| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Jill Abramson |
Journalist |
19-Mar-1954 |
|
New York Times managing editor |
| Renata Adler |
Journalist |
19-Oct-1938 |
|
Gone: The Last Days of the New Yorker |
| Mike Allen |
Journalist |
21-Jun-1964 |
|
Politico |
| Natalie Angier |
Journalist |
16-Feb-1958 |
|
Science reporter |
| Brooks Atkinson |
Critic |
28-Nov-1894 |
14-Jan-1984 |
New York Times drama critic |
| Russell Baker |
Author |
14-Aug-1925 |
|
Growing Up |
| Peter Bart |
Journalist |
24-Jul-1932 |
|
Former editor of Variety |
| James Bennet |
Journalist |
28-Mar-1966 |
|
Editor-in-Chief of Atlantic Monthly |
| Lowell Bergman |
Film/TV Producer |
24-Jul-1945 |
|
Former 60 Minutes producer |
| Mark Bittman |
Chef |
c. 1950 |
|
The Minimalist |
| Jayson Blair |
Journalist |
1976 |
|
Prevaricating NYT reporter |
| Roy Blount, Jr. |
Author |
5-Oct-1941 |
|
Humorist |
| Charles M. Blow |
Columnist |
11-Aug-1970 |
|
New York Times Op-Ed columnist |
| David Broder |
Journalist |
11-Sep-1929 |
9-Mar-2011 |
Washington Post reporter |
| David Brooks |
Columnist |
11-Aug-1961 |
|
Conservative pundit |
| Les Brown |
Encyclopaedist |
20-Dec-1928 |
4-Nov-2013 |
Television encyclopaedist |
| Frank Bruni |
Journalist |
31-Oct-1964 |
|
New York Times food critic |
| Pat Buchanan |
Columnist |
2-Nov-1938 |
|
Crossfire |
| Elisabeth Bumiller |
Journalist |
c. 1955 |
|
New York Times Washington correspondent |
| John Burns |
Journalist |
4-Oct-1944 |
|
New York Times correspondent |
| Janet Burroway |
Novelist |
21-Sep-1936 |
|
The Dancer from the Dance |
| Richard R. Burt |
Diplomat |
3-Feb-1947 |
|
US Ambassador to Germany, 1985-89 |
| Vincent Canby |
Critic |
27-Jul-1924 |
15-Sep-2000 |
Film/Theater Critic, The New York Times |
| David Carr |
Journalist |
8-Sep-1956 |
12-Feb-2015 |
The New York Times |
| Turner Catledge |
Journalist |
17-Mar-1901 |
27-Apr-1983 |
New York Times editor |
| Henry Chadwick |
Journalist |
5-Oct-1824 |
20-Apr-1908 |
Father of baseball |
| Adam Clymer |
Journalist |
27-Apr-1937 |
|
The New York Times |
| Daniel H. Cohen |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
NYT VP Advertising, 1995-99 |
| Helene Cooper |
Journalist |
22-Apr-1966 |
|
NY Times editorial board |
| Bill Cunningham |
Photographer |
13-Mar-1929 |
25-Jun-2016 |
Fashion photographer, The New York Times |
| S. E. Cupp |
Pundit |
23-Feb-1979 |
|
Losing Our Religion |
| Robert Curvin |
Activist |
23-Feb-1934 |
29-Sep-2015 |
Former Black Power activist |
| E. J. Dionne |
Journalist |
23-Apr-1952 |
|
The Washington Post |
| Ross Douthat |
Columnist |
28-Nov-1979 |
|
New York Times columnist |
| Maureen Dowd |
Columnist |
14-Jan-1952 |
|
New York Times columnist |
| Allen Drury |
Novelist |
2-Sep-1918 |
2-Sep-1998 |
Advise and Consent |
| Orvil Dryfoos |
Publisher |
8-Nov-1912 |
26-May-1963 |
New York Times Publisher, 1961-63 |
| Thomas Byrne Edsall |
Journalist |
22-Aug-1941 |
|
Columnist, The New York Times |
| Barbara Ehrenreich |
Author |
26-Aug-1941 |
|
Nickel and Dimed |
| Kurt Eichenwald |
Journalist |
28-Jun-1961 |
|
Conspiracy of Fools |
| Nora Ephron |
Author |
19-May-1941 |
26-Jun-2012 |
