List of Jewish American journalists

This is a list of notable Jewish American journalists. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.

Carl Bernstein

Wolf Blitzer

Bernie Goldberg

Larry King

William Safire

Gideon Yago

• Jill Abramson — journalist and former executive editor of The New York Times[1]
• Martin Agronsky — reporter and host of Agronsky & Company[2][3]
• Dana Bash — political correspondent at CNN[4]
• Emily Bazelon[5][6]
• Kate Bolduan — CNN[7]
• Bonnie Bernstein — sports journalist[8]
• Carl Bernstein — investigative reporter for The Washington Post, uncovered Watergate with Bob Woodward[9]
• Wolf Blitzer — journalist and anchor for CNN[10]
• David S. Broder — Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post
• David Brooks — columnist, The New York Times[11]
• Mona Charen — journalist[12]
• Benyamin Cohen — founder of Jewsweek and American Jewish Life Magazine[13]
• Katie Couric — journalist who currently serves as Yahoo! Global News Anchor. She has worked with all Big Three television networks in the United States, and in her early career was an Assignment Editor for CNN[14][15][16]
• Benjamin De Casseres — early 20th-century journalist, critic and individualist anarchist[17]
• Morton Dean — CBS News reporter[18]
• Matt Drudge — founder of the Drudge Report[19]
• Giselle Fernández — host of Access Hollywood[20]
• Max Frankel[21]
• Thomas Friedman — columnist, The New York Times[22]
• Bob Garfield — NPR and ABC News journalist, columnist, and author[23]
• Brooke Gladstone — Peabody Award-winning NPR journalist and author[23]
• Hadas Gold — CNN[24]
• Bernard Goldberg — CBS News reporter[25]
• Jeffrey Goldberg (1965–) — journalist, staff writer for The New Yorker and author of the book Prisoners[26]
• Jonah Goldberg — columnist, commentator and Senior Editor of National Review[27]
• Linda Greenhouse — Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times[28]
• Clyde Haberman (1945–)[29][30][31]
• David Halberstam — Vietnam War correspondent[32]
• Seymour Hersh — investigative journalist, uncovered My Lai massacre[33]
• Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) — literary critic and political activist[34][35]
• Eliana Johnson — Washington Editor for National Review[36]
• Tamara Keith — NPR[37]
• John King — CNN[38]
• Larry King — RT America and former CNN host[39]
• Ezra Klein — journalist, blogger, political commentator; co-founder and editor-at-large of Vox[40]
• Charles Krauthammer — columnist and commentator for Fox News and The Washington Post[41][42]
• Paul Krugman — Nobel Prize-winning economist and columnist, The New York Times[43]
• Cynthia Leive — Glamour[44]
• Joe Lelyveld[21]
• Mark Levin — lawyer, author, and radio personality[45]
• Franz Lidz — Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian[46]
• Dave Marash — former Washington-based anchor for Al Jazeera English[47]
• Ruth Marcus (journalist) — journalist [48]
• Suzy Menkes — fashion journalist[49]
• Edwin Newman — NBC News journalist, Broadway critic, author[50]
• David Pakman — political pundit and academic; host of the syndicated political program The David Pakman Show[51]
• Daniel Pearl (1963–2002) — murdered foreign correspondent, The Wall Street Journal[52]
• John Podhoretz — writer, editor of Commentary magazine, columnist for the New York Post, author of several books on politics[53]
• Nathan Rabin — music and pop culture journalist[54]
• Frank Rich — columnist, New York magazine[55]
• Geraldo Rivera — investigative television journalist and host, now with Fox News[56]
• Steven V. Roberts — Washington pundit and U.S. News and World Report contributor[57]
• Lester Rodney — journalist who helped break down the color barrier in baseball [58]
• A.M. Rosenthal[21]
• William Safire — columnist, The New York Times[59]
• Robert J. Samuelson — columnist, The Washington Post[60]
• Kasriel Hirsch Sarasohn – founder of Jewish Weekly, Jewish Gazette, and Jewish Daily News[61]
• Michael Savage — radio host, author, and conservative political commentator[62]
• Daniel Schorr (1916–2010) — journalist who covered the world for more than 60 years, last as a senior news analyst for NPR[63]
• George Seldes — World War I correspondent, post-war international reporter and media critic[64]
• Ben Shapiro — conservative political commentator, public speaker, author, and lawyer[65]
• David Shuster — television journalist; former anchor for MSNBC; worked for Fox News, CNN, Current TV, and Al Jazeera America[66]
• Joel Siegel — film critic[67]
• Nate Silver — writer who analyzes baseball and elections, founder and editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight, Special Correspondent for ABC News[68]
• Joel Stein — columnist, Los Angeles Times[69]
• Gloria Steinem — feminist editor and writer, founder of Ms. magazine[70]
• Bret Stephens — journalist, editor, and columnist, since April 2017 at The New York Times and June 2017 as a senior contributor to NBC News.[71]
• I. F. Stone — left-wing Washington correspondent and investigative journalist, NY Post, PM, The Nation and I.F. Stone's Weekly[72]
• Jonathan Swan[73]
• Katy Tur – journalist and anchor for MSNBC[74]
• Jake Tapper — CNN anchor and correspondent[75]
• Chris Wallace — journalist, Fox News[76]
• Mike Wallace (1918–2012) — journalist, 60 Minutes correspondent[77]
• 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[78]
• Miriam Weiner — Jewish genealogist who wrote syndicated "Roots and Branches" column that was published in 100+ Jewish newspapers and periodicals[79]
• Bari Weiss (born 1984) - opinion writer and editor
• Marco Werman — radio journalist and host of PRI's The World[80]
• Walter Winchell — investigative broadcast journalist and gossip columnist[81]
• Michael Wolff — journalist/columnist, USA Today, The Hollywood Reporter[82]
• Gideon Yago — MTV reporter[83]
• David Zurawik — TV and media critic at The Baltimore Sun[84]

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