Last updated: Oct. 1, 2000 Some Alumni: A growing student-made list Unofficial list; NOT compiled by the Graduate School of Journalism Send spj@columbia.edu your additions/suggestions/changes Scroll or click: Newspapers | Columnists | Magazines | Television | Radio | Wire Services | New Media | Freelancers | Authors | Education | Organizations | Other Fields | Fellows | Famous From The Past | Trivia NEWSPAPERS / Top Editors John K. Baker J'60, managing editor, San Jose Mercury News Reg Chua J'88, editor, Asian Wall Street Journal John J. Curley J'63, chairman & CEO, Gannett Co. Kinley Dorji J'89, chief editor, Kunsel (Bhutan's English paper) Donald Forst J'55, executive editor, Village Voice Wayne Dawkins J'80, editor, Daily Press (founder, Black Alumni Network) William German J'40, executive editor, San Francisco Chronicle Richard Goldstein J'66, former executive editor, Village Voice Pranay Gupte J'71, editor-in-chief, The Earth Times (ex-NYT) Fred Kempe J'77, editor & publisher, WSJ Europe Edward Klein J'61, former editor-in-chief, NYT Magazine E. Donald Lass J'61, publisher & editor, Ashbury Park Press Joseph Lelyveld J'60, former executive editor, The New York Times Richard Kaplan J'51, editor, The Star (broke G. Flowers story) Bob Magnuson J'77, former president, LA Times (Orange County ed) Michael Maidenberg J'67, publr, Grand Forks Herald, N. Dakota (Pulitzer) Bhaskar Menon J'70, executive editor, UN Diplomatic Times Anthony Marro J'68, executive editor, Newsday James McClatchy J'49, chairman & publisher, Sacramento Bee Sam McKeel J'52, president and CEO, Chicago Sun-Times Malini Parthasarthy J'82, executive editor, The Hindu (India) Howard Schneider J'67, managing editor, Newsday Dina Vakil J'70, editor-in-chief, Times of India (largest daily) Richard Warren J'70, publisher, Bangor Daily News James Willse J'68, executive editor, Star-Ledger NEWSPAPERS / Staff Chris Allbritton, tech writer, Daily News Drummond Ayres J'62, national correspondent, NYT Karlyn Barker J'70, city editor, Washington Post Wayne Barrett J'68, staff writer, Village Voice Mary Bralove J'69, former news editor, WSJ John Gittleson J'83, travel writer, Orange County Register Soma Golden-Behr J'62, asst. managing editor, NYT Richard Berke J'81, Washington reporter, The New York Times Ethan Bronner J'80, reporter, Boston Globe Geraldine Brooks J'83, reporter, WSJ & author Warren Brown J'70, auto industry reporter, Washington Post Adam Bryant J'87, business reporter, The New York Times Frank Bruni J'88, political reporter, The New York Times Elisabeth Bumiller J'79 features writer, NYT (ex-Wash Post) Robert Carney J'70, VP & editor, Golf Digest Jonathan Dahl J'81, editor, Weekend Journal, WSJ C.J. Chivers J'95, reporter, The New York Times (ex-Marine) Kelly Crow J2000, reporter, The New York Times Frank Denton J'70, editor, Wisconsin State Journal Joseph Durso J'47, sports writer, The New York Times Bill Egbert J'97, reporter, Daily News Naresh Fernandes J'97, copy editor, The Wall Street Journal C. Gerald Fraser J'70, ME, The Earth Times (ex-NYT) Alan Freeman J'73, Berlin bureau chief, Toronto Globe & Mail Emanuel Freedman J'32, ex-foreign editor, NYT (Pulitzer) Joshua Friedman J'68, UN bureau chief, Newsday (2 Pulitzers) William Glaberson J'82, reporter, The New York Times Laurie Goodstein J'89, reporter, The New York Times Merrill Goozner J'82, Tokyo bureau chief, Chicago Tribune Molly Gordy J'76, investigative reporter, NY Daily News Martin Gottlieb J'69, former managing editor, NY Daily News Ellen Graham, J'70, asst. news