When Harry Met Sally |
| Susan Faludi |
Activist |
18-Apr-1959 |
|
Backlash |
| Dexter Filkins |
Journalist |
24-May-1961 |
|
The Forever War |
| Max Frankel |
Journalist |
3-Apr-1930 |
|
The New York Times |
| Thomas Friedman |
Journalist |
20-Jul-1953 |
|
New York Times |
| Bill Geist |
Columnist |
10-May-1945 |
|
60 Minutes II |
| Arthur Gelb |
Editor |
3-Feb-1924 |
20-May-2014 |
Editor, The New York Times, 1986-89 |
| Leslie H. Gelb |
Government |
4-Mar-1937 |
|
President, Council on Foreign Relations, 1993-2003 |
| James Gleick |
Author |
1-Aug-1954 |
|
Chaos: Making a New Science |
| E. L. Godkin |
Journalist |
2-Oct-1831 |
21-May-1902 |
Co-Founder of The Nation |
| Austan D. Goolsbee |
Economist |
18-Aug-1969 |
|
Chair, Council of Economic Advisers, 2010-11 |
| James C. Hagerty |
Government |
9-May-1909 |
11-Apr-1981 |
Eisenhower's press secretary |
| David Halberstam |
Journalist |
10-Apr-1934 |
23-Apr-2007 |
The Powers That Be |
| Ruth Hale |
Activist |
1886 |
18-Sep-1933 |
Maiden name crusader |
| Chris Hedges |
Journalist |
18-Sep-1956 |
|
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning |
| Carlos Slim Helu |
Business |
28-Jan-1940 |
|
World's richest man, 2010 |
| Bob Herbert |
Columnist |
7-Mar-1945 |
|
Former New York Times columnist |
| Seymour Hersh |
Journalist |
8-Apr-1937 |
|
Uncovered the My Lai Massacre |
| John Hodgman |
Author |
3-Jun-1971 |
|
The Areas of My Expertise |
| Alexander Lyman Holley |
Business |
20-Jul-1832 |
29-Jan-1882 |
Designed steel foundries |
| Charlayne Hunter-Gault |
TV Personality |
27-Feb-1942 |
|
NPR, NewsHour reporter |
| Gwen Ifill |
Journalist |
29-Sep-1955 |
14-Nov-2016 |
Washington Week, Lehrer News Hour |
| Molly Ivins |
Columnist |
30-Aug-1944 |
31-Jan-2007 |
Loudmouthed Texas dame |
| David Cay Johnston |
Journalist |
24-Dec-1948 |
|
Perfectly Legal |
| Michiko Kakutani |
Critic |
9-Jan-1955 |
|
Quirky New York Times book critic |
| Bernard Kalb |
Journalist |
4-Feb-1922 |
|
CBS and NBC news correspondent |
| Peter Kaplan |
Editor |
10-Feb-1954 |
29-Nov-2013 |
Editor-in-Chief, New York Observer |
| George S. Kaufman |
Playwright |
16-Nov-1889 |
2-Jun-1961 |
You Can't Take It With You |
| Bill Keller |
Journalist |
18-Jun-1949 |
|
Executive Editor, The New York Times |
| Walter Kerr |
Critic |
8-Jul-1913 |
9-Oct-1996 |
New York Times drama critic |
| Joyce Kilmer |
Poet |
6-Dec-1886 |
30-Jul-1918 |
Trees |
| Penn Kimball |
Journalist |
12-Oct-1915 |
8-Nov-2013 |
Persecuted by US Government |
| Gina Kolata |
Journalist |
25-Feb-1948 |
|
New York Times science writer |
| Tony Kornheiser |
Journalist |
13-Jul-1948 |
|
Pardon the Interruption |
| Hilton Kramer |
Critic |
25-Mar-1928 |
27-Mar-2012 |
The New Criterion |
| Nicholas D. Kristof |
Journalist |
27-Apr-1959 |
|
New York Times Op-Ed columnist |
| Bill Kristol |
Columnist |
23-Dec-1952 |
|
Editor of The Weekly Standard |
| Paul Krugman |
Columnist |
28-Feb-1953 |
|
New York Times columnist/economist |
| Jennifer 8. Lee |
Journalist |
15-Mar-1976 |
|
New York Times reporter |
| Steven Levitt |
Economist |
1968 |
|
Freakonomics |
| Anthony Lewis |
Journalist |
27-Mar-1927 |
25-Mar-2013 |
