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Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Joe L. Allbritton	Business	29-Dec-1924		Well-connected Washington billionaire
Fred Barnes	TV Personality	?		Fox News regular
John Barron	Journalist	1930	24-Feb-2005	Soviet espionage expert
Berl Bernhard	Attorney	7-Sep-1929		Co-Founder, Verner Liipfert
Carl Bernstein	Journalist	14-Feb-1944		Broke the Watergate story
Clifford K. Berryman	Cartoonist	2-Apr-1869	11-Dec-1949	Political cartoonist
Gloria Borger	Journalist	c. 1952		CBS special correspondent
David Broder	Journalist	11-Sep-1929		Washington Post reporter
Torie Clarke	Government	Mar-1959		Pentagon Spokeswoman, 2001-03
Maureen Dowd	Columnist	14-Jan-1952		New York Times columnist
Matt Drudge	Blogger	27-Oct-1966		The Drudge Report
Jack Germond	Columnist	c. 1928		Fat Man in a Middle Seat
John Harwood	Journalist	c. 1956		Wall Street Journal political editor
Smith Hempstone, Jr.	Diplomat	1-Feb-1929	19-Nov-2006	US Ambassador to Kenya, 1989-93
Michael Isikoff	Journalist	c. 1952		Newsweek reporter
Mort Kondracke	Columnist	28-Apr-1939		Tolerated by Fox, McLaughlin
Howard Kurtz	Journalist	1-Aug-1953		Media critic
Mary McGrory	Journalist	22-Aug-1918	21-Apr-2004	Pulitzer Prize-winning Liberal Icon
Ben McKelway	Journalist	2-Oct-1895	1976	Editor, The Washington Star
Pat Oliphant	Cartoonist	24-Jul-1935		Editorial cartoonist and Pulitzer recipient, 1967
Walter Pincus	Journalist	24-Dec-1932		Washington Post reporter with CIA ties
Michael Sitrick	Business	8-Jun-1947		Sitrick and Company
Roger Wilkins	Educator	1932		Author, blackademic

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