editor, The Wall Street Journal Steven Greenhouse J'75, Washington financial corr, NYT Anthony Horwitz J'83, reporter, WSJ (Pulitzer) Youssef M. Ibrahim J'70, ex-London corr, NYT Richard Jenkins J'81, business editor, Los Angeles Times Larry Jinks J'56, president & publisher, San Jose Mercury Times S. Mitra Kalita J'2002, reporter, Newsday Peter Kilborn J'62, workplace corr, The New York Times Margaret King J'79, politics editor, San Diego Union Tribune Clifford Krauss J'77, Washington correspondent, NYT Doron Levin J'77, Detroit bureau chief, NYT Carl Leubsdorf J'60, Wash bureau chief, Dallas Morning News Jesse Lewis J'84, national copy chief, The Wall Street Journal Simon Li J'70, foreign editor, Los Angeles Times Jane H. Lii J'93, reporter, The New York Times Frank Malabre Jr J'53, economics editor, WSJ Darren McDermott J'92, reporter, Asian Wall Street Journal, HK Maryanne McNellis J'69, VP news, Financial Post (Canada) William Montalbano J'62, Rome bureau chief, LA Times Itabari Njeri J'78, contributing editor, LA Times Magazine Amy Nutt J'95, features writer, Star-Ledger Susuan Page J'74, White House bureau chief, USA Today Robert Pear J'74, defense correspondent, NYT Ilene Prusher, J'93, Tokyo Bureau Chief, Christian Science Monitor Rena Pederson J'70, editl page editor, Dallas Morning News Roni Rabin J'85, reporter, Newsday Neil Reisner J'81, database editor, The Miami Herald Joe Rodriguez J'81, editorial writer, San Jose Mercury News David Sanford J'65, page one editor, The Wall Street Journal (Pulitzer) Charles Sennott J'86, Israel bureau chief, The Boston Globe John Simons J'64, Tokyo bureau chief, Knight-Ridder Susan Sontag J'85, Jerusalem bureau chief, NYT Stephanie Strom J'85, Tokyo corr, The New York Times Reginald Stuart J'71, chief recruiter, Knight-Ridder Ron Susskind J'83, senior special writer, WSJ (Pulitzer) Kara Swisher J'86, Silicon Valley reporter, WSJ Jeffrey Tannenbaum J'70, reporter, The Wall Street Journal James Toedtman J'67, former managing ed, NY Newsday Ernest Tollerson III J'75, editorial writer, The New York Times Thomas Vogel J'91, Caracas bureau chief, WSJ John Noble Wilford J'62, science writer, The New York Times Paul Zielbauer J'96, reporter, The New York Times - back to top - COLUMNISTS & CRITICS Mitch Albom J'82, sports columnist, Detroit Free Press/ESPN Rekha Basu J'82, columnist, Des Moines Register Nancy Churnin J'81, family entertainment columnist & movie critic, Dallas Morning News Richard M. Cohen J'68, columnist, Washington Post Jim Dwyer J'80, columnist, NY Daily News (Pulitzer) Simson Garfinkle J'TK, tech columnist, Boston Globe Dorothy Gilliam J'61, columnist, Washington Post David Gonzalez J'83, columnist, The New York Times Mel Gussow J'56, drama critic, The New York Times Molly Ivins J'67, columnist & author Anna Kisselgoff J'62, chief dance critic, The New York Times Howard Kurtz J'75, media critic, Washington Post Robert Lipsyte J'59, columnist, The New York Times Walter Mossberg J'70, technology columnist, WSJ Frank Prial J'57, wine columnist, The New York Times Joshua Quittner J'85, technology columnist, Time Tom Rosensteil J'80, author & former L.A. Times media critic Diane Winston J'82, religion columnist, Baltimore Sun Jules Witcover J'51, columnist, Baltimore Sun - back to top - MAGAZINES / Top editors Kanak Dixit, J'82, executive editor, Himal (Nepal) Ann Dry J'85, managing editor, New Jersey Monthly Richard Duncan J'61, former executive editor, Time Lance Gould J'93, former executive editor, Spy Ronald Kriss J'57, former executive editor, Time magazine