Jonathan Alter
 Jonathan Alter (born October 6 1957) is an American journalist best-selling author and television producer who was a columnist and senior editor for Newsweek magazine from 1983 until 2011 and has written three New York Times best-selling books about American presidents. He is a contributing correspondent to NBC News where since 1996 he has appeared on NBC MSNBC and CNBC. Alter was one of the first magazine or newspaper reporters to appear on MSNBC.