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
 * 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)
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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