syndication since 1992.
- Brian Lamb
Brian Patrick Lamb (born October 9, 1941) helped found the C-SPAN television network in 1979, and has been its chief executive officer since its founding. He hosts "Washington Journal" once a week, and hosted the C-SPAN show "Booknotes" from 1989 to 2004. Lamb now hosts a weekly one-hour program called "Q&A" in which he interviews people from a wide range of backgrounds, such as journalists, teachers, politicians, authors, and technology innovators.
- Robert Kagan
Robert Kagan is a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he specializes in issues of U.S. leadership and foreign policy. He is co-founder with William Kristol of the Project for a New American Century. Before joining the Carnegie Endowment, he worked in the State Department as a member of the Policy Planning Staff and as principal speech writer for Secretary of State George P. Shultz during the Reagan Administration.
- Carolyn Hax
Carolyn Hax (born December 5, 1966 in Bridgeport, Connecticut) is a writer and columnist for the Washington Post and the author of the advice column Tell Me About It (which has since been retitled simply Carolyn Hax ). The column is geared toward...
- Dana Priest
Dana Priest is an author and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. Priest has worked almost twenty years for "The Washington Post". As one of the "Washington Post's" specialists on National Security she has written many articles on the United States' "War on terror". In February 2006, Ms. Priest was awarded the George Polk Award for National Reporting for her November 2005 article on secret CIA detention facilities in foreign countries.
- Conan O'Brien
Conan Christopher O'Brien (born April 18, 1963) is an Emmy-winning American comedian, writer and television personality best known as host of NBC's late-night talk/variety show "Late Night with Conan O'Brien". NBC has announced that O'Brien will take over for Jay Leno as host of "The Tonight Show" in 2009.
- Robert J. Samuelson
Robert J. Samuelson is a contributing editor of Newsweek and "Washington Post" where he has written about business and economic issues since 1977. His columns appear biweekly in both publications. His articles also appear in the "The Los Angeles Times", the "The Boston Globe", and other influential newspapers. He began his career in journalism as a reporter on the business desk of The Washington Post 1969.
- Stephen Hunter
Stephen Hunter (born March 25, 1946) is an American novelist, essayist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic.
- Pat Tillman
Patrick Daniel Tillman (November 6 1976 - April 22 2004) was an American football player who left his professional sports career and enlisted in the United States Army in May 2002, along with his brother Kevin Tillman. Tillman was the first professional football player to be killed in combat since the death of Bob Kalsu of the Buffalo Bills, who died in the Vietnam War in 1970. Tillman was posthumously promoted from Specialist to Corporal.
- Jane Mayer
Jane Mayer (born 1955 in New York City) is an American investigative journalist who has been a staff writer for "The New Yorker" since 1995. In recent years, she has written extensive articles for that publication on Dick Cheney, the bin Laden family, and the US government's controversial policy of extraordinary rendition.
- 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.
- Lisa de Moraes
Lisa de Moraes is a noted television columnist. Her writings, titled "The TV Column," appear regularly (but not on any particular schedule) in the Style section of "The Washington Post". As opposed to a TV critic such as the "Post"'s Tom Shales, de Moraes's columns deal mainly with the business of television, such as scheduling. Her columns are written in a distinctively irreverent tone; they usually strongly imply her opinions on the subject matter.
- Jay Mathews
Jay Mathews (born April 5, 1945, in Long Beach, California) is an author, education reporter and online columnist with the "Washington Post". Mathews attended Hillsdale High School in San Mateo, California, Occidental and Harvard Colleges and is a Vietnam veteran. He started at the Post in 1971, writing news reports and books about China, disability rights, the stock market, and several educational topics.
- Thomas Boswell
Thomas Boswell (born 1948) is a sports columnist for the "Washington Post". He is the author of several best-selling books, most of which are collections of his Post columns and other previously published works. While he writes about a variety of sports, he is primarily associated with baseball. He is known for a literary, poetic approach to writing about the game. The late Shirley Povich once called him "a student and unmatched chronicler-philosopher" of baseball.