| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Shana Alexander |
Journalist |
6-Oct-1925 |
23-Jun-2005 |
Nutcracker: Money, Madness and Murder |
| Jonathan Alter |
Columnist |
6-Oct-1957 |
|
Newsweek Senior Editor |
| John Ashbery |
Poet |
28-Jul-1927 |
|
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror |
| Peter Benchley |
Novelist |
8-May-1940 |
11-Feb-2006 |
Jaws |
| Gloria Borger |
Journalist |
c. 1952 |
|
CBS special correspondent |
| Ben Bradlee |
Editor |
26-Aug-1921 |
21-Oct-2014 |
Editor of The Washington Post, 1965-91 |
| Martha Brant |
Journalist |
c. 1967 |
|
Newsweek reporter |
| David Brooks |
Columnist |
11-Aug-1961 |
|
Conservative pundit |
| Tina Brown |
Editor |
21-Nov-1953 |
|
Powerhouse magazine editor |
| Susan Brownmiller |
Activist |
15-Feb-1935 |
|
Feminist, Against Our Will |
| William Bundy |
Government |
24-Sep-1917 |
6-Oct-2000 |
Cold War advisor to JFK, LBJ |
| Eleanor Clift |
Journalist |
7-Jul-1940 |
|
Madam President |
| Larry Collins |
Author |
14-Sep-1929 |
20-Jun-2005 |
Is Paris Burning? |
| Matthew Cooper |
Journalist |
1963 |
|
Reluctant to name Plame leak source |
| Arnaud De Borchgrave |
Journalist |
26-Oct-1926 |
15-Feb-2015 |
Washington Times, Insight magazine |
| Peter A. Derow |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
Institutional Investor, Inc. |
| John L. Dotson, Jr. |
Publisher |
? |
|
Akron Beacon Journal publisher, 1992-2001 |
| William A. Emerson, Jr. |
Journalist |
28-Feb-1923 |
25-Aug-2009 |
Editor, Saturday Evening Post, 1965-69 |
| Howard Fineman |
Journalist |
c. 1948 |
|
Huffington Post political analyst |
| Marshall Frady |
Journalist |
11-Jan-1940 |
9-Mar-2004 |
Wallace |
| David Frum |
Pundit |
30-Jun-1960 |
|
Coined "Axis of Evil" |
| David Gates |
Novelist |
8-Jan-1947 |
|
Jernigan |
| Ellen Goodman |
Journalist |
11-Apr-1941 |
|
Retired columnist for The Boston Globe |
| Jonathan N. Grayer |
Business |
c. 1965 |
|
CEO of Kaplan |
| Meg Greenfield |
Journalist |
27-Dec-1930 |
13-May-1999 |
The Washington Post |
| Sidney Harman |
Business |
5-Aug-1918 |
12-Apr-2011 |
Founder of Harman International |
| Louis Harris |
Business |
6-Jan-1921 |
|
Pollster, Louis Harris and Associates |
| Hendrik Hertzberg |
Publisher |
1943 |
|
The New Yorker |
| Richard C. Holbrooke |
Diplomat |
24-Apr-1941 |
13-Dec-2010 |
US Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan |
| Michael Isikoff |
Journalist |
c. 1952 |
|
Reporter who broke Lewinsky story |
| Joe Klein |
Journalist |
7-Sep-1946 |
|
Anonymous author of Primary Colors |
| Mort Kondracke |
Columnist |
28-Apr-1939 |
|
Tolerated by Fox, McLaughlin |
| Andrew Leonard |
Author |
? |
|
Wired, Slate contributor |
| Steven Levy |
Author |
26-Jan-1951 |
|
Hackers |
| Ranan Lurie |
Cartoonist |
26-May-1932 |
|
Hugely popular political cartoonist |
| Terrence Malick |
Film Director |
30-Nov-1943 |
|
Badlands |
| David C. Martin |
Journalist |
28-Jul-1943 |
|
CBS News national security correspondent |
| Janet Maslin |
Critic |
1948 |
|
New York Times film critic |
| Clifford D. May |
Activist |
c. 1951 |
|
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies |
| Meghan McCain |
Blogger |
23-Oct-1984 |
|
John McCain's daughter |
| Jon Meacham |
Journalist |
20-May-1969 |
|
Managing Editor of Newsweek, 1998-2010 |
| Joe Morgenstern |
Critic |
3-Oct-1932 |
|
Wall Street Journal film critic |
| Joe Nocera |
Columnist |
6-May-1952 |
|
Business columnist, NYT |
| Anna Quindlen |
Columnist |
8-Jul-1953 |
|
NYT columnist, later novelist |
| Jane Bryant Quinn |
Journalist |
5-Feb-1939 |
|
Personal finance columnist |
| Paul Samuelson |
Economist |
15-May-1915 |
13-Dec-2009 |
Theory of revealed preference |
| Robert J. Samuelson |
Columnist |
23-Dec-1945 |
|
Newsweek columnist |
| Dick Schaap |
Journalist |
27-Sep-1934 |
21-Dec-2001 |
Flashing Before My Eyes |
| Harry Shearer |
Comic |
23-Dec-1943 |
|
Almost half the voices on The Simpsons |
| Sargent Shriver |
Activist |
9-Nov-1915 |
18-Jan-2011 |
First Director of the Peace Corps |
| Richard M. Smith |
Journalist |
1946 |
|
Editor-in-Chief of Newsweek |
| Carl A. Spaatz |
Military |
28-Jun-1891 |
14-Jul-1974 |
USAF Chief of Staff, 1947-48 |
| Alan Spoon |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
President of Washington Post Co., 1991-2000 |
| Jean Strouse |
Author |
10-Sep-1945 |
|
Alice James: A Biography |
| Stuart Taylor, Jr. |
Journalist |
c. 1948 |
|
National Journal columnist |
| Evan Thomas |
Journalist |
25-Apr-1951 |
|
Newsweek |
| Lester Thurow |
Economist |
7-May-1938 |
25-Mar-2016 |
Sloan School of Management |
| Henry C. Wallich |
Economist |
10-Jun-1914 |
16-Sep-1988 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1959-61 |
| Margaret Warner |
Journalist |
c. 1949 |
|
PBS News Hour Correspondent |
| Jacob Weisberg |
Journalist |
1964 |
|
Slate Group chairman |
| Lally Weymouth |
Journalist |
3-Jul-1943 |
|
The Washington Post |
| Mark Whitaker |
Journalist |
7-Sep-1957 |
|
CNN managing editor |
| George Will |
Columnist |
4-May-1941 |
|
Conservative pundit, baseball lover |
| Richard Wolffe |
Journalist |
17-Sep-1968 |
|
Newsweek Senior White House Correspondent |
| Fareed Zakaria |
Journalist |
20-Jan-1965 |
|
Time columnist |