Gideon's Trumpet |
| Eric Lichtblau |
Journalist |
c. 1965 |
|
NY Times reporter |
| A. J. Liebling |
Journalist |
18-Oct-1904 |
28-Dec-1963 |
The New Yorker |
| Kennett Love |
Journalist |
17-Aug-1924 |
13-May-2013 |
Suez: The Twice-Fought War |
| Ranan Lurie |
Cartoonist |
26-May-1932 |
|
Hugely popular political cartoonist |
| Willem J. Luyten |
Astronomer |
7-Mar-1899 |
21-Nov-1994 |
Stellar mortician |
| John Markoff |
Journalist |
24-Oct-1949 |
|
New York Times computer guy |
| Janet Maslin |
Critic |
1948 |
|
New York Times film critic |
| Brander Matthews |
Critic |
21-Feb-1852 |
31-Mar-1929 |
The Study of American Literature |
| Clifford D. May |
Activist |
c. 1951 |
|
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies |
| William Meredith |
Poet |
9-Jan-1919 |
30-May-2007 |
Partial Accounts |
| Charles Merz |
Journalist |
23-Feb-1893 |
31-Aug-1977 |
Editor of the New York Times, 1938-61 |
| Judith Miller |
Journalist |
2-Jan-1948 |
|
Credulous NY Times WMD maven |
| Elvis Mitchell |
Critic |
1958 |
|
New York Times film critic |
| Gretchen Morgenson |
Journalist |
2-Jan-1956 |
|
The New York Times |
| Adam Nagourney |
Journalist |
10-Oct-1954 |
|
New York Times |
| Victor Navasky |
Publisher |
5-Jul-1932 |
|
Publisher of The Nation |
| Nicholas Negroponte |
Educator |
1-Dec-1943 |
|
Founder, MIT Media Lab |
| Richard L. Neuberger |
Politician |
26-Dec-1912 |
9-Mar-1960 |
US Senator from Oregon, 1955-60 |
| Joe Nocera |
Columnist |
6-May-1952 |
|
Business columnist, NYT |
| John M. O'Brien |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
CFO, New York Times Co., 1998-2001 |
| Adolph Ochs |
Publisher |
12-Mar-1858 |
8-Apr-1935 |
New York Times Publisher, 1896-1936 |
| Daniel Okrent |
Author |
2-Apr-1948 |
|
Former public editor, New York Times |
| Peter R. Orszag |
Government |
16-Dec-1968 |
|
Beltway economist |
| Norman Pearlstine |
Journalist |
4-Oct-1942 |
|
Former Time Inc. Editor in Chief |
| McCandlish Phillips |
Journalist |
4-Dec-1927 |
9-Apr-2013 |
The New York Times |
| Walter Pincus |
Journalist |
24-Dec-1932 |
|
Washington Post reporter with CIA ties |
| Dith Pran |
Journalist |
27-Sep-1942 |
30-Mar-2008 |
Subject of The Killing Fields |
| Hugh B. Price |
Activist |
1941 |
|
President of the Urban League, 1994-2003 |
| Anna Quindlen |
Columnist |
8-Jul-1953 |
|
NYT columnist, later novelist |
| Howell Raines |
Journalist |
5-Feb-1943 |
|
Executive editor, NYT, resigned |
| Steven Rattner |
Business |
5-Jul-1952 |
|
Quadrangle Group |
| Henry J. Raymond |
Journalist |
24-Jan-1820 |
19-Jun-1869 |
Co-Founder of The New York Times |
| Ruth Reichl |
Critic |
16-Jan-1948 |
|
Editor-in-Chief, Gourmet magazine |
| Uwe E. Reinhardt |
Educator |
24-Sep-1937 |
|
Health economist |
| James Reston |
Journalist |
3-Nov-1909 |
6-Dec-1995 |
The New York Times |
| Andrew Revkin |
Journalist |
c. 1956 |
|
New York Times science reporter |
| Frank Rich |
Columnist |
2-Jun-1949 |
|
New York magazine |
| James Risen |
Journalist |
c. 1955 |
|
NY Times national security reporter |
| Janet L. Robinson |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
CEO of New York Times Company, 2005-11 |
