Roone Arledge: the long-time president of ABC Sports and ABC News, Arledge launched Monday Night Football and helped turn ABC News from an also-ran in the 1970s into a leading news organization. Hannah Arendt: a political thinker, author of The Origins of Totalitarianism, who reported the Eichmann trial for the New Yorker those articles were turned into the book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil in 1963. John Lee Anderson: an author and investigative journalist, Anderson has spend much time reporting from war zones for organizations like the New York Times, the Nation and the New Yorker. Roger Angell: an essayist and journalist, known in particular for his lyrical, incisive New Yorker pieces about baseball. Joseph Alsop: a journalist and then an influential columnist from the 1930s through the 1970s created the political column Matter of Fact with his brother Stewart Alsop in 1946.Ĭhristiane Amanpour: long-time and distinguished international reporter for CNN now also works for ABC News. Roger Ailes: founding president of Fox News Channel in 1996 and former president of CNBC, who also served as a top media consultant for a number of prominent Republican candidates. James Agee: a journalist, critic, poet, screenwriter and novelist who wrote the text for Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a celebration of depression-era sharecropper families. – Mitchell Stephens, Professor of Journalism, NYUĮddie Adams: an Associated Press photographer who took one of the iconic photos of the Vietnam War: of a Saigon execution. Unity, for example, an organization of journalists of color, has released in response a “ seed list” of accomplished journalists with diverse backgrounds. These lists are intended to begin, not end, a conversation on what makes for outstanding journalism. The final list of 100 was announced at a reception in honor of the 100th anniversary of journalism education at NYU on April 3, 2012. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University for our list of “the 100 Outstanding Journalists in the United States in the Last 100 Years.” These nominations were compiled and voted on in March 2012. Here is the list of nominees, plus write-ins, by the faculty at the Arthur L. The 100 Outstanding Journalists in the United States in the Last 100 Years: Nominees

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