Irving Landau J'61, editorial director, Consumer Reports Seema Nayyar J'90, executive editor, American Demographics N. Ram J'68, executive editor, Frontline (India) Richard M. Smith J'70, editor-in-chief, Newsweek Les Tanzer J'52, former managing editor, US News & WR Marcia Vickers J'94, executive editor, On Wall Street Valerie Wesley J'82, exec editor, Essence & mystery writer Charles M. Young J'75, executive editor, Musician MAGAZINES / Staff Susuan Althoff J'93, editor, Natural Health (ex-ME, Boston) Anjali Arora J'98, Industry Standard Caroline V. Clarke J'87, editor-at-large, Black Enterprise Jennet Conant J'83, staff writer, Vanity Fair (see Trivia) Kimberly Coniff J'98, writer, Brill's Content Roger Crockett J'93, reporter, Business Week Sadanand Dhume J'96, N. Delhi b. chief, Far Eastern Eco Review Howard Fineman J'73, chief political correspondent, Newsweek Renee Glaser J'54, chief copy editor, Scholastic magazines Jordan Goodman J'77, editor, Money magazine Maureen Grise J'95, picture editor, Sports Illustrated Marguerite Holloway J'88, contributing editor, Scientific Am John Horgan J'83, senior writer, Scientific American Trudy Lieberman J'77, investigative editor, Consumer Reports Michael Lemonick J'83, science writer, Time Richard Locayo J'77, senior writer, Time Louis Kraar J'69, board of editors, Fortune Katarzyna Moreno J'87, chief of reporters, Forbes Noah Robischon J'96, senior writer, Entertainment Weekly Nandi Rodrigo J'97, fact-checker, The New Yorker Michael Serrill J'70, reporter, Time Robin Schatz J'77, editor, Business Week Joseph Shapiro J'76, associate editor, US News & WR Gail Sheehy J'70, author & contributing editor, Vanity Fair Janice Simpson J'84, associate editor, Time Andrew Tanzer J'80, Hong Kong bureau chief, Forbes Chris Taylor J'97, technology writer, Time Mark Vamos J'83, business editor, Newsweek Carey Winfrey J'67, asst. managing editor, People - back to top - WIRES / Top Editors Lou Boccardi J'59, CEO, The Associated Press Ronald Cohen J'66, executive editor, Gannett News Service Robert Prinsky J'65, managing editor, Dow Jones News Service Robert Levine J'63, VP, Dow Jones Newswires Jonathan Oatis J'78, Reuters Internet Report WIRES / Staff Rita Beamish J'76, former White House bureau chief, AP Myron Blekind J'62, London bureau chief, AP Martha Irvine J'94, national writer, AP Edward Lane J'89, South Asia bureau chief, Dow Jones Newswires Yalman Onaran J'92, Istanbul bureau chief, AP Bundeep Rangar J'97, London reporter, Bloomberg Joy Russell J'99, reporter, AP Walker Simon, J'80, world desk editor, Reuters - back to top - TELEVISION / Top producers/editors Philip Balboni J'71, president, New England Cable News Tom Bettag J'67, executive producer, ABC News Nightline Margaret Drain J'76, exec prod, American experience/WGBH Reuven Frank J'47, former president, NBC News Paul Friedman J'67, exec prod, ABC World News Tonight David Friend, J'78, exec prod, CNBC Business News Mark Harrington J'89, executive producer, MSNBC Peter Landis J'75, news director, New York One Marquita Poole J'77, senior producer, CBS Sunday Morning Terry Martin J'70, exec prod, "20th C. Project w/ Mike Wallace" Philip Scheffler J'51, executive editor, CBS 60 Minutes TELEVISION / On Air Julia Bovey J'93, correspondent, New England Cable News Michael Chinoy J'75, Beijing correspondent, CNN David Diaz J'67, correspondent, WCBS-TV John Donvan J'80, ex-White House corr, ABC News Barkha Dutt J'98, anchor, Star News India Vince Gonzales J'93, CBS LA bureau Scott Gurvey J'74, NY bur chief, Nightly