- Katie Couric
Katherine Anne Couric (born January 7, 1957) is an American media personality who became well-known as co-host of NBC's "Today". In 2006, she made a highly publicized move from NBC to CBS, and on September 5, 2006 she became the first woman to solo-anchor the weekday evening news on one of the three traditional U.S. broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC). - David Horsey
David Horsey (born 1951) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist in the United States. His cartoons appear in the "Seattle Post-Intelligencer" and are syndicated to newspapers nationwide. Horsey was born in Evansville, Indiana and moved to Seattle, Washington at age 3. He began perfecting his craft as a cartoonist in the "Cascade", the school newspaper at Ingraham High School. - Dan Rather
Daniel Irvin Rather, Jr. (born October 31, 1931 in Wharton, Texas) is the former longtime anchor for the "CBS Evening News" and is now under contract and scheduled to serve as managing editor and anchor of a new television news magazine, "Dan Rather Reports", on the new cable channel HDNet. Rather was anchor of the "CBS Evening News" for 24 years, from March 9, 1981 to March 9, 2005. He also contributed to CBS' "60 Minutes". - James Brown
James Brown (born February 25, 1951), commonly called "J.B.", is an American sports announcer known for being the host of the Fox network's NFL pregame show "FOX NFL Sunday". Beginning with the 2006 NFL season, Brown hosted "The NFL Today" on CBS, and returned to play-by-play of CBS coverage of NCAA basketball, along with co-hosting the "Saturday Early Show". - 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. - Bill Moyers
Bill D. Moyers (born June 5, 1934 as Billy Don Moyers) is an American journalist and public commentator. Born in Hugo, Oklahoma, and raised in Texas, Moyers began his journalism career at age 16 as a cub reporter at the "Marshall News Messenger" in Marshall, Texas. He and his wife, Judith Davidson Moyers, have three grown children and five grandchildren. - Brian Williams
Brian Douglas Williams (born May 5, 1959) is an anchor and managing editor of "NBC Nightly News", the flagship evening news program of the NBC television network. Williams replaced former Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw on December 2, 2004. Previously, Williams was the network's chief correspondent at the White House and host of "The News with Brian Williams" on CNBC and MSNBC. - Anderson Cooper
Anderson Hays Cooper is an Emmy Award winning American journalist, author, and television personality. He currently works as the primary anchor of the CNN news show "Anderson Cooper 360°". The program is normally broadcast live from a New York City based studio; however, Cooper often broadcasts live, on location for breaking news stories. - 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. - Edward R. Murrow
Edward R. Murrow ( April 25 , 1908 - April 27 , 1965 ) is viewed by historians as one of the great figures who stood for honesty and integrity in American broadcast journalism during the middle of the 20th Century . His radio news broadcasts during World War II were eagerly followed by millions of radio listeners. - Salma Hayek
Salma Hayek Jiménez (born September 2, 1966) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated Mexican/American actress, Daytime Emmy-winning director, and an Emmy-nominated tv and film producer. Hayek has appeared in more than thirty films and performed as an actress outside of Hollywood in Mexico and Spain. Hayek's charitable work includes increasing awareness on violence against women and discrimination against immigrants. [1] - John Roberts
John D. Roberts (born November 15, 1956 in Toronto, Ontario) is a television journalist for CNN, where he is a co-anchor of CNN's flagship morning program American Morning. He anchors from Washington and New York. He also served as the second anchor of This Week at War and served as the Senior National Correspondent based in Washington, DC. He has also substituted for Anderson Cooper on "Anderson Cooper 360". - Walter Cronkite
Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. is a retired American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the "CBS Evening News" (1962–81). During the heyday of CBS News in the 1970s and 1980s he was often cited in viewer opinion polls as "the most trusted man in America", because of his professional experience and avuncular demeanor. - Lara Logan
Lara Logan (born March 29, 1971) is a television journalist and war correspondent. She is currently the Chief Foreign Correspondent for CBS News, filing reports for the "CBS Evening News" and "60 Minutes". - Lance Armstrong
Lance Armstrong Facing testicular cancer and not yet knowing his own fate, in 1997 champion cyclist Lance Armstrong established the Lance Armstrong Foundation, a non-profit organization that inspires and empowers people affected by cancer. This marked the beginning of Lance's role as an advocate for cancer survivors and a world representative for the cancer community. - Eric Alterman
Eric Alterman is currently the media columnist for The Nation and MSNBC.com. In recent years, he has also been a contributing editor to Worth, Rolling Stone, Elle, Mother Jones, World Policy Journal, and IntellectualCapital.com. He is the author of Sound & Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy (HarperCollins, 1992 and Cornell University Press, 2000), winner of the 1992 Orwell Award; Who Speaks for America? - Matt Lauer
Matt Lauer or Matthew Todd Lauer (December 30, 1957) is an American television personality, best known as a co-host of NBC's "The Today Show" (since 1994) after being a news anchor in New York and a local talk-show host in Boston, Philadelphia, Providence, and Richmond. He was also host of "PM Magazine" (or "Evening Magazine" 1980-1986) and worked for ESPN in the 1980s. - Helen Thomas
Helen Thomas (born August 4, 1920) is an American news service reporter, a Hearst Newspapers columnist , and member of the White House Press Corps . She served for fifty-seven years as a correspondent and, later, White House bureau chief for United Press International (UPI). Thomas has covered every president since John F. Kennedy . - 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. - Diane Sawyer
Lila Diane Sawyer is a television journalist for the U.S. network ABC News and co-anchor of ABC's "Good Morning America," along with Robin Roberts. In 2001 she was named one of the 30 most powerful women in America by "Ladies Home Journal". - Jim Romenesko
