List of University of Oregon alumni
Journalism and media
Table:
Name

Degree(s)

Year(s)

Notability

Reference

Byron Acohido

B.S.

1977

Pulitzer Prize winner (1997 Seattle Times)

[122]

Rick Attig

B.S.

1983

Pulitzer Prize winner (2001 Oregonian, 2006 Oregonian with Doug Bates)

[123]

Doug Bates

1968

Pulitzer Prize winner (2006 Oregonian with Rick Attig)

[123]

Abe Deffenbaugh

B.S.

1994

Former publisher for the National Rifle Association; author of outdoor-related magazine articles

[124]

Ann Curry

B.A.

1978

The Today Show anchor; co-host of Dateline NBC

[125]

Steve Dykes

B.S.

1982

Pulitzer Prize winner (1993 LA Times with staff, 1995 LA Times with staff, 2000 Rocky Mountain News with photo staff)

[126]

Neil Everett

1984

ESPNEWS and SportsCenter anchor

[127]

Lisa Verch Fletcher

B.S.

1990

Broadcast journalist for WJLA-TV, the ABC-affiliated television station in Washington, D.C.

[128]

Thomas Hager

M.A.

Journalist

[129]

John Hockenberry

1981

Journalist; four-time Emmy Award winner; three-time Peabody Award winner

[130]

Mike Lamond

attended

StarCraft II professional commentator and player

[131]

Lars Larson

attended

1977-1979

Syndicated radio talk show host, political pundit (KEX (AM), FOX News)

[132]

Nancy Loo

B.S.

1986

Broadcast journalist for WFLD-TV, the Fox station in Chicago

[133]

John Markoff

M.S.

1975

Journalist

[134]

Kevin McCarey

M.A.

1980

Emmy Award-winning filmmaker for National Geographic Television; author (Islands Under Fire)

Win McCormack

M.F.A.

Owner of The New Republic. Co-founder of Mother Jones. Editor-in-chief of Tin House Magazine.

[135]

Curtis Murayama

B.A.

1976

Deputy Sports Editor and NFL Draft Guru, Honolulu Star-Advertiser

[136]

Ted Natt

1963

Pulitzer Prize winner (1981 Longview Daily News with staff)

[126]

Robert Porterfield

1967

Pulitzer Prize winner (1980 The Boston Globe)

[126]

Randy Shilts

B.S.

1975

Journalist; first openly gay reporter on a major American newspaper (the San Francisco Chronicle); author of three best-selling non-fiction books: The Mayor of Castro Street, And the Band Played On, and Conduct Unbecoming

[137]

