Following is a list of notable alumni and faculty of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism , a graduate school of the American Columbia University , located in New York City , New York .
Adamu Adamu , minister of education in Nigeria
Margot Adler , anchor, National Public Radio
Ebenezer Ako-Adjei , Ghanaian politician; a founding father of Ghana ; member of the Big Six
Jeannine Amber , journalist and author; former senior writer at Essence.
Daniel Arnall , executive producer for news, Bloomberg Television ; former senior producer for business coverage, ABC News
Amotz Asa-El , senior commentator, former executive editor, Jerusalem Post .
Spencer Bailey , editor-in-chief, Surface
Russ Baker , investigative reporter, founder of The Real News Project and editor-in-chief of whowhatwhy.org.
David W. Ball , novelist and short-story writer[ 1]
Wayne Barrett , senior editor and investigative reporter, Village Voice
Ralph Begleiter , distinguished journalist in residence, University of Delaware
Elizabeth Benjamin , political reporter, Daily News
Robert Henry Best , propagandist for Nazi Germany
Ryan Blitstein , freelance business reporter
Louis Boccardi , retired CEO, Associated Press ; Freedom Forum Foundation
Geraldine Brooks , Pulitzer Prize -winning novelist
Paul J. Browne , vice president public affairs, University of Notre Dame; former deputy commissioner of the New York City Police Department
Pat Buchanan , Republican party strategist, presidential advisor, presidential candidate, conservative columnist, television commentator
Elizabeth Bumiller , correspondent, The New York Times
Greg Burke , senior communications adviser with Vatican 's Secretariat of State (2012–)
Marcy Burstiner , professor of journalism
Robert Campbell , architect and journalist; former architecture critic, The Boston Globe
Bennett Cerf , co-founder of Random House (deceased)
Selina Cheng , Chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association [ 2]
David Cho , journalist for The Washington Post
Gina Chua , executive editor, Reuters [ 3] [ 4]
Leah Hager Cohen , writer, formerly of Houghton Mifflin
Lisa R. Cohen , Emmy -winning television producer, author
Richard Cohen , former reporter and columnist, Washington Post
Sheila Coronel , Academic Dean at Columbia Journalism School and winner of the 2003 Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and the Creative Communication Arts
Judith Crist , film and television critic; professor, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
May Cutler , publisher, founder of Tundra Books ; first Canadian woman to publish children's books ;[ 5] first woman to serve as Mayor of Westmount, Quebec [ 5]
Sadanand Dhume , author
Jonathan Dunn-Rankin , actor, television journalist and gay activist[ 6]
Barkha Dutt , former managing director, NDTV 24/7, India
Yashica Dutt , writer
Jim Dwyer , reporter, The New York Times
Thomas Byrne Edsall , Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor, Columbia School of Journalism 2006–2014; The Washington Post ; contributing op-ed writer The New York Times
Alan Ehrenhalt , senior editor for Governing , contributing writer to The New York Times , etc.
Aatos Erkko , Finnish publishing magnate, owner of Sanoma Corporation , son of foreign minister Eljas Erkko
Lolis Eric Elie , journalist, documentary filmmaker; Columbia Graduate School of Journalism "2012 Alumni of the Year"
Helen Epstein arts journalist, author Children of the Holocaust and nine other no-fiction books
Stephan Faris , freelance journalist, has written from Africa and Middle East, primarily for Time magazine
Howard Fineman , editorial director and reporter for The Huffington Post ; MSNBC contributor
Rob Fishman , co-founder of Niche, a company acquired by Twitter
Cardinal John P. Foley , Grand Master of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre
Scottie McKenzie Frasier , author, newspaper editor, suffragist
Peter M. Gianotti, former wine, spirits and restaurant critic, Newsday
Robert Giles , curator, The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University
David Gonzalez , journalist, The New York Times
John M. Goshko , M.A., journalist for The Washington Post [ 7]
Ellen Louise Graham , journalist at the Wall Street Journal and 1999 Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Mel Gussow , former theatre critic, The New York Times (deceased)
LynNell Hancock , education writer; professor, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
Donna Hanover , co-host, WOR radio morning show; ex-wife of Rudy Giuliani
James Higdon , author of a nonfiction book on the Cornbread Mafia , cannabis journalist for POLITICO and the Washington Post
Jessica Huseman , editorial director of Votebeat
Hy Hollinger , entertainment trade editor and journalist (The Hollywood Reporter , Variety )[ 8]
Molly Ivins , reporter, author and syndicated political columnist
Joseph Jackson , assistant drama editor at The New York World and Hollywood screenwriter[ 9]
Paul Janensch , former executive editor of The Courier-Journal
Nigel Jaquiss , Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for Willamette Week
Soterios Johnson , host of NPR ’s Morning Edition on WNYC
Mary Jordan , Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist for the Washington Post
Kwame Karikari , Ghanaian journalist and academic; Director General of Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (1982–1984)
Frederick Kempe , president and chief executive officer, Atlantic Council of the United States
Philip Klein (editor)
Steve Kroft , journalist, 60 Minutes
Madeleine M. Kunin , former Governor of Vermont ; Marsh scholar-professor at large, University of Vermont ; founder of Institute for Sustainable Communities
Howard Kurtz , media reporter, The Washington Post ; host of CNN 's "Reliable Sources "
Erik Larson , author of The Devil in the White City ; contributor, Time magazine; 2004 Edgar Award ; finalist National Book Award
Bernard Le Grelle , Belgian investigative journalist, political adviser, author, former United Nations expert and public affairs executive.
Joseph Lelyveld , former executive editor and columnist, The New York Times ; Pulitzer Prize -winning journalist and author
Juanita León , Colombian journalist; and founder, La Silla Vacía website
Flora Lewis , foreign-affairs columnist, The New York Times (deceased)
Bill Lichtenstein , Peabody Award-winning print and broadcast journalist and documentary producer and president, Lichtenstein Creative Media
A. J. Liebling , journalist closely associated with The New Yorker from 1935 until his death
Kathryn Lilley , mystery writer
Samuel Lubell , journalist, pollster, and political commentator; National Book Award for Nonfiction finalist (1957)
Robert L. Lynn , president of Louisiana College from 1975 to 1997; former journalist[ 10]
Andrea Mackris , CNN producer
Suzanne Malveaux , White House correspondent, CNN
Gabriele Marcotti , sports writer
Mark Mathabane , writer and lecturer
Eileen McNamara , Pulitzer Prize -winning columnist, The Boston Globe ; professor of journalism at Brandeis University
John McWethy , former national security correspondent, ABC News (deceased)
Andrew Meldrum , South African correspondent, The Guardian and The Observer
Carol Marbin Miller , Senior Investigative Reporter, The Miami Herald
Janice Min , media executive, oversees Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter , former editor of Us Weekly
Michele Montas , spokesperson, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon ; formerly with Radio Haiti
Alfred de Montesquiou , reporter, laureate of the French Prix Albert Londres , documentary film director.
Walt Mossberg , executive editor, The Verge and co-founder, Re/code
Ali Mustafa , broadcast journalist, CNBC 2005–2006, Dawn News TV 2006–2009
Alanna Nash , journalist and biographer; Society of Professional Journalists ' 1994 National Member of the Year
Viveca Novak , Washington correspondent for Time ; frequent guest on CNN , NBC , PBS , and Fox
Timothy L. O'Brien , editor, The New York Times ' Sunday Business section; has written for The Wall Street Journal
Mirta Ojito , contributor, The New York Times ; Pulitzer Prize winner for National Reporting in 2001; professor, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
Ralph Judson Palmer , California newspaper publisher
Malini Parthasarathy , former editor, The Hindu
Natalie Pawelski , journalist and television correspondent
Basharat Peer (Journalist) – Kashmiri American journalist, script writer, author, and political commentator. Author, Curfewed Night
Gabe Pressman (1924–2017), long-time New York City reporter[ 11]
John Quiñones , ABC News host and correspondent
Eli Rallo , Author, Social Media Influencer
Narasimhan Ram , editor-in-chief, The Hindu
Zoe Ramushu , South Africa based Zimbabwean writer, director, producer
Robin Reisig , professor, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
Gianni Riotta , editor-in-chief of Il Sole 24 Ore , former editor in chief of TG1 (RAI )
Geraldo Rivera , television reporter and talk show host
Manuel Rivera-Ortiz , documentary photographer
Tanya Rivero , anchor, ABC News Now
B. H. "Johnny" Rogers , former member of both houses of Louisiana State Legislature , faculty member at LSU (deceased)[ 12]
Gloria Rojas , television journalist[ 13]
James Rosen , journalist and novelist
Tom Rosenstiel , director, Project for Excellence in Journalism
Saskia de Rothschild , journalist, director of the Chateau Lafite Rothschild
Wendy Ruderman , journalist, 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
Christine Sadler , author, journalist, magazine editor (deceased)
Dick Schaap , sports journalist, author (deceased)
Andre Sennwald , New York Times motion picture critic (deceased)
Evelyn Sharp , real estate businesswoman who owned the Beverly Wilshire Hotel
Gail Sheehy , author
Howard Simons , former curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism
Allan Sloan , columnist and editor-at-large, Fortune Magazine
Craig S. Smith , Shanghai bureau director of The New York Times and managing director for China
Sherry Sontag , journalist and co-author of Blind Man’s Bluff, the Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage, NYTimes bestseller, a best book Investigative Reporters and Editors, winner of the Theodore and Franklin Delano Roosevelt History Prize.
Olivia Smith (journalist) , Emmy award-winning journalist
Sreenath Sreenivasan , professor, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism; technology reporter
Guy Sterling , journalist and The Star Ledger and historian of Newark, NJ history.
Alexander Stille , author; contributor, New York Magazine ; San Paolo Professor of International Journalism at Columbia University
Ron Suskind , author and investigative journalist; former reporter, The Wall Street Journal ; Pulitzer Prize winner for Feature Writing in 1995
Tara Sutton , reporter, filmmaker
Kosuke Takahashi , journalist, television commentator and former editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Japan
Maria Luisa Tucker , writer[ 14]
Mariana van Zeller , Peabody Award-winning television journalist
Robert Whitcomb , American newspaperman, author
Doris Willens , journalist, playwright and folk singer in the Baby Sitters
Valerie Wilson Wesley , author; former executive editor, Essence magazine
Emil Wilbekin , author; former editor-in-chief of Vibe and Giant , and editor-at-large of Essence magazine, founder of Native Son Now, Black & gay rights activist
Emily Witt , author, contributor The New Yorker
Wayne Worcester , crime novelist; professor of journalism, University of Connecticut
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^ Saperstein, Pat (October 8, 2015). "Hy Hollinger, Longtime Variety Reporter, Dies at 97" . Variety . Retrieved November 7, 2015 .
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