The following is a list of notable people who have served on the staff of The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper at Harvard University.
Authors, journalists, and writers Editors, journalists, and reporters Jonathan Alter, author covering U.S. presidents Joseph Alsop, political reporter Marc Ambinder, journalist, USC professor, and television producer Cleveland Amory, writer and animal rights activist; former Crimson president William M. Beecher, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Minnesota Star Tribune Nina Bernstein, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for The New York Times Jess Bravin, Wall Street Journal reporter covering the Supreme Court of the United States Bartle Bull, editor for Middle East Monitor and Prospect David Burnham, reporter for The New York Times Diane Cardwell, renewable energy reporter for The New York Times Sewell Chan, journalist for The Los Angeles Times Susan Chira, Pulitzer Prize winner and former editor-in-chief of The Marshall Project; former Crimson president Nicholas Ciarelli, founder and editor of Think Secret; founder of BookBub Adam Clymer, author, journalist for The New York Times; former Crimson president Jonathan Cohn, author, journalist for HuffPost; former Crimson president Deborah Copaken, author and photojournalist Sarah Crichton, writer and editor William O. Dapping, reporter for The Citizen in Auburn, New York Lynn Darling, reporter and editor at The Washington Post and Esquire Esther Dyson, digital technology analyst, author Daniel Ellsberg, author, released the Pentagon Papers David Fahrenthold, Pulitzer Prize–winning political reporter for The New York Times James Fallows, journalist and speechwriter for Jimmy Carter; former Crimson president Susan Faludi, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter and author Christopher John Farley, culture writer for The Wall Street Journal Sydney P. Freedberg, Pulitzer Prize winner and investigative reporter Alix M. Freedman, reporter and editor with The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Reuters Otto Fuerbringer, former editor of Time; former Crimson president Susan Glasser, journalist at The New Yorker Burt Glinn, photojournalist George Goodman, a.k.a. "Adam Smith," hosted the Emmy award-winning program Adam Smith's Money World on PBS Garrett Graff, former editor of Politico Magazine and the Washingtonian Linda Greenhouse, journalist for The New York Times Michael Grunwald, journalist at Politico Magazine Anemona Hartocollis, reporter for The New York Times Laurie Hays, reporter and editor for The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News Rosalind S. Helderman, reporter with The New York Times Hendrik Hertzberg, journalist for The New Yorker Fred Hiatt, Pulitzer Prize winner and editor for The Washington Post Harry Hurt III, writer, professional golfer, and biographer of Donald Trump Peter Kaplan, former editor-in-chief of The New York Observer, current creative director of Condé Nast Traveler Mickey Kaus, journalist and political blogger Sam Koppelman, journalist, founder of Hunterbrook Charles Lane, former editor of The New Republic Jennifer 8. Lee, former journalist for The New York Times Ivan Levingston, reporter for the Financial Times Anthony Lewis, Pulitzer Prize winner, author, and former columnist for The New York Times Annie Lowrey, author and staff writer at The Atlantic Arthur Lubow, journalist J. Anthony Lukas, author and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Michael M. Luo, executive editor of The New Yorker Dylan Matthews, writer for Vox Victor McElheny, science journalist and founder of the Knight Science Journalism program Seth Mnookin, author of Hard News Ivan Oransky, co-founder of Retraction Watch Evan Osnos, journalist for The New Yorker Alexandra Petri, comedy writer for The Washington Post Steven V. Roberts, former reporter for The New York Times, television journalist Margot Roosevelt, labor reporter for the Los Angeles Times and great-granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt Scott Rosenberg, co-founder of Salon.com and editor at Axios Yair Rosenberg, staff writer for The Atlantic Claire Saffitz, food critic, YouTube personality, and former writer for Bon Appétit David Sanger, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist for The New York Times Charlie Savage, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist for The New York Times Raymond Sokolov, food critic for The Wall Street Journal Michael Sragow, film critic Richard Strout, journalist with The Christian Science Monitor and The New Republic Steven C. Swett, reporter with The Baltimore Sun, The Wall Street Journal, and Valley News William Roscoe Thayer, author, editor, and historian Evan Thomas, associate managing editor of Newsweekhttp://archives.cjr.org/year/96/6/fallows.as James Ulmer, entertainment reporter and namesake of the Ulmer scale Craig Unger, author and journalist Amy Wilentz, journalist and contributing editor at The Nation Graeme Wood, author and journalist at The Atlantic Annie Zaleski, music historian and reporter
Columnists, critics, and opinion writers Steve Chapman, columnist, Chicago Tribune Noam Cohen, author and columnist for The New York Times E. J. Dionne, columnist for The Washington Post Ross Douthat, columnist for The New York Times David Ignatius, columnist for The Washington Post Nicholas D. Kristof, Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist for The New York Times Frank Rich, columnist for The New York Times Robert J. Samuelson, reporter and columnist Stephen Stromberg, Washington Post editorial board
Executives, founders, and publishers Ravi Agrawal, editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy Alessandra Galloni, editor in chief of Reuters Donald E. Graham, CEO and chairman of The Washington Post Co.; former Crimson president Sam Jacobs, editor-in-chief of Time Boisfeuillet Jones Jr., publisher and CEO of The Washington Post; former Crimson president Joseph Kahn, executive editor of The New York Times; former Crimson president Michael Kinsley, journalist, founding editor of Slate magazine Wendy Lesser, founder of The Threepenny Review Jessica Lessin, founder of The Information Eric Newcomer, tech journalist and founder of the publication Newcomer Noah Oppenheim, president of NBC News David Plotz, former CEO of Atlas Obscura and host of Slate Political Gabfest Jack Rosenthal, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist for The New York Times and president of the New York Times Company Foundation Robert Ellis Smith, journalist and creator of the Privacy Journal; former Crimson president Ira Stoll, New York Sun executive; former Crimson president Joseph J. Thorndike, managing editor of Life and co-founder of American Heritage and Horizon Mark Whitaker, senior vice president of NBC News, former editor of Newsweek
Foreign correspondents David Halberstam, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter and author and author Selig S. Harrison, reporter specializing in North Korea and East Asia Javier Hernández, Tokyo bureau chief of The New York Times Peter R. Kann, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for The Wall Street Journal Philip Pan, journalist and author Anton Troianovski, Moscow bureau chief of The New York Times George Weller, novelist, playwright, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist for The New York Times and The Chicago Daily News Theodore H. White, prominent political and WWII journalist
Authors Lisa Brennan-Jobs, author and daughter of Steve Jobs Michael Crichton, author John Putnam Demos, author and historian of the Salem witch trials Nikki Erlick, novelist V.V. Ganeshananthan, author and journalist James Gleick, author and historian of science Henry James, writer and biographer Myron Kaufmann, novelist and author of Remember Me to God Charles Thornton Libby, author and historian Michael Maccoby, New York Times best-selling author and psychoanalyst; former Crimson president Michael Massing, MacArthur