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The Pulitzer Prize ( /ˈpʊlɪtsər/ ) is an award for achievements in newspaper , magazine and online journalism , literature , and musical composition in the United States . It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of American ( Hungarian-born ) Joseph Pulitzer who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher , and is administered by Columbia University in New York City . Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories . In twenty of the categories , each winner receives a certificate and a US $ 15,000 cash award ( raised from $ 10,000 in 2017 ) . The winner in the public service category of the journalism competition is awarded a gold medal .
Rick Attig is an American journalist and fiction writer , formerly a member of the Editorial Board for The Oregonian newspaper in Portland , Oregon . He was a 2008 Knight Fellow at Stanford University and twice shared the Pulitzer Prize . Attig was born and raised in Corvallis , Oregon . He earned his bachelor 's degree in journalism and political science in 1983 from the University of Oregon . Before he graduated , he was working as a reporter for the now-defunct Springfield News in Springfield , Oregon . In 1984 he joined The Bulletin daily newspaper in Bend , Oregon where he held a number of positions including senior writer , editorial page editor , and , beginning in 1995 , executive editor . From 1998 to 2012 , he was associate editor and member of the editorial board for The Oregonian in Portland . He has been recognized in his field with over 40 national , state , and regional awards . Attig was part of a group of Oregonian writers that won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for a series of articles and editorials about abuses in the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service . In 2006 , he shared with his friend and colleague Doug Bates the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing , as well as the National Headliners 1st Place Award , and he was a finalist for the American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award for his editorial writing about abuse of the mentally ill at the Oregon State Hospital . In October 2015 , Attig was inducted in the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication 's Hall of Achievement . Attig earned a MFA in fiction in 2010 from Pacific University .
Abe Walsh ( born March 30 , 1971 , in Orange , California ) is an American author who has written extensively about his hunting , fishing and back-country adventures . He has written for over 25 magazine titles , and authored or ghost-written several hardcover books on the subject . He has also appeared on-camera on television hunting shows . Walsh is also an accomplished big-game hunter .
The National Rifle Association of America ( NRA ) is a gun rights advocacy group based in the United States . Founded in 1871 , the group has informed its members about firearm-related legislation since 1934 , and it has directly lobbied for and against firearms legislation since 1975 . Founded to advance rifle marksmanship , the modern NRA continues to teach firearm safety and competency . The organization also publishes several magazines , and sponsors competitive marksmanship events . According to the NRA , it had nearly 5 million members as of December 2018 , though that figure has not been independently confirmed . Observers and lawmakers see the NRA as one of the three most influential lobbying groups in Washington , D.C . The NRA Institute for Legislative Action ( NRA-ILA ) is its lobbying division , which manages its political action committee ( PAC ) , the Political Victory Fund ( PVF ) . Over its history the organization has influenced legislation , participated in or initiated lawsuits , and endorsed or opposed various candidates at local , state , and federal levels . Some notable lobbying efforts by the NRA-ILA are the Firearm Owners Protection Act , which lessened restrictions of the Gun Control Act of 1968 , and the Dickey Amendment , which blocks the CDC from using federal funds to advocate for gun control . The NRA has been criticized by gun control and gun rights advocacy groups , political commentators , and politicians . The organization has been the focus of intense criticism in the aftermath of high-profile shootings , such as the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting , after which they suggested adding armed security guards to schools .
Ann Curry ( born November 19 , 1956 ) is an American journalist and photojournalist , who has been a reporter for more than 30 years , focused on human suffering in war zones and natural disasters . Curry has reported from the wars in Kosovo , Iraq , Syria , Lebanon , Israel , Afghanistan , Darfur , Congo and the Central African Republic . Curry has covered numerous disasters , including the tsunamis in Southeast Asia and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti , where her appeal via Twitter topped Twitter 's 'most powerful ' list , credited for helping speed the arrival of humanitarian planes . In June 2012 , she became the national and international correspondent-anchor for NBC News and the anchor at large for the Today show . She was co-anchor of Today from June 9 , 2011 , to June 28 , 2012 and the program 's news anchor from March 1997 until becoming co-anchor . She was also the anchor of Dateline NBC from 2005 to 2011 . On January 13 , 2015 , it was announced that Curry would be leaving NBC News after nearly 25 years . In January 2015 , Curry founded her own multi-platform media startup . She continues to conduct major news interviews on network television , most recently securing an exclusive interview with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif about the Iran nuclear talks .