Business Report/PBS Allan Frank J'70, investigative corr, CNN Financial Myron Kandel J'53, anchor, CNN Financial News Fred Katayama J'83, anchor CNN Financial News Steve Kroft J'75, correspondent, CBS News 60 Minutes Irving R.Levine J'47, ex-economics corr, NBC News Suzanne Malveaux J'91, reporter, NBC News John McWethy J'70, national security corr, ABC News Suzanne Pratt J'87, NY corr, Nightly Business Report/PBS Gabe Pressman J'47, commentator, WNBC-TV John Quinones J'79, correspondent, ABC 20/20 Richard Roth J'72, correspondent, NBC News Melissa Russo J'91, political reporter, NY1 News Rolanda Watts J'81, talk show host Dick Schapp J'52, sports editor, ABC News TELEVISION / Staff Shauna Alami J'76, NY bureau chief, NBC News Michael Cowan J'85, producer, Today Show on NBC Paul Gallagher J'94, associate producer, 60 Minutes Mallika Kapur J'98, associate producer, CNBC Singapore Neeraj Khemlani J'93, producer, 60 Minutes II Hanson Hosein J'95, producer, NBC Tel Aviv Margaret Lehrman J'70, Washington producer, NBC News Alice Rhee J'96, prodr, Nightly News w/Brian Williams/MSNBC Howard Weinberg J'65, prod (ex-60 Minutes & Sunday Morning) - back to top - RADIO Margot Adler J'70, correspondent, National Public Radio Wilma Consul J'92, producer, All Things Considered Jane Tillman Irving J'65, ex-WNYC correspondent & ex-prof Robert Siegel J'70, anchor, National Public Radio Carline Windall J'95, producer, All Things Considered Weekend John Wordock J'93, Washington correspondent, AP Radio (ex-Bloomberg) - back to top - NEW MEDIA / Top editors Jonathan Braun J'72, CEO, Foreigntv.com Andrew Cary, J'95, managing editor, Discovery.com Jason Chervokas J'93, editor & co-founder, @NY Peter Frishauf J'72, co-founder, Medscape.com & adjunct prof. Mary Jacobson, J'98, managing editor, Fascnet.org Kourosh Karimkhany J'93, former news editor, Yahoo.com Jon Oatis J'78, Reuters Internet Report Andrea Panciera J'82, editor, projo.com (Providence Journal) Larry Pryor J'62, executive editor, Online Journalism Review Chris Riback J'90, content editor, Round1.com Andrew Ross J'69, VP, strategic planning, Salon.com Mark Sauter J'87, co-founder, APBNews.com, now Parlo.com Josh Schroeter J'91, founder, Blockbuy.com Stephen Silverman J'75, editor-in-chief, People Daily Mario Tedeschini-Lalli J'77, editor-in-chief, CNN.Italy Dan Woods J'89, former CTO, thestreet.com NEW MEDIA / Staff Joe Bosquin J'98, reporter, TheStreet.com Michael Broadhurst J'96, asst. editor, WSJ.com Lee Clontz J'98, producer, CNNSI.com Hans Chen, J'98, reporter, Vault.com Jon Dube, J'97, general assignment reporter, ABCNews.com Joanna Glasner J'97, reporter, Wired News Amanda Onion, J'95, science editor, ABCNews.com Kevin McKenna J'77, editorial director, NYT Electronic Media Bryan Miller J'75, restaurant critic, Sidewalk.com (ex-NYT) Barbara Moffatt J'95, associate editor, Women.com Jeremy Quittner J'95, producer, BusinessWeek Online Matt Richtel J'90, reporter, NYT on the Web Mark Sauter J'87, executive VP of content, APBNews.com Mavis Scanlon J'98, reporter, thestreet.com Trisha Smith J'95, nature editor, Discovery Online - back to top - FREELANCERS Norman Green J'96, 60 Minutes II Ivor Hanson J'98, Time Out New York and more Shoba Narayan J'95, business and food writer Curt Simmon J'91, ex-Newsday, Forbes Bernard Stamler J'98, New York Times City section Alex Tarquinio J'97, former finance editor, Forbes.com Steve Zietchik J'97, Upside and others - back to top - AUTHORS Mitch Albom J'82, "Tuesdays with Morrie" Richard Ben Cramer J'72, "What It Takes" (Pulitzer) Tara Bahrampour J'93, "To See & See Again" Mervin Block J'62, books on broadcast newswriting Lelia Bundles J'76, author, "Madam C.J. Walker--A Family Legacy" Pat Buchanan J'62, several books (see Trivia section) Don Kirk J'65, "Tell it to the Dead: Stories of a War" Eric Marcus J'84, "Breaking the Surface" (G. Louganis autobio) Peter Osnos J'65, publisher & CEO, PublicAffairs Press Joshua Quittner J'85, author of books on cyberspace Chrisopher Scanlan J'74, ed, annual Best Newspaper Writing Sudeep Sen J'89, author, Postmarked India: New and Selected Poems Kara Swisher J'85, "AOL.com" - back to top - EDUCATION COLUMBIA GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM Elie Abel J'42, former dean & ex-network anchor Carole Agus J'71, prof & former columnist, Newsday Judith Crist J'45, adj prof, & former film critic Ari Goldman J'73, prof & ex-religion writer, NYT Tom Goldstein J'69, dean and ex-dean, Berkeley LynNell Hancock J'81, prof & ex-education ed, Newsweek John Hohenberg J'27, ex-prof & ex-administrator, Pulitzers Joan Konner J'61, ex-dean Donald "Pete" Johnston J'TK, ex-assoc. dean David Krajicek J'85, ex-prof Rhoda Lipton J'76, prof & former producer, ABC News Robin Reisig J'68, prof & former op-ed editor, Newsday Steve Ross J'70, prof & columnist, Architectural Record E.R. Shipp J'78, prof & Daily News columnist (Pulitzer) Sreenath Sreenivasan, prof Wayne Svoboda J'81, prof & ex-Africa editor, The Economist Terri Thompson J'98, director, Knight-Bagehot Program OTHER SCHOOLS Madeleine Blais J'70, prof, Univ of Amherst J Dept (Pulitzer) Warren Brier J'54, dean, Univ of Missouri J-School Ralph Lowenstein J'52, dean, Univ of Florida J-school Bruce Porter J'62, director of Journalism, Brooklyn College Larry Pryor, J'62, professor, UCLA Bernard Redmont J'39, ex-dean, Boston Univ School of Comm Willaim Woestendiek J'48, former director, USC J-school - back to top - ORGANIZATIONS Leroy Aarons J'58, president, Natl Lesbian & Gay J Assn Maurine Beasley J'63, president, Assn. for Ed in J & MassComm (AEJMC) Barbara Cochran J'68, president, Radio-TV News Directors Assn Dinah Eng J'77, former president, Asian American J Association Ted Gest J'69, president, Criminal Justice Journalists & director, Jerry Lee Center of Criminology Penny McPhee J'70, chief prog off, John S. and James L. Knight Found'n Howard Simons J'52, curator, Nieman Foundation, Harvard Pam Troutman J'98, president, NY Assn of Black Journalists - back to top - OTHER FIELDS Kenneth Bacon J'68, chief Pentagon spokesman David Brown J'37, film producer, Jaws, The Sting Patrick Buchanan J'62, politician & ex-host, Crossfire Daniel Edelman J'41, founder, Edelman Public Relations Renee Edelman J'80, founder, PR21.com Sylvana Foa, J'69, ex-spokesperson of UN's Boutros-Ghali John P. Foley J'66, archbishop, Vatican City Donna Hanover Giuliani J'70, ex-TV anchor & NYC First Lady Eleanor Goodman J'80, judge, NYS Supreme Court Priscilla Hall J'69, judge, NYS Supreme Court Madeleine M. Kunin J'57, ex-Virgina gov & ex-amb to Switz Frank Mankiewicz J'48, vice chair, Hill&Knowlton (ex-prez, NPR) Christian Mork J'92, script buyer, Paramount Pictures David Neustadt J'82, press secy, Alan Hevesi, NYC comptroller Howard Paster J'67, chairman, Hill & Knowlton Public Relations Joe Rappaport J'86, spokesman, Straphangers Campaign Alan Temple J'17, ex-vice chair, Citibank (Columbia Trustee) Hollington Tong J'13, former ambassador to China Melwyn Ziegler J'68, founder, Banana Republic & author - back to top - FELLOWS/CERTIFICATE STUDENTS Mervin Block J'62, books on broadcast newswriting Robert Caro J'67, author, "The Power Broker" Anthony DeCurtis J'98, music writer, Rolling Stone Jules Feiffer J'98, cartoonist Jan Hopkins J'83, anchor, CNN Financial News Mara Liasson J'89, reporter, National Public Radio Floyd Norris J'82, stock market columnist, The New York Times Geraldo Rivera J'70, TV personality Elyse Tanouye J'87, reporter, Wall Street Journal (Pulitzer) Joseph Treatser J'95, reporter, The New York Times - back to top - NAMES FROM THE PAST (the late great) Carl W. Ackerman J'13, ex-dean, Columbia Jl & NYT reporter Martene Windsor Corum J'21, sports writer & author Marguerite Higgins J'42, World War II corres, NY Herald Trib Henry Beetle Hough J'18, editor & author (Pulitzer) A.J. Liebling J'25, columnist & critic Lester Markel J'14, associate editor, The New York Times Maynard Parker J'63, editor, Newsweek Max L. Schuster J'17, founding partner, Simon & Schuster Robert Shaplen, author & staff writer for The New Yorker Claire Sterling J'45, author of books on narcotics trafficing and terrorism - back to top - ALUMNI TRIVIA At home among the Columbia liberals: Patrick J. Buchanan J'62, is perhaps the most visible alum of the late 1990s. In addition to being a nightly presence on CNN's Crossfire, he was a perennial presidential candidate. In 1999, when he switched from the Republican Party to the Reform Party, he mentioned the J-school in the opening minute of his press conference: "As perhaps the only Barry Goldwaterite in the graduating class of Columbia Journalism School..." In his 1990 book, Right From The Beginning, he has an entire chapter about his time at the J-school, "Columbia Class of '62." His Master's Project was on Cuban-Canadian Trade. Alumni & Alumni: In August 1997, Jennet Conant created a media storm by writing a Vanity Fair cover story alleging that Mayor Rudy Giuliani was having an affair with his press secretary. The J-school connection: Giuliani is married to Donna Hanover Giuliani J'70 and Jennet Conant J'83, is married to Steve Kroft J'75 of 60 Minutes. Going Bananas: Banana Republic and the Republic of Tea were founded by Mel Ziegler J'68, and his wife Patricia. Ziegler is a former newspaper reporter and his wife, a former newspaper illustrator. They now run ZoZa.com, the first proprietary apparel brand launched online. Here's the Banana Republic story: In the late 70s Ziegler discovered a British Burma jacket in a Sydney, Australia, "disposal" store and, with a little alteration by his wife, it became the perfect replacement for his surplus jacket. Mrs. Ziegler played down the jacket's military origins and played up its comfortable, everyday, utilitarian nature. Family and friends liked the look, and sure enough, the Banana Republic concept was born. Today the company is a subsidiary of Gap Inc. and has more than 230 stores in the United States and nine in Canada. Ziegler is co-author (with his wife) of "The Republic of Tea: How an Idea Becomes a Business" (Currency/Doubleday, 1992, $22.50). Read more about them in ZoZa's Webzine. Legendary names: The J-school has spawned at least a couple of world-famous corporate names... Publishing house Simon & Schuster gets half its name from founding partner Max L. Schuster J'17. Edelman Public Relations, the world's largest PR firm gets its name from founder Daniel Edelman J'41 (his daughter & founder of PR21.com is Renee Edelman J'80). - back to top - Toni KatzUnofficial list; NOT compiled by the Graduate School of Journalism Send spj@columbia.edu your additions/suggestions/changes -30- Peter Allen