List of Jewish American journalists
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This is a list of famous Jewish American journalists. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.
- Dan Abrams - general manager, MSNBC[1]
- Martin Agronsky-Moderator on Agronsky & Company, one of the original talking heads programs on television.
- Bonnie Bernstein - sports journalist[2]
- Carl Bernstein - investigative reporter for the Washington Post, uncovered Watergate with Bob Woodward.[3]
- Aaron Brown - former anchor of CNN's Newsnight with Aaron Brown, ABC's World News Now, and ABC's World News Tonight Saturday[4]
- Art Buchwald - humourist[5]
- Katie Couric - Today show host and future CBS Evening News anchor[6]
- Barbara Epstein - co-founder and co-editor of the New York Review of Books
- Jason Epstein - co-founder of the New York Review of Books
- Giselle Fernández - host of Access Hollywood[7]
- Thomas Friedman - columnist, The New York Times[8]
- Bernard Goldberg - CBS News reporter[9]
- Jeffrey Goldberg (1965 - ) journalist, staff writer for The New Yorker and author of the book Prisoners[10]
- Jonah Goldberg - conservative commentator[11]
- David Halberstam - Vietnam War correspondent[12]
- Mark Halperin - the ABC News Political Director[13]
- Seymour Hersh - investigative journalist, uncovered My Lai massacre[14]
- David Horowitz - conservative commentator[15]
- Pauline Kael - long-time film critic for The New Yorker[16]
- Peter Kaplan - editor, New York Observer[17]
- Ted Koppel - former anchor of ABC's Nightline.[18]
- Paul Krugman - columnist, The New York Times[19]
- Dave Marash - Washington-based anchor of Al-Jazeera's English language 24 hour news channel.[20]
- Daniel Pearl - murdered foreign correspondent[21]
- Frank Rich - columnist, The New York Times[22]
- Geraldo Rivera - investigative television journalist and host, now with Fox News[23]
- Steven V. Roberts - Washington pundit and U.S. News and World Report contributor[24]
- James Rosen - Fox News reporter
- William Safire - columnist, The New York Times[25]
- Daniel Schorr (1916 - ) journalist who has covered the world for more than 60 years, now a senior news analyst for National Public Radio[26]
- George Seldes - World War I correspondent, post-war international reporter and media critic[27]
- Joel Siegel - film critic[28]
- Neal Shapiro - President, NBC News[29]
- Robert B. Silvers - co-editor of the New York Review of Books
- Gloria Steinem - feminist editor and writer, founder of Ms. magazine[30]
- Jon Stewart - Host of The Daily Show with Jon Stewarton Comedy Central. Peabody Award winner.
- I. F. Stone - left-wing Washington correspondent and investigative journalist, NY Post, PM, The Nation and I.F. Stone's Weekly. [31]
- Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. - publisher, The New York Times[32]
- Mike Wallace (1918 - ) journalist, 60 Minutes correspondent[33]
- Barbara Walters - anchor for Today, ABC Evening News, 20/20, first female evening news anchor[34]
- Walter Winchell - investigative broadcast journalist and gossip columnist[35]
- Gideon Yago - MTV reporter[36]
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- ^ [1] "American left-wing Jewish leader Dan Abrams"
- ^ [2] [3]
- ^ [4] "the Jewish reporter Carl Bernstein, who busted Nixon, in All the President’s Men..."
- ^ [5]
- ^ [6] "Central to the book is Buchwald's love affair with Ann McGarry. She was Catholic, he Jewish:"
- ^ [7] "Katie Couric came out of the religious closet recently by announcing that she is Jewish."
- ^ [8] ""She's an informed anchor, and totally unafraid to be Jewish on the air," Brandwynne said. "There was a time when it wasn't such a hot idea to admit that you were Jewish. We've come to another place." "I love our history, our perseverance, our individuality and devotion to family," Fernandez said. "I'm very proud of the Jewish people and [their] contributions to society and world culture.""
- ^ [9] "This, combined with the fact that Friedman is Jewish, makes all the more..."
- ^ [10] "I wanted to dismiss Goldberg’s good fortune as just the luck of the Irish, except Bernie Goldberg is Jewish."
- ^ Jeffrey Goldberg - [11] "Goldberg recently won the Anti-Defamation League's Daniel Pearl Award and goes so far as to suggest that being Jewish has benefited him in his dealings with terrorists. "I've always found it to my advantage. I use my Jewishness as a tool.""
- ^ [12] "It says: "Santa Knows We're Jewish.""
- ^ [13] "Unlike most Jewish youngsters of their era, they led rootless lives..."
- ^ [14] "Halperin became a bar mitzvah at Bethesda’s Conservative Congregation Beth El."
- ^ [15] "“You’re Jewish, aren’t you, Seymour?” In all our previous conversations..."
- ^ [16] [17]
- ^ [18] "They are female and Jewish. They both owed a lot to the West and then made it in New York..." (need subscription to view full article)
- ^ [19]"..the Jewish Mr. Chips."
- ^ [20] "Tonight, ABC's Ted Koppel — who is Jewish and whose wife is Catholic..."
- ^ [21] "So which Jews make the list? New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, and columnist Krugman
- ^ [22] "As a Jew, I have always wished for and worked toward peace and civility in the Palestinian territories and Israel."
- ^ [23] "Friends, family remember slain Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl..."
- ^ [24] "few months back, leftist Jewish critics, such as Frank Rich, Abraham Foxman and Leon Wieseltier..."
- ^ [25] "His name was Geraldo Rivera (pictured), an attorney, he was young, Jewish / Hispanic" [26] [27]
- ^ [28] "But Steve, a Jewish boy from New Jersey, was in strange territory..."
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- ^ Schorr - [30] "Schorr suggests in the 2004 anthology “I Am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl.” “We Jews are searchers for truth, sometimes called investigative reporting,” Schorr writes in his personal essay for the book."
- ^ [31] "Muckraking Jewish journalist George Seldes lived by the motto: "Tell the truth and run.""
- ^ [32] "But Siegel, who discussed his experiences growing up Jewish in America..."
- ^ [33] "So which Jews make the list? ...NBC News president Neal Shapiro...
- ^ [34] "And Gloria became a professional liberal. That’s easy for a Jewish girl from Cleveland whose father was a junk dealer and who went to Smith College…. (1958)"
- ^ [35]
- ^ [36] "So which Jews make the list? ...New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger...
- ^ Wallace - [37] "Wallace, who said he is Jewish and was brought up in a Zionist home, admitted that earlier in the day he “got himself in trouble for asking provocative questions.”"
- ^ [38] "So which Jews make the list? ...Barbara Walters...
- ^ [39] "Walter Winchell, a lower class Russian-American Jewish boy who morphed..."
- ^ [40] "Meet Gideon Yago, the 25-year-old Jew from New York, who was sent to cover America's war in Iraq for MTV."
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