Notable alumni

Medill alumni have been successful wherever they go after graduating from Northwestern.

A few notable alumni:

Jonathan Addleton (79) - USAID mission director, Mongolia
Mara Brock Akil (92) - executive producer, Girlfriends
Elizabeth Allen (75) - vice president of corporate communications, Dell Computer
Michael Anderson (74) - editor, New York Times Book Review
Gigi Barnett (00) - reporter for WJZ-TV, Baltimore
Julia Dunham Bauer (71) - former business editor, Easton, Pennsylvania Express-Times
Joan Beck (45) - former member of Chicago Tribune editorial board, author
David Boardman (79) - managing editor, The Seattle Times, Pulitzer Prize winner
Elizabeth Brenner (76) - publisher, Tacoma News Tribune
Elizabeth Bumiller (77) - White House correspondent, The New York Times
Ben Burns (34) - founding editor of Ebony, Jet, and Negro Digest
Lisa Caputo - former press secretary to former First Lady Hillary Clinton
Joie Chen (82) - correspondent, CBS News
Cindy Chupack (87) - former executive producer, Sex and the City; former writer, Coach and Everybody Loves Raymond
Rance Crain (60) - president and editor-in-chief, Crain Communications Inc.
Les Crystal (56) - executive producer, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer
Kathy Coffman Davis (63) - management communications program director, Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Karen Lipschultz DeCrow (59) - former president, National Organization for Women (NOW)
Candy Kaelin Deemer (76) - former co-managing director and COO, DDB Needham Worldwide
George deLama (79) - deputy managing editor for news, Chicago Tribune
Ivan Doig (61) - author
Bruce Dold (77) - editorial page editor, Chicago Tribune; Pulitzer Prize winner
Howard S. Dubin (54) - chairman and CEO, Manufacturer's News, Inc.
Tananarive Due (87) - author
Robert Eaton (63) - senior vice president and managing editor, ESPN
Erika Ehmsem (97) - copy editor, Sunset magazine
William Evans (92) - director of public relations, Cleveland Cavaliers
Jodi Fleising (82) - supervising executive producer, CNN Atlanta
Marcia Flellick (83) - Sunday news editor, Chicago Sun-Times
Alvin From (65) - president, Democratic Leadership Council
Jack Fuller (68) - president, Tribune Publishing; Pulitzer Prize winner and author
Glenn Geffner (90) - executive director of communications, San Diego Padres
Georgie Anne Geyer (56) - nationally syndicated columnist
Michael Greenberg (89) - anchor, ESPN Radio
Todd Alan Marshall Happer (88) - marketing director, Scientific American Explorations; science and museum editor, Natural History
Richard Harris (76) - senior broadcast producer, ABCNews Nightline
Jenny Hontz (93) - former TV editor, Variety; former vice president of creative affairs, Touchstone Television
Stephen Hunter (68) - film critic, Washington Post; Pulitzer Prize winner
Jenelle Walter Isaacson (03) - assignment editor, FOX 6 News Milwaukee
Jeff Jarvis (75) - founder, Entertainment Weekly; media consultant
Lisa Hammond Johnson (90) - assistant U.S. attorney, Cleveland district
Bella Kleinberg (99) - producer, WXYZ-TV Detroit
Elaine Kramer (79) - managing editor, Orlando Sentinel
Vincent Laforet (97) - Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, The New York Times
Robert Leighton (82) - cartoonist, The New Yorker
Neely Marcus (99) - assistant legislative affairs officer, U.S. Pacific Command
Garry Marshall (56) - TV and movie producer
George R. R. Martin (70) - author
Terri Minsky (80) - executive producer, Lizzie McGuire
Robert E. Mulholland (55) - former president, NBC
Brent Musburger (61) - sportscaster, ABC-TV
Dina Capillo Niblock (91) - graphics editor, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Terrence Noland (89) - articles editor, Esquire magazine
Barry Petersen - correspondent, CBS News
Tom Philp - (83) associate editor and editorial board member, The Sacramento Bee; Pulitzer Prize winner in editorial writing
Howard Price (80) - chief night assignment editor, WABC-TV New York; Peabody Award winner and two-time Emmy Award winner
Steven Reddicliffe (75) - former editor-in-chief, TV Guide
Bruce Rheins (81) - producer, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather
Dorothy Ridings - president and CEO, Council on Foundations
Rick Rockwell (79) - associate professor of journalism, American University
Daniel Roth (95) - senior writer, Fortune magazine
Paul Sagan (81) - president, Akamai Technologies; Emmy Award-winning journalist
Stu Schwartz (66) - producer, Good Morning America
Ellen Soeteber (72) - editor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Alisa Ann Starks (82) - president/owner, Inner City Entertainment
Neil Steinberg (82) - columnist, Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Stolley (52) - senior editorial adviser, Time, Inc.; former founding managing editor, People
Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan (96) - staff writer, Wall Street Journal
Alysia Tate (94) - editor and publisher, Chicago Reporter
Cesar Torres (96) - senior web writer and editor, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
Staci Adelman Vincent (87) - recipient of the Emmy, Best of Gannett, and the Society of Professional Journalists Excellence Awards
Lori Waldon-DeAdwyler (84) - managing editor, KPIX-TV
Julia Wallace (78) - editor, Atlanta Journal-Constitution; named 2005 Editor of the Year by Editor and Publisher magazine
John Walter (69) - former managing editor, Atlanta Journal Constitution
Richard Wartzman (87) - business editor, Los Angeles Times
Laura Washington (78) - columnist, Chicago Sun-Times; former editor and publisher, Chicago Reporter
Frances Cole Westrup (48) - member of the board of directors, Union Hospital in Indiana
Michael Wilbon (80) - columnist, Washington Post; co-host, ESPN's Pardon the Interruption
Eric Zuckerman (02), news producer and editor, The FeedRoom at WNBC-TV, NY