| Abe Rosenthal |
Journalist |
2-May-1922 |
10-May-2006 |
NY Times Executive Editor, 1977-86 |
| Andrew Rosenthal |
Journalist |
25-Feb-1956 |
|
Editorial Page Editor, The New York Times |
| Ilene Rosenzweig |
Columnist |
? |
|
Swell designer |
| William Safire |
Columnist |
17-Dec-1929 |
27-Sep-2009 |
NYT columnist, language maven |
| David E. Sanger |
Journalist |
5-Jul-1960 |
|
NYT Chief Washington Correspondent |
| Sydney Schanberg |
Journalist |
17-Jan-1934 |
9-Jul-2016 |
The Death and Life of Dith Pran |
| Daniel Schorr |
Journalist |
31-Aug-1916 |
23-Jul-2010 |
Veteran journalist, Nixon enemy |
| Vin Scully |
Sports Journalist |
29-Nov-1927 |
|
Voice of the Dodgers |
| Neil Sheehan |
Journalist |
27-Oct-1936 |
|
A Bright Shining Lie |
| Will Shortz |
Editor |
26-Aug-1952 |
|
Crossword editor, New York Times |
| Nate Silver |
Blogger |
13-Jan-1978 |
|
Baseball Prospectus, FiveThirtyEight.com |
| Barbara Slavin |
Journalist |
1951 |
|
Sr. Diplomatic Reporter, USA Today |
| Andrew Ross Sorkin |
Journalist |
19-Feb-1977 |
|
The New York Times |
| Carl Spielvogel |
Business |
27-Dec-1928 |
|
Advertising executive, Bates Worldwide |
| Ben Stein |
Game Show Host |
25-Nov-1944 |
|
Host of Win Ben Stein's Money |
| A. G. Sulzberger |
Publisher |
5-Aug-1980 |
|
Deputy Publisher, New York Times |
| Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. |
Publisher |
22-Sep-1951 |
|
New York Times Publisher |
| Arthur Hays Sulzberger |
Publisher |
12-Sep-1891 |
11-Dec-1968 |
New York Times Publisher, 1935-61 |
| Punch Sulzberger |
Publisher |
5-Feb-1926 |
29-Sep-2012 |
New York Times Publisher, 1963-91 |
| Ron Suskind |
Journalist |
20-Nov-1959 |
|
The Price of Loyalty |
| Gay Talese |
Author |
7-Feb-1932 |
|
Honor Thy Father |
| Sam Tanenhaus |
Author |
31-Oct-1955 |
|
Editor, New York Times Book Review |
| Stuart Taylor, Jr. |
Journalist |
c. 1948 |
|
National Journal columnist |
| John Tebbel |
Journalist |
16-Nov-1912 |
9-Oct-2004 |
A History of Book Publishing in the United States |
| Hunter S. Thompson |
Journalist |
18-Jul-1937 |
20-Feb-2005 |
Gonzo journalist and author |
| Lester Thurow |
Economist |
7-May-1938 |
25-Mar-2016 |
Sloan School of Management |
| Martin Tolchin |
Journalist |
20-Sep-1928 |
|
Founder, The Hill |
| Carl Van Vechten |
Novelist |
17-Jun-1880 |
21-Dec-1964 |
Patron of the Harlem Renaissance |
| Sander Vanocur |
Journalist |
8-Jan-1928 |
|
ABC and NBC correspondent |
| John Vinocur |
Journalist |
? |
|
International Herald Tribune correspondent |
| Sarah Vowell |
Radio Personality |
27-Dec-1969 |
|
This American Life |
| Weegee |
Photographer |
12-Jun-1899 |
26-Dec-1968 |
Crime photographer |
| Tim Weiner |
Journalist |
20-Jun-1956 |
|
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA |
| Tom Wicker |
Journalist |
18-Jun-1926 |
25-Nov-2011 |
The New York Times |
| Roger Wilkins |
Educator |
25-Mar-1932 |
|
Author, blackademic |
| Ernest J. Wilson III |
Educator |
c. 1948 |
|
Dean, Annenberg School for Communication |
| Alexander Woollcott |
Critic |
18-Jan-1887 |
23-Jan-1943 |
The Man Who Came to Dinner |
| Stark Young |
Critic |
11-Oct-1881 |
6-Jan-1963 |
So Red the Rose |
