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Joyce Brothers was a psychologist well known for her TV appearances. She also wrote a daily advice column in newspapers from 1960 to 2013.
Mario Machado was a broadcast reporter in the Los Angeles area. He was also known for playing a reporter in movies such as RoboCop, Brian’s Song, Rocky III, and Scarface.
Al Neuharth was the founder of USA Today, and former chairman of Gannett. He was also a columnist From South Dakota, Neuharth started out co-founding SoDak Sports, a local newspaper covering the sports scene in South Dakota. It went bankrupt within a year, but that didn’t stop him from becoming a hugely successful publisher, obviously.
Storm Thorgerson was a graphic designer, best known for his work with various high-profile rock bands including Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Muse, and Scorpions. That Dark Side of the Moon cover? Yeah, that was Storm Thorgerson.
Anthony Lewis, 85, is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and New York Times columnist. He was most well known for his column, “Abroad at Home,” which tackled subjects like free speech, human rights and constitutional law. He won Pulitzers in 1955 and 1963. The latter was for a book called, “Gideon’s Trumpet” that followed a [...]
Stanley Karnow was a well-respected American Journalist and Historian whose book “In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines” won him the coveted Pulitzer Prize for History. Karnow was a World War II veteran who graduated from Harvard and began his journalism career in the early 1950s. He is probably best known for his coverage [...]
Richard Ben Cramer was a journalist, and a Pulitzer Prize winner, and a New York Times bestselling author who even wrote a documentary that was nominated for an Academy Award. As a journalist, Cramer wrote for The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Baltimore Sun, Esquire Magazine, and Rolling Stone. He won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting [...]
Ada Louise Huxtable was an influential architecture critic who wrote for the New York Times from the ’60s to the ’80s. She was a lover of cities and spaces which held history, and was involved with the Landmarks Preservation Commission on a mission to keep some places sacred rather than have a city where everything [...]
Helen Gurley Brown was the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine for 32 years. She was also an author. Her book Sex and the Single Girl was published in 1962, and became a best-seller. She became editor-in-chief at Cosmo in 1965, saving the magazine from failing. She held the role until 1997, when she was ousted, and [...]
Faas was a photo-journalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. He is best known for his work during the Vietnam War. He joined the Associated Press (AP) in 1956, where he got the reputation of being a hard-news war photographe, covering Laos, Vietnam, Congo, and Algeria. In 1962 he became the AP’s chief photographer of Southeast [...]
Mike Wallace was a journalist, and was most well-known for his work on CBS’ 60 Minutes. He was one of the original reporters, when the program began in 1968. He retired from the show in 2006, though he appeared occasionally for the following couple of years. Wallace was also a game show host, having hosted [...]
Breitbart was an author, Washington Times commentator, and publisher. He is also known for his various appearances on various programs and being an editor for the Drudge Report website. Also in the realm of the Internet he was a researcher for Arianna Huffington, and helped launch, The Huffington Post. Breitbart also ran his own sites: [...]
Marie Colvin was an American-born Journalist who wrote for the British Newspaper The Sunday Times. Colvin was the Middle East Correspondent and Foreign Affairs Correspondent for The Sun Times, actively reporting on the front lines of Middle Eastern battles. Colvin was also known for her eye patch due to the loss of her eye in [...]
Lynn Samuels was a political radio host. She hosted a show on SiriusXM, also made available in podcast form. From Queens, New York, she worked in radio since 1979. From 2003 to 2011, she hosted The Lynn Samuels Show from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM ET on the Sirius Satellite Radio channel SIRIUS Left. This [...]
Case was a lawyer and broadcast journalist who was probably best known as the news anchor of CNN Radio from 1985 – 2011.
Andy Rooney was a radio and television personality known mainly for his segments at the end of 60 Minutes from CBS News. His commentary on the things he didn’t like became a staple of Sunday night television for many people. He appeared on the program from 1978 until 2011, when he had to step away [...]
Pierpoint was a broadcast journalist who worked for CBS. He began his career covering the Korean War, before becoming one of CBS’ White House correspondents. Pierpoint was also tasked with also covering the State Department for CBS.
Kevorkian was a pathologist, right-to-die activist, and convicted murderer. He is best known for championing a terminal patients right to die by doctor-assisted suicide. He claimed to have assisted in at least 130 terminal ill patients commit suicide.
Haines was a former host of several shows: How to Succeed in Business, Squawk Box, Morning Call, and Squawk on the Street. His co-host on Squawk on the Street, Erin Burnett, moved on to CNN with her last show being May 6th 2011. With the death of Haines, it’s unclear if the show will go [...]
If one word could describe Bob Guccione, it’s contradiction. Early in life he had tried joining a seminary, and then tried to make it as an artist. Before finally finding success as the founder and publisher of Penthouse Magazine. To those who knew him, Guccione was a polarizing personality. He was loyal and kind one [...]
Casey Johnson was a great-great-granddaughter of Robert Wood Johnson I, co-founder of Johnson & Johnson which makes her an heiress to the Johnson & Johnson fortune. Johnson is known for being a Hollywood socialite, some of her friends are Paris & Nicky Hilton, Nicole Richie, and several others. On December 9, 2009 Johnson announced that [...]
Oral Roberts was a renowned televangelist and claimed Jesus had appeared to him numerous times asking him to undertake various tasks. Under the order of Jesus, Roberts opened his own university in 1963.
Safire was an author, journalist, columnist and presidential speechwriter. He is probably most known for his long running syndicated column for the New York Times. Safire retired from his political column in 2005, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., publisher of The New York Times had the following to say about Safire… “The New York Times without Bill [...]
Dunne was an investigative journalist whose focus was generally on the way high society types interact with the judicial system. He had written six novels, two non-fiction books, two collections and produced four movies. At the time of his death he was working on his final book, Too Much Money.
Hewitt was a television executive and producer who is best known for creating the news magazine show 60 Minutes.
Novak was a syndicated columnist, political commentator and journalist for more than 45 years. He was also the author of the longest-running syndicated column in U.S. political history.
Walter Leland Cronkite was born in St. Joseph, Missouri on November 4, 1916. He entered the University of Texas at Austin in 1933 to study political science, economic and journalism but did not graduate. In 1950 he accepted a broadcast job with CBS and in 1961, was named the anchor of the "CBS Evening News". In 1967 it became the highest rated TV news program and remained there until Cronkite’s retirement in 1981.
King was the nephew of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and a senior paster at St. James Baptist Chruch in Greensboro. He was a board member for both the King Center and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. King was the youngest son of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s only brother, A.D. King Sr.
Lem was a Norwegian environmental activist, author and spokesperson for The Future In Our Hands, and anti-consumerism activist. Some of Lem’s work includes… - Signaler – compilation - Utenfor bymuren – short stories - Motlys – novel - Grenseovergang – novel - Bjørneboes menneskesyn i Frihetens øyeblikk – thesis - Den tause krigen - Det [...]
Bellows was the famed editor of L.A. Herald Examiner and well known for rescuing underdog big-city newspapers from L.A. to New York. During his prestigious career Bellows worked at the New York Herald Tribume, Los Angeles Times, Washington Star, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Entertainment Tonight, and ABC News: World News Tonight… to name a few. [...]