Today , also called The Today Show , is an American news and talk morning television show that airs on NBC . The program debuted on January 14 , 1952 . It was the first of its genre on American television and in the world , and after 68 years of broadcasting it is the fifth-longest-running American television series . Originally a weekday two-hour program from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. , it expanded to Sundays in 1987 and Saturdays in 1992 . The weekday broadcast expanded to three hours in 2000 , and to four hours in 2007 ( though over time , the third and fourth hours became distinct entities ) . Today 's dominance was virtually unchallenged by the other networks until the late 1980s , when it was overtaken by ABC 's Good Morning America . Today retook the Nielsen ratings lead the week of December 11 , 1995 , and held onto that position for 852 consecutive weeks until the week of April 9 , 2012 , when Good Morning America topped it again . Today maintained its No . 2 status behind GMA from the summer of 2012 until it regained the lead in the aftermath of anchor Matt Lauer 's departure in November 2017 . In 2002 , Today was ranked No . 17 on TV Guide 's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time . The entertainment magazine Variety reported the 2016 advertising revenue during the first two hours of the show was $ 508.8 million .
Dateline NBC , or simply Dateline , is a weekly American television newsmagazine/reality legal show that is broadcast on NBC . It was previously the network 's flagship news magazine , but now focuses mainly on true crime stories with only occasional editions that focus on other topics . The program airs Fridays at 10:00 p.m. Eastern Time ( 9:00 p.m. Eastern for special two-hour editions ) and on most Sundays , outside the NFL season , at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time , special Saturday editions also occasionally air during the fall and winter months . Two-hour feature-length editions sometimes air on any given scheduled evening , often to fill vacancies in the primetime schedule on the program 's respective nights due to program cancellations .
Neil Everett ( born c. 1962 as Neil Everett Morfitt ) is a sportscaster for ESPN . He is the co-anchor of the West Coast edition of SportsCenter alongside Stan Verrett .
ESPNews ( pronounced ESPN News ) is an American digital cable and satellite television network that is owned by ESPN Inc. , a joint venture between the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company ( which owns a controlling 80% stake ) and the Hearst Communications ( which owns the remaining 20% ) . Known as ESPN3 in its planning stages and proposed as early as 1993 , ESPNEWS launched on November 1 , 1996 and originally focused on 24-hour coverage of sports news and highlights . Since 2010 , the network has slowly become refocused to carry encores of ESPN 's various sports debate and entertainment shows , along with video simulcasts of ESPN Radio shows , with press conferences now airing during the day on SportsCenter as the main ESPN channel has increasingly become news-based outside live sports - rather than carrying recorded sports events . ESPNEWS has increasingly been used as an overflow network for programming conflicts on the other ESPN networks . As of September 2018 , ESPNews is available to approximately 62.4 million pay television households ( 68% of households with cable TV ) in the United States .
SportsCenter ( SC ) is a daily sports news television program that serves as the flagship program and brand of American cable and satellite television network ESPN . The show covers various sports teams and athletes from around the world and often shows highlights of sports from the day . Originally broadcast only once per day , SportsCenter now has up to twelve airings each day , excluding overnight repeats . The show often covers the major sports in the U.S. including basketball , hockey , football , and baseball . SportsCenter is also known for its recaps after sports events and its in-depth analysis by different anchors and popular figures like Stephen A. Smith and Scott Van Pelt . The show continues to be the flagship show for ESPN and leads the way in sports broadcasting and entertainment . Since it premiered upon the network 's launch on September 7 , 1979 , the show has aired more than 60,000 unique episodes , more than any other program on American television ; SportsCenter is broadcast from ESPN 's studio facilities in Bristol , Connecticut and Los Angeles , California . In addition to airing simulcasts or network-exclusive editions on sister networks ESPN2 and ESPNews , the program also produces short in-game updates during sports events aired on ABC and , until 2017 , an interstitial play countdown segment for fellow network Disney XD . ESPN is currently sponsoring SportsCenter and many other productions .
