page_title: Medill School of Journalism
section_title: Notable alumni
hierarchical_section_title: Medill School of Journalism / Notable alumni
caption_attribution_description: English: Roxana Saberi, speaking at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Journalism and Communication, in Los Angeles, California
context_page_description: The Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications is a constituent school of Northwestern University that offers both undergraduate and graduate programs. It frequently ranks as the top school of journalism in the United States. Medill alumni include 40 Pulitzer Prize laureates, numerous national correspondents for major networks, and many well-known reporters and columnists.
  Northwestern is one of the few schools embracing a technological approach towards journalism.
  Medill received a Knight Foundation grant to establish the Knight News Innovation Laboratory in 2011. The Knight Lab is a joint initiative of Medill and the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern, one of the first to combine journalism and computer science.
context_section_description: The school recognizes alumni "whose distinctive careers have had positive impacts on their fields" with its Hall of Achievement award, as well as alumni who have been awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
  J. A. Adande, ESPN personality and former Los Angeles Times columnist
  Steve Albini, Musician, record producer and audio engineer. Most famous for playing guitar in Big Black and producing Nirvana's third album In Utero.
  Peter Applebome (M.S.J. 1974), reporter at The New York Times
  Jabari Asim, columnist, The Washington Post
  Gillian Flynn, author, (Gone Girl)
  David Barstow, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The New York Times
  Sy Bartlett, author and Hollywood screenwriter
  Roger Bell, former Vice President of News at KCBS-TV and KABC-TV in Los Angeles and Executive Producer of News for WNBC-TV in New York
  Steve Bell (M.S.J. 1963), former correspondent for ABC News
  Naftali Bendavid, Congress reporter Wall Street Journal
  Ira Berkow (M.S.J. 1964), Pulitzer Prize nominated (1988) and winning (2001) sports reporter, columnist and features writer, The New York Times
  Ari Berman, writer for The Nation and author of Herding Donkeys
  Kai Bird (M.S.J. 1975), Pulitzer Prize-winning author and columnist
  Kevin Blackistone (B.S.J. 1981), ESPN contributor, Around the Horn; The Dallas Morning News sports columnist
  Valerie Boyd (B.S.J. 1985), author of Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston; former Atlanta Journal-Constitution arts editor
  Christine Brennan (B.S.J. 1980, M.S. 1981), sports columnist, USA Today
  Hal Buell, former head of photography service at the Associated Press
  Elisabeth Bumiller, The New York Times reporter, former White House Correspondent
  Ben Burns (B.S.J. 1934), founding editor of Ebony and Jet
  David Callaway, former editor-in-chief of USA Today
  David Chalian, deputy political director, ABC News
  Joie Chen, Al Jazeera America Correspondent
  Anupama Chopra, Indian film critic, and host of The Front Row on "Star World"
  Cindy Chupack, executive producer and writer of Sex and the City
  Jim Cummins (1945–2007), NBC News correspondent
  Paul Dana (1975–2006), Indy Race Car driver
  Frank DeCaro, radio personality at OutQ (Sirius XM)
  R. Bruce Dold, editor of The Chicago Tribune
  Jonathan Eig, reporter, editor, author
  Rich Eisen, NFL Network anchor
  Judith Lynn Ferguson, author of 65 cookery books, cookery editor of Woman's Realm magazine, and Head of Diploma Course at Le Cordon Bleu- London
  Robin Fields, investigative reporter ProPublica
  James Foley, journalist
  David T. Friendly, film producer (Little Miss Sunshine)
  Jack Fuller, Pulitzer Prize-winner and former editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune
  Joshua Green, (M.S.J. 1998), senior national correspondent, Bloomberg Businessweek
  Lauren Green, religion correspondent, FOX News Channel
  Mike Greenberg, sports broadcaster for ESPN
  Jennifer Hale (sportscaster), sports broadcaster for Fox Sports
  Jon Heyman, senior baseball writer for Sports Illustrated and MLB Network insider
  Kwame Holman, producer, correspondent for PBS NewsHour and producer, reporter for WTOC-TV
  Stephen Hunter, Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic for The Washington Post and novelist
  Michael Isikoff, investigative reporter, Newsweek
  David Israel, columnist Washington Star, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, former sportswriter Chicago Daily News
  Jeff Jarvis, media executive, blogger, professor, author
  Clara Jeffery, editor of Mother Jones magazine
  Omar Jimenez, reporter & correspondent for CNN
  Sherry Jones (M.S.J. 1971), senior producer, Frontline
  Dorothy Misener Jurney, called "the godmother of women's pages"
  Clinton Kelly, (M.S.J. 1993), co-host of TLC's What Not To Wear
  Hank Klibanoff (M.S.J. 1973), former managing editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
  Michelle Kosinski, correspondent for CNN, formerly of NBC News
  Vincent Laforet, Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer for The New York Times
  Nicole Lapin, an anchor for CNBC
  Michael Lazerow, entrepreneur and co-found
caption: Roxana Saberi, author of Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran
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