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.
- Martin Agronsky - Reporter and host of Agronsky and Company[1][2]
- Bonnie Bernstein — sports journalist[3]
- Carl Bernstein — investigative reporter for the Washington Post, uncovered Watergate with Bob Woodward.[4]
- David Brooks — columnist, The New York Times[5]
- Aaron Brown — former anchor of CNN's Newsnight with Aaron Brown, ABC's World News Now, and ABC's World News Tonight Saturday[6]
- Lisa Crystal Carver — sex columnist, Nerve.com [7]
- Matt Drudge — founder of The Drudge Report[8]
- Giselle Fernández — host of Access Hollywood[9]
- Thomas Friedman — columnist, The New York Times[10]
- Bernard Goldberg — CBS News reporter[11]
- Jeffrey Goldberg (1965–) journalist, staff writer for The New Yorker and author of the book Prisoners[12]
- David Halberstam — Vietnam War correspondent[13]
- Seymour Hersh — investigative journalist, uncovered My Lai massacre[14]
- Paul Krugman — columnist, The New York Times[15]
- Dave Marash — Washington-based anchor of Al-Jazeera's English language 24 hour news channel.[16]
- Suzy Menkes, fashion journalist [28]
- Daniel Pearl — murdered foreign correspondent[17]
- Frank Rich — columnist, The New York Times[18]
- Geraldo Rivera — investigative television journalist and host, now with Fox News[19]
- Steven V. Roberts — Washington pundit and U.S. News and World Report contributor[20]
- William Safire — columnist, The New York Times[21]
- Daniel Schorr (1916–) journalist who has covered the world for more than 60 years, now a senior news analyst for National Public Radio[22]
- George Seldes — World War I correspondent, post-war international reporter and media critic[23]
- Joel Siegel — film critic[24]
- Gloria Steinem — feminist editor and writer, founder of Ms. magazine[25]
- I. F. Stone — left-wing Washington correspondent and investigative journalist, NY Post, PM, The Nation and I.F. Stone's Weekly.[26]
- Mike Wallace (1918–) journalist, 60 Minutes correspondent[27]
- Barbara Walters (1929–) media personality, a regular fixture on morning television shows (Today and The View), evening news magazines (20/20), and on The ABC Evening News, as the first female evening news anchor[28]
- Walter Winchell — investigative broadcast journalist and gossip columnist[29]
- Gideon Yago MTV reporter[30]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Obituary from Chicago Sun-Times July 21, 1999 (source findarticles.com)
- ^ "Interview With Pearl Paterson Thompson" interviewed by Greg Kupsky, from Rutgers Oral History Archives: "GK: Did you ever see any examples of anti-Semitism at Rutgers? PT: [....]There was someone else I knew who changed his name, and there was a very famous columnist, Martin Agronsky [Rutgers College, 1936], who is listed in the Rutgers yearbook as Martin Agrons, but later, a few years afterwards when he became famous, he decided to live up to his name. So, I had and still have some very good Jewish friends."
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- ^ [3] "the Jewish reporter Carl Bernstein, who busted Nixon, in All the President’s Men..."
- ^ [4] "He listed a few of "us"..."
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- ^ [6]Convert to Judaism
- ^ Matt Drudge and Julia Phillips (2000). DRUDGE MANIFESTO, Chapter one (html). Denver Post. Retrieved on 2007-03-02.
- ^ [7] ""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.""
- ^ [8] "This, combined with the fact that Friedman is Jewish, makes all the more..."
- ^ [9] "I wanted to dismiss Goldberg’s good fortune as just the luck of the Irish, except Bernie Goldberg is Jewish."
- ^ Jeffrey Goldberg — [10] "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.""
- ^ [11] "Unlike most Jewish youngsters of their era, they led rootless lives..."
- ^ [12] "“You’re Jewish, aren’t you, Seymour?” In all our previous conversations..."
- ^ [13] "So which Jews make the list? New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, and columnist Krugman
- ^ [14] "As a Jew, I have always wished for and worked toward peace and civility in the Palestinian territories and Israel."
- ^ [15] "Friends, family remember slain Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl..."
- ^ [16] "few months back, leftist Jewish critics, such as Frank Rich, Abraham Foxman and Leon Wieseltier..."
- ^ [17] "His name was Geraldo Rivera (pictured), an attorney, he was young, Jewish / Hispanic" [18] [19]
- ^ [20] "But Steve, a Jewish boy from New Jersey, was in strange territory..."
- ^ Powell's Books - Best Contemporary Jewish Writing by Michael Lerner
- ^ Schorr — [21] "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."
- ^ [22] "Muckraking Jewish journalist George Seldes lived by the motto: "Tell the truth and run.""
- ^ [23] "But Siegel, who discussed his experiences growing up Jewish in America..."
- ^ [24] "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)"
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- ^ Wallace — [25] "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.”"
- ^ Quinn, Sally. "Television Personality Looks Anew At Religion", Washington Post/Newsweek, 2006-12-22. Retrieved on 2006-12-22.
- ^ [26] "Walter Winchell, a lower class Russian-American Jewish boy who morphed..."
- ^ [27] "Meet Gideon Yago, the 25-year-old Jew from New York, who was sent to cover America's war in Iraq for MTV."