Lisa Fletcher is an American television journalist . She is an investigative reporter and news anchor who has covered stories around the world - both for ABC News as a correspondent and various major-market television stations . She was previously the host of The Stream on Al Jazeera America based in Washington DC . She is currently with WJLA-TV in Washington , which is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group .
WJLA-TV , virtual and VHF digital channel 7 , is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to the American capital city of Washington , District of Columbia . The station is owned by the Hunt Valley , Maryland-based Sinclair Broadcast Group , which also operates local cable channel WJLA 24/7 News . The two outlets share studios on Wilson Boulevard in the Rosslyn section of Arlington , Virginia ( at the former headquarters of the Gannett Company and its flagship newspaper USA Today ) ; WJLA-TV 's transmitter is located in the Tenleytown neighborhood of northwest Washington . On cable , the station is available on Comcast Xfinity channel 27 in Washington , D.C. ( NBCSN is carried on cable channel 7 ) and channel 7 in the Maryland and Virginia suburbs , and on Cox Communications , RCN and Verizon FiOS channel 7 .
The American Broadcasting Company ( ABC ) is an American commercial broadcast radio and television network owned by the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company . The network is headquartered in Burbank , California , on Riverside Drive , directly across the street from Walt Disney Studios and adjacent to the Roy E. Disney Animation Building . The network 's secondary offices , and headquarters of its news division , is in New York City , at its broadcast center at 77 West 66th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan . Since 2007 , when ABC Radio ( also known as Cumulus Media Networks ) was sold to Citadel Broadcasting , ABC has reduced its broadcasting operations almost exclusively to television . It is the fifth-oldest major broadcasting network in the world and the youngest of the Big Three television networks . ABC is nicknamed The Alphabet Network , as its initialism also represents the first three letters of the English alphabet , in order . ABC launched as a radio network on October 12 , 1943 , serving as the successor to the NBC Blue Network , which had been purchased by Edward J. Noble . It extended its operations to television in 1948 , following in the footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS and NBC . In the mid-1950s , ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres , a chain of movie theaters that formerly operated as a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures . Leonard Goldenson , who had been the head of UPT , made the new television network profitable by helping develop and greenlight many successful series . In the 1980s , after purchasing an 80 percent interest in cable sports channel ESPN , the network 's corporate parent , American Broadcasting Companies , Inc. , merged with Capital Cities Communications , owner of several print publications , and television and radio stations . In 1996 , most of Capital Cities/ABC 's assets were purchased by The Walt Disney Company .
Washington , D.C. , ( /ˈwɑːʃɪŋtən ˌdiːˈsiː/ ) formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as D.C. , Washington , or The District , is the capital of the United States . Founded after the American Revolution as the seat of government of the newly independent country , Washington was named after George Washington , the first president of the United States and a Founding Father . As the seat of the United States federal government and several international organizations , Washington is an important world political capital . The city , located on the Potomac River bordering Maryland and Virginia , is one of the most visited cities in the world , with more than 20 million tourists annually . The signing of the Residence Act on July 16 , 1790 , approved the creation of a capital district located along the Potomac River on the country 's East Coast . The U.S. Constitution provided for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress , and the District is therefore not a part of any U.S. state . The states of Maryland and Virginia each donated land to form the federal district , which included the pre-existing settlements of Georgetown and Alexandria . The City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital . In 1846 , Congress returned the land originally ceded by Virginia , including the city of Alexandria ; in 1871 , it created a single municipal government for the remaining portion of the District . Washington had an estimated population of 702,455 as of July 2018 [ update ] , making it the 20th most populous city in the United States . Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the city 's daytime population to more than one million during the workweek . Washington 's metropolitan area , the country 's sixth largest ( including parts of Maryland , Virginia and West Virginia ) , had a 2017 estimated population of 6.2 million residents .