Jim Romenesko (born September 16, 1953) is an American journalist who runs the blog Romenesko on the website of the non-profit journalism school the Poynter Institute. The blog provides daily news, commentary, and insider information about journalism and media and has become popular among professionals in the industry. Romenesko graduated from Marquette University and went to work for the "Milwaukee Journal", serving as a police reporter for the newspaper. - Richard Engel
Richard Engel is NBC News' Middle East correspondent and Beirut Bureau chief. Prior to joining NBC News in May 2003, he covered the start of the 2003 war in Iraq from Baghdad for ABC News as a freelance journalist. He speaks and reads fluent Arabic and is also fluent in Italian and Spanish. Engel wrote the book "A Fist in the Hornet's Nest", published in 2004, about his experience covering the Iraq war from Baghdad. A winner of the Edward R. Murrow award, … - Charles Gibson
Charles "Charlie" Dewolf Gibson (born March 9, 1943), is an American media personality best known as co-anchor of "Good Morning America" on ABC from January 1987 to May 1998 and from January 1999 to June 28, 2006, a span of 19 years. On May 29, 2006, Gibson became the sole anchor of "ABC World News Tonight", later renamed "World News with Charles Gibson" on July 19, 2006. - Jayson Blair
Jayson Blair (born March 23, 1976, Columbia, Maryland) is an American former "New York Times" reporter who was forced to resign from the newspaper in May 2003, after he was caught plagiarizing and fabricating elements of his stories. - 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, … - David Swanson
David Swanson is the Washington Director of Democrats.com and of ImpeachPAC.org. He is co-founder of the AfterDowningStreet.org / CensureBush.org coalition, creator of MeetWithCindy.org and KatrinaMarch.org, and a board member of Progressive Democrats of America. He has worked as a newspaper reporter and as a communications director, with jobs including press secretary for Dennis Kucinich's 2004 presidential campaign, … - Mike Wallace
Mike Wallace (born Myron Leon Wallace on May 9, 1918) is an American journalist. Wallace has been a correspondent for CBS's "60 Minutes" since its debut in 1968. During his career at "60 Minutes", he has interviewed a wide range of prominent newsmakers, including Ayn Rand, Deng Xiaoping, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, Ayatollah Khomeini, Kurt Waldheim, Malcolm X, Yasser Arafat, Menachem Begin, Anwar Sadat, Manuel Noriega, Jeffrey Wigand, … - Ted Koppel
Edward James "Ted" Koppel (born February 8, 1940) is an American journalist, best known as the former anchorman for ABC's "Nightline". - 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. - John Stossel
John F. Stossel (born 6 March 1947) is a consumer reporter, author and co-anchor for the ABC News show "20/20". His reports, a blend of commentary and reporting, reflect his libertarian political philosophy, his views on economics (largely consistent with those of the Chicago school), and his skepticism of conventional wisdom. In his decades as a reporter, Stossel has garnered 19 Emmy Awards and numerous other honors for his reports, … - 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. - Bernard Shaw
Bernard Shaw (born May 22, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois) was a leading news anchor for CNN from 1980 to his retirement in 2001. He attended the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1963 to 1968. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps. Shaw is widely remembered for the question he posed to Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Michael Dukakis at his second Presidential debate with George H. W. Bush during the 1988 election, which Shaw was moderating. - Geraldo Rivera
Geraldo Miguel Rivera (born Gerald Michael Riviera on July 4, 1943 in Brooklyn, New York), is an American television journalist, attorney, and former talk show host. He is known to have an affinity for dramatic, high-profile stories, and issues that are often sidelined by traditional media, such as racism and hate-crimes. Rivera hosts the newsmagazine program "Geraldo at Large", and appears regularly on Fox News Channel. - Jim Vandehei
Jim VandeHei (1971-) is an American political reporter and co-founder of "The Politico". Previously, he was a national political reporter at the "Washington Post", where he worked as White House correspondent. He graduated from Lourdes High School in Oshkosh, Wis., in 1989. In 1995 he graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh with a double major in journalism and political science. While an undergraduate, he served an internship with Sen. - Brian Wilson
Brian Wilson (born February 15, 1956) is the vice president and Washington D.C. bureau chief for Fox News Channel. He is also the current chairman of the Capitol Hill Radio/TV Correspondents' Association. Prior to his current position, Wilson was the host of the Washington D.C. based weekend program, "Weekend Live," since 2003 (From 2003 until May 2006, he only previously anchored the Sunday edition). - Robin Roberts
Robin Roberts (b. 1960) is an American television broadcaster, who is the co-anchor of ABC's popular morning show "Good Morning America". Roberts' father was one of the Tuskegee Airmen. She grew up in Pass Christian, Mississippi, where she played basketball and tennis among other sports, and graduated from high school as the class salutatorian. She then attended Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana, … - Peter King
Peter King (b. 1957, Springfield, Massachusetts) is a well-respected football columnist for "Sports Illustrated", the author of five books, most notably "Inside the Helmet", as well as a TV analyst and reporter. Since 2006, he is a part of "Football Night in America", NBC's Sunday night NFL studio show. King graduated from Ohio University in 1979, and following graduation, began working for the Cincinnati Enquirer, … - John King
John King (born August 31,1964) is an American journalist. In 1985, King joined the Associated Press where he began as a writer. In 1987 he broke the story that a juror in the case of Benjamin LaGuer, an inmate proclaiming his innocence, accused other members of the panel of uttering racist remarks before and during deliberations. - Clay Shirky
Clay Shirky is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. He teaches New Media as an adjunct professor at New York University's (NYU) graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). His courses address, among other things, the interrelated effects of social and technological network topology, how our networks shape culture and vice-versa. - Debbie Schlussel
Debbie Schlussel (born April 9, 1969) is an American attorney, a conservative political commentator, a self-announced expert on Islam and a blogger.
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