List of The Harvard Crimson people

This is a list of former editors of The Harvard Crimson.

Journalists and Writers

• Cleveland Amory, writer^[1]
• Eli Attie, speechwriter and screenwriter^[2]
• Michael Barone, television commentator, senior writer for U.S. News & World Report, author^[3]
• Daniel J. Boorstin, American author and writer and Librarian of Congress^[4]
• Sewell Chan, journalist for The New York Times
• Susan Chira, author, foreign editor of The New York Times^[5]
• Nicholas Ciarelli, founder and editor of Think Secret and founder of BookBub^[6]
• Adam Clymer, author, journalist for The New York Times^[7]
• Jonathan Cohn, author, journalist for The New Republic^[8]
• Richard Connell, author^[9]
• Jim Cramer, host of CNBC's Mad Money^[10]
• Michael Crichton, author^[11]
• E.J. Dionne, Jr., columnist for The Washington Post^[12]
• Esther Dyson, digital technology analyst, author^[12]
• Daniel Ellsberg, author, released the Pentagon Papers^[13]
• David Fahrenthold, political reporter for The Washington Post^[14]
• James Fallows, journalist^[12]
• Susan Faludi, author^[15]
• David Frankel, filmmaker^[16]
• V.V. Ganeshananthan, author and journalist
• George Goodman, a.k.a. "Adam Smith," hosted the Emmy award-winning program Adam Smith's Money World on PBS^[17]
• Donald E. Graham, CEO and chairman of The Washington Post Co.^[18]
• Linda Greenhouse, journalist for The New York Times^[19]
• David Halberstam, author^[12]
• Hendrik Hertzberg, journalist for The New Yorker^[20]
• David Ignatius, columnist for The Washington Post^[12]
• Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr., publisher and CEO of The Washington Post^[18]
• Joseph Kahn, Managing Editor of The New York Times^[21][22]
• Peter Kaplan, former editor-in-chief of The New York Observer, current creative director of Condé Nast Traveler
• Mickey Kaus, journalist and political blogger^[23]
• Michael Kinsley, journalist, founding editor of Slate magazine^[12]
• Nicholas D. Kristof, columnist for The New York Times^[24]
• Charles Lane, former editor of The New Republic^[25]
• Jennifer 8. Lee, journalist for The New York Times^[26]
• Nicholas Lemann, dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism^[27]
• Jessica Lessin, founder of The Information
• Anthony Lewis, author and former columnist for The New York Times^[28]
• Arthur Lubow, journalist
• J. Anthony Lukas, author and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist^[12]
• Michael Maccoby, New York Times best-selling author and psychoanalyst
• Seth Mnookin, author of Hard News^[29]
• Alexandra Petri, comedy writer for The Washington Post^[30]
• Frank Rich, columnist for The New York Times^[31]
• Steven V. Roberts, former reporter for The New York Times, television journalist^[32]
• Scott Rosenberg, co-founder of Salon.com^[33]
• Jack Rosenthal, journalist for The New York Times and president of The New York Times Company Foundation^[34][35]
• David Sanger, journalist for The New York Times^[36]
• Nell Scovell, creator of Sabrina the Teenage Witch and co-author of Lean In^[37]
• Robert Ellis Smith, noted journalist and creator of the Privacy Journal^[38]
• Whit Stillman, filmmaker^[39]
• Ira Stoll, New York Sun executive
• Katrina Szish, television personality^[40]
• Evan Thomas, associate managing editor of Newsweek^[41]
• Jeffrey Toobin, senior legal analyst for CNN^[24]
• Pablo S. Torre, ESPN writer and television personality^[42]
• Craig Unger, author and journalist
• George Weller, novelist, playwright, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist for The New York Times and The Chicago Daily News^[43]
• Mark Whitaker, Senior Vice President of NBC News, former editor of Newsweek^[44]
• Elizabeth Wurtzel, author^[45]
• Jeff Zucker, former president and CEO of NBC Universal^[46] Now head of CNN.

Business

• George Abrams, lawyer and businessman^[47]
• Steve Ballmer, former CEO of Microsoft^[48]
• Parker Conrad, founder of Zenefits ^[49]
• Robert Decherd, CEO of A. H. Belo Corporation
• Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services^[50][51]
• James S. Marcus, investment banker and philanthropist^[52]

Academia

• Stephen Barnett (1935–2009), legal scholar at University of California, Berkeley School of Law who opposed the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970^[53]
• Peter Kramer, psychiatrist, author^[12]
• Thomas Samuel Kuhn, philosopher and historian of science
• Charles S. Maier, professor of history at Harvard^[54]
• Eric Nelson, professor of government at Harvard^[55]

Government

• Richard Blumenthal, Senator from Connecticut^[56]
• Blair Clark, manager of Eugene McCarthy's 1968 presidential campaign^[57]
• Tom Cotton, Senator from Arkansas^[58]
• Brian Fallon, press secretary for Hillary Clinton during her 2016 presidential campaign^[59]
• James Glassman, journalist, diplomat, and director of the George W. Bush Institute
• C. Boyden Gray, Committee for Justice chairman and White House Counsel to President George H. W. Bush^[60]
• Caroline Kennedy, U.S. ambassador to Japan and daughter of U.S. President John F. Kennedy^[61]
• John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States^[11]
• Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform^[62]
• Mark Penn, chief political strategist for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign^[63]
• Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States^[11]
• Elise Stefanik, Representative from New York^[64]
• Paul Sweezy, Marxist economist and funder of the Monthly Review^[65]
• Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan^[66]

Law

• David Barron, circuit judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
• David Bruck, capital defense attorney
• Garrett Epps, author and law school professor
• Merrick Garland, Circuit Judge and former Supreme Court nominee^[67]

Other

• Mark Gearan, former Peace Corps director^[68]
• Bill McKibben, environmentalist, author^[69]
• David Stearns, general manager of the Milwaukee Brewers^[70]
• Andrew Weil, alternative medicine advocate^[71]

References