Thomas Hager is an American author of popular science and narrative nonfiction .
John Charles Hockenberry ( born June 4 , 1956 ) is an American journalist and author . He has reported from all over the world , on a wide variety of stories in several mediums for more than three decades . He has written dozens of magazine and newspaper articles , a play , and two books , including the bestselling memoir Moving Violations : War Zones , Wheelchairs , and Declarations of Independence , which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award , and the novel A River Out Of Eden . He has written for The New York Times , The New Yorker , Wired , The Columbia Journalism Review , Metropolis , The Washington Post , and Harper 's Magazine . Hockenberry has appeared as a presenter or moderator at many design and idea conferences around the world including the TED conference , the World Science Festival in New York and in Brisbane , the Mayo Clinics Transform Symposium , and the Aspen Comedy Festival . He has been a Distinguished Fellow at the MIT Media Lab and serves on the White House Fellows Committee . He is a prominent figure in the disability rights movement ; Hockenberry sustained a spinal cord injury in a car crash at age 19 , which left him with paraplegia from the chest down . In late 2017 , several colleagues accused Hockenberry of harassment , unwanted touching and bullying .
An Emmy Award , or simply Emmy , is an American award that recognizes excellence in the television industry . It is presented at numerous annual events held throughout the calendar year , each honoring one of the various sectors of the television industry . The two ceremonies that receive the most media coverage are the Primetime Emmy Awards and the Daytime Emmy Awards , which recognize outstanding work in American primetime and daytime entertainment programming , respectively . Other notable Emmy events include those honoring national sports programming , national news and documentary shows , and technological and engineering achievements in television , including the Primetime Engineering Emmy Awards . Regional Emmy Awards are also presented throughout the country at various times through the year , recognizing excellence in local and statewide television . In addition , the International Emmy Awards honor excellence in TV programming produced and initially aired outside the United States . The Emmy is named after immy , an informal term for the image orthicon tube that was common in early television cameras . The statuette depicts a winged woman holding an atom . The Emmy is considered one of the four major American entertainment awards , the others being the Grammy ( for music ) , the Oscar ( for film ) , and the Tony ( for theater ) . Three related , but separate , organizations present the Emmy Award : the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences ( ATAS ) , the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences ( NATAS ) , and the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences ( IATAS ) . The ATAS first awarded the Emmy in 1949 to honor shows produced in the Los Angeles area before it became a national event in the 1950s to honor programs aired nationwide . Over the next two decades , the ATAS , the NATAS , and the IATAS expanded the award to honor other areas of the TV industry , with each organization responsible for administering a particular set of Emmy competitions .
The George Foster Peabody Awards ( or simply Peabody Awards or the Peabodys ) program , named for the American businessman and philanthropist George Peabody , honor the most powerful , enlightening , and invigorating stories in television , radio , and online media . Programs are recognized in seven categories : news , entertainment , documentaries , children 's programming , education , interactive programming , and public service . Peabody Award winners include radio and television stations , networks , online media , producing organizations , and individuals from around the world . Established in 1940 by a committee of the National Association of Broadcasters , the Peabody Award was created to honor excellence in radio broadcasting . It is the oldest major electronic media award in the United States . Final Peabody Award winners are selected unanimously by the program 's Board of Jurors . Reflecting excellence in quality storytelling , rather than popularity or commercial success , Peabody Awards are distributed annually to 30 out of 60 finalists culled from more than 1,000 entries . Because submissions are accepted from a wide variety of sources and styles , deliberations seek Excellence On Its Own Terms . Each entry is evaluated on the achievement of standards established within its own context . Entries , for which a US $ 350 fee ( US $ 225 for radio ) is required , are self-selected by those making submissions .
Mike Lamond ( born May 4 , 1987 ) , more commonly known by his online alias Husky or HuskyStarcraft , is a former sports commentator , YouTuber , director , and voice actor . He is best known for his work in e-Sports , most notably for his commentating on StarCraft II , a video game published by Blizzard Entertainment . He regularly appeared as a commentator at StarCraft tournaments , with his commentary being viewable through various YouTube channels . In early 2015 , Lamond quit sports commentating . In late 2018 , after a four-year hiatus , Husky took down his old YouTube channel , which as of March 2019 had over 489 million views . He currently has a new channel on the platform and currently works with Rosanna Pansino on Nerdy Nummies .
StarCraft II : Wings of Liberty is a science fiction real-time strategy video game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment . It was released worldwide in July 2010 for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X . A sequel to the 1998 video game StarCraft and the Brood War expansion pack , the game is actually split into three installments : the base game , subtitled Wings of Liberty , an expansion pack , Heart of the Swarm , and a stand-alone expansion pack , Legacy of the Void . In March 2016 , a campaign pack called StarCraft II : Nova Covert Ops was also released . Like its predecessor , the game revolves around three species : the Terrans ( humans ) , the Zerg ( a super-species of assimilated life forms ) , and the Protoss ( a technologically advanced species with vast psionic powers ) . Wings of Liberty focuses on the Terrans , while the expansions , Heart of the Swarm and Legacy of the Void , focus on the Zerg and Protoss , respectively . The game is set four years after the events of 1998 's StarCraft : Brood War , and follows the exploits of Jim Raynor as he leads an insurgent group against the autocratic Terran Dominion . The game includes both new and returning characters and locations from the original game . The game was met with critical acclaim , receiving an aggregated score of 93% from Metacritic . Similar to its predecessor , StarCraft II was praised for its engaging gameplay , as well as its introduction of new features and improved storytelling . The game was criticized for lacking features that existed in the original StarCraft game including LAN play and the ability to switch between multiplayer regions . At the time of its release , StarCraft II became the fastest-selling real-time strategy game , with over three million copies sold worldwide in the first month .
Lars Kristopher Larson ( born March 6 , 1959 ) is an American conservative talk radio show host based in Portland , Oregon . Larson worked in television and radio news from the 1970s to 1990s and has hosted The Lars Larson Show from flagship station KXL in Portland since 1997 . Two versions of the show exist : the Northwest show airs from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. ( Pacific ) and discussing Pacific Northwest issues . The Northwest show is syndicated on the Radio Northwest Network which is owned and operated by Alpha Media . The nationally syndicated program airs from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. ( Pacific ) and discusses national issues . The national show is syndicated by Compass Media Networks .
KEX ( 1190 kHz ) is an AM , clear channel radio station licensed to Portland , Oregon . It is owned by iHeartMedia , Inc. , and airs a news/talk format known as NewsRadio 1190 . The station 's studios and offices are on SW 68th Parkway , off Interstate 5 in Tigard , Oregon . Because KEX is a 50,000-watt Class A station , it reaches all of the Portland metropolitan area and beyond , providing grade B coverage as far south as Corvallis and as far east as The Dalles . At night , KEX can be heard around the Western United States and Western Canada . The transmitter is located off SE Lawnfield Road in Sunnyside . It uses a non-directional antenna in the daytime . But at night , to protect other stations on 1190 AM , it switches to a directional antenna .
Fox News ( officially Fox News Channel and abbreviated FNC ) is an American conservative cable television news channel . It is owned by the Fox News Group , which itself was owned by News Corporation from 1996-2013 , 21st Century Fox from 2013-2019 , and Fox Corporation since 2019 . The channel broadcasts primarily from studios at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in New York City . Fox News is provided in 86 countries or overseas territories worldwide , with international broadcasts featuring Fox Extra segments during ad breaks . The channel was created by Australian-American media mogul Rupert Murdoch to appeal to a conservative audience , hiring former Republican Party media consultant and CNBC executive Roger Ailes as its founding CEO . It launched on October 7 , 1996 , to 17 million cable subscribers . Fox News grew during the late 1990s and 2000s to become the dominant subscription news network in the U.S. As of September 2018 [ update ] , approximately 87,118,000 US households ( 90.8% of television subscribers ) receive Fox News . In 2019 , Fox News was the top-rated cable network averaging 2.5 million viewers . Murdoch is the current executive chairman and Suzanne Scott is the CEO . Fox News has been described as practicing biased reporting in favor of the Republican Party , the George W. Bush and Donald Trump administrations , and conservative causes while slandering the Democratic Party and spreading harmful propaganda intended to negatively affect its members ' electoral performances . Critics have cited the channel as detrimental to the integrity of news overall . Fox News employees have said that news reporting operates independently of its opinion and commentary programming , and have denied bias in news reporting , while former employees have said that Fox ordered them to slant the news in favor of conservatives .
Nancy Loo is a reporter/fill-in anchor at WGN-TV in Chicago .
The Fox Broadcasting Company ( often shortened to Fox and stylized in all caps as FOX ) is an American broadcast television network that is a flagship property of the Fox Corporation . The network is headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in New York City , with additional offices at the Fox Broadcasting Center ( also in New York ) and at the Fox Television Center in Los Angeles . Launched on October 9 , 1986 , as a competitor to the Big Three television networks ( ABC , CBS and NBC ) , Fox went on to become the most successful attempt at a fourth television network . It was the highest-rated network in the 18-49 demographic from 2004 to 2012 , and earned the position as the most-watched American television network in total viewership during the 2007-08 season . Fox and its affiliated companies operate many entertainment channels in international markets , although these do not necessarily air the same programming as the U.S. network . Most viewers in Canada have access to at least one U.S.-based Fox affiliate , either free-to-air or through a pay television provider , although Fox 's National Football League broadcasts and most of its prime time programming are subject to simultaneous substitution regulations for pay television providers imposed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) to protect rights held by domestically based networks . Fox is named after what was once called 20th Century Fox , its original corporate sibling ( and still its major supplier of programming , despite its acquisition by Disney ) and indirectly for producer William Fox , who founded one of the movie studio 's predecessors , Fox Film . Fox is a member of the North American Broadcasters Association and the National Association of Broadcasters .
John Gregory Markoff ( born October 24 , 1949 ) is a journalist best known for his work at The New York Times , and a book and series of articles about the 1990s pursuit and capture of hacker Kevin Mitnick .
Kevin McCarey is an Emmy and Peabody Award winning filmmaker and author . He has worked extensively for National Geographic Television and the Turner Networks as producer , writer and director of documentaries . His narrative film work includes festival winners Coyotes , San Juan Story and Extinction .
Win McCormack is an American publisher and editor from Oregon . He is editor-in-chief of Tin House magazine and Tin House Books , the former publisher of Oregon Magazine , founder and treasurer of MediAmerica , Inc. , and a co-founder of Mother Jones magazine . He serves on the board of directors of the journal New Perspectives Quarterly . His political and social writings have appeared in Oregon Humanities , Tin House , The Nation , The Oregonian , and Oregon Magazine . McCormack 's investigative coverage of the Rajneeshee movement was awarded a William Allen White Commendation from the University of Kansas and the City and Regional Magazine Association . As a political activist , McCormack served as Chair of the Oregon Steering Committee for Gary Hart 's 1984 presidential campaign . He was chair of the Democratic Party of Oregon 's President 's Council and a member of the Obama for President Oregon Finance Committee . [ citation needed ] Additionally , McCormack sits on the Board of Overseers for Emerson College , and is a co-founder of the Los Angeles-based Liberty Hill Foundation . In February 2016 , McCormack purchased The New Republic magazine from previous owner Chris Hughes . He received an A.B . from Harvard College and an MFA from the University of Oregon .
The New Republic is an American magazine of commentary on politics and the arts , published since 1914 , with influence on American political and cultural thinking . Founded in 1914 by leaders of the progressive movement , it attempted to find a balance between a humanitarian progressivism and an intellectual scientism , and ultimately discarded the latter . Through the 1980s and '90s , the magazine incorporated elements of the Third Way and conservatism . In 2014 , two years after Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes purchased the magazine , he ousted its editor and attempted to remake its format , operations , and partisan stances , provoking the resignation of the majority of its editors and writers . In early 2016 , Hughes announced he was putting the magazine up for sale , indicating the need for new vision and leadership . It was sold in February 2016 to Win McCormack .
Mother Jones ( abbreviated MoJo ) is an American magazine that focuses on news , commentary , and investigative reporting on topics including politics , the environment , human rights , and culture . Its political inclination is variously described as either liberal or progressive . Clara Jeffery serves as editor-in-chief of the magazine . Steve Katz has been the publisher since 2010 ; Monika Bauerlein has been the CEO since 2015 . Mother Jones is published by The Foundation for National Progress . The magazine was named after Mary Harris Jones , known as Mother Jones , an Irish-American trade union activist , socialist advocate , and ardent opponent of child labor .
Tin House is an American literary magazine and book publisher based in Portland , Oregon , and New York City . Portland publisher Win McCormack conceived the idea for Tin House magazine in the summer of 1998 . He enlisted Holly MacArthur as managing editor and developed the magazine with the help of two experienced New York editors , Rob Spillman and Elissa Schappell . In 2005 , Tin House expanded into a book division , Tin House Books . They also run a by-admission-only summer writers ' workshop held at Reed College . In December 2018 Tin House announced that they were shuttering their literary magazine after 20 years to focus on their book releases and workshops .
Ted Natt ( 1941 - August 7 , 1999 ) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning publisher . Natt was publisher of the Longview Daily News when Mount St. Helens erupted in May 1980 . In 1981 the paper and its staff won the Pulitzer Prize for Local , General , or Spot Reporting .
Randy Shilts ( August 8 , 1951 - February 17 , 1994 ) was an American journalist and author . He worked as a reporter for both The Advocate and the San Francisco Chronicle , as well as for San Francisco Bay Area television stations . His 1987 book And the Band Played On chronicled the history of the AIDS epidemic .
The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of northern California . It was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young . The paper is owned by the Hearst Corporation , which bought it from the de Young family in 2000 . It is the only major daily paper covering the city and county of San Francisco . The paper benefited from the growth of San Francisco and was the largest circulation newspaper on the West Coast of the United States by 1880 . Like other newspapers , it has experienced a rapid fall in circulation in the early 21st century , and was ranked 24th by circulation nationally for the six months to March 2010 . The newspaper publishes two web sites : sfchronicle.com , which closely reflects the articles that appear in the print paper , and SFGate , which has a mixture of online news and web features .
The Mayor of Castro Street is a 1982 biography of Harvey Milk by Randy Shilts .
And the Band Played On : Politics , People , and the AIDS Epidemic is a 1987 book by San Francisco Chronicle journalist Randy Shilts . The book chronicles the discovery and spread of the human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV ) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome ( AIDS ) with a special emphasis on government indifference and political infighting - specifically in the United States - to what was then perceived as a specifically gay disease . Shilts ' premise is that AIDS was allowed to happen : while the disease is caused by a biological agent , incompetence and apathy toward those initially affected allowed its spread to become much worse . The book is an extensive work of investigative journalism , written in the form of an encompassing time line ; the events that shaped the epidemic are presented as sequential matter-of-fact summaries . Shilts describes the impact and the politics involved in battling the disease on particular individuals in the gay , medical , and political communities . Shilts begins his discussion in 1977 with the first confirmed case of AIDS , that of Grethe Rask , a Danish doctor working in Africa . He ends with the announcement by actor Rock Hudson in 1985 that he was dying of AIDS , when international attention on the disease exploded . And the Band Played On was critically acclaimed and became a best-seller . Judith Eannarino of the Library Journal called it one of the most important books of the year , upon its release . It made Shilts both a star and a pariah for his coverage of the disease and the bitter politics in the gay community . He described his motivation to undertake the writing of the book in an interview after its release , saying , Any good reporter could have done this story , but I think the reason I did it , and no one else did , is because I am gay . It was happening to people I cared about and loved .
Conduct Unbecoming : Lesbians and Gays in the U.S. Military from Vietnam to the Persian Gulf War is a 1993 book by American journalist Randy Shilts , in which the author traces the participation of gay and lesbian personnel from the Revolutionary War to the late 20th century . The book was well received in a review in the Los Angeles Times which described it as gripping reading and an irrefutable indictment of unconscionable government behavior in a cause that the military seems still unable to explain . The historian Lillian Faderman called the book famous in The Gay Revolution : The Story of the Struggle ( 2015 ) .