# List of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism people

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.

## A–G

* 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
* Wayne Barrett, senior editor and investigative reporter, Village Voice
* Ethan Bauer, staff writer, "Deseret News", adjunct professor University of Florida
* 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
* David Cho, journalist for The Washington Post
* Gina Chua, executive editor, Reuters
* 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; first woman to serve as Mayor of Westmount, Quebec
* Sadanand Dhume, author
* Jonathan Dunn-Rankin, actor, television journalist and gay activist
* 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
* Ellen Louise Graham, journalist at the Wall Street Journal and 1999 Pulitzer Prize finalist.
* Mel Gussow, former theatre critic, The New York Times (deceased)

## H–M

* LynNell Hancock, education writer; professor, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
* Donna Hanover, co-host, WOR radio morning show; ex-wife of Rudy Giuliani
* Jonathan Harounoff, journalist and Israel’s International Spokesperson to the United Nations
* 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)
* Molly Ivins, reporter, author and syndicated political columnist
* Joseph Jackson, assistant drama editor at The New York World and Hollywood screenwriter
* 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
* Peter Kihss, a renowned journalist at The New York Times.
* Dawn Kissi, journalist, producer, and entrepreneur
* 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
* 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

## N–Z

* 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
* 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)
* Gloria Rojas, television journalist
* 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
* 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