Pulitzer or other major prize winner; top editor of major publication/broadcast; leading reporter in field

• Donal Henahan, BS ’43, winner of 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Music Criticism (New York Times)


• Paul Gapp, BSJ ’50, Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic for The Chicago Tribune


• Don Moser, AB ’57, retired editor, Smithsonian magazine


• Van Gordon Sauter, BSJ ’57, former president of CBS News and CBS Sports


• Alvin Adams, BSJ ’59, writer who covered major civil rights milestones for Jet magazine


• M. Edward Morris, MS ’59, editor, Billboard


• Roger Ailes, BFA ’62 and HON ’89, chairman, Fox News
  See more: Roger Ailes (Wikipedia)


• Mel Harris, MA ’65 and PHD ’71, co-president and COO, Sony Pictures Entertainment


• Bruce A. McElfresh, BFA ’66, MFA ’78, illustrations editor, National Geographic magazine


• Marc Norton, MS ’67, winner of 1989 Pulitzer Prize for General News Reporting (Louisville Courier-Journal)


• June Kronholz, BSJ ’69, 2002 Pulitzer Prize winner for Wall Street Journal coverage of Sept. 11


• Cable Neuhaus, BSJ ’69, editor in chief, Folio magazine; former general editor, Entertainment Weekly


• Clarence Page, BSJ ’69 and HON ’93, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist for The Chicago Tribune
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• Stephen J. Shanesy, BSJ ’71, editor and publisher, Popular Woodworking


• James Henahan, BSJ ’73, winner of 1989 Pulitzer Prize for General News Reporting (Louisville Courier-Journal)


• Skip Peterson, BSJ ’74, 1997 Pulitzer Prize winner for Investigative Reporting Photography (Dayton Daily News)


• Neal Pattison, BSJ ’74, supervising editor of Albuquerque Tribune series on Americans unwittingly used for government radiation experiments that won 1994 Pulitzer Prize


• Durell Hall, BFA ’78, winner of 1989 Pulitzer Prize for General News Reporting (Louisville Courier-Journal)


• Peter King, BSJ ’79, four-time Associated Press Sports Editors award winner who covers the NFL for Sports Illustrated
  See more: Peter King (Wikipedia)


• Joanne Utley-Baksh, BSJ ’79, winner of 1997 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of TWA Flight 800 crash (Newsday)


• Martin Savidge, BSC ’80, BSJ ’81, CNN anchor/national correspondent
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• William F. Gentile, MS ’83, two-time Emmy Award winner The Learning Channel’s “Trauma: Life in the ER” and winner of a Robert F. Kennedy Award for Human Rights Reporting for a “Nightline” report on Rwandan rape victims


• John Kaplan, BSJ ’82, MS ’98, winner of 1992 Feature Photography Pulitzer Prize for “Age 21 in America,” a photo essay of the lives of young adults


• Leon Harris, BSJ ’83 and HON ’99, former CNN anchor now with ABC affiliate WJLA in Washington, D.C.
  See more: Leon Harris (Wikipedia)


• Valerie Hoff, BSJ ’84, former CNN Headline News anchor


• Steve Hymon, BSC ’88, Los Angeles Times staff writer, was part of a team that won the 2005 Pulitzer Gold Medal for Public Service for a series of articles about problems at an inner-city hospital


• Michel duCille, MS ’94, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer for The Miami Herald
  See more: Michel duCille (Wikipedia)


• Matt Lauer, BSC ’97, “Today Show” anchor
  See more: Matt Lauer (Wikipedia)


• Martha Rial, BFA ’98, 1998 Pulitzer Prize winner for photos of survivors of the conflicts in Rwanda and Burundi


• Ronnie Lauren Koenig, MFA ’99, editor in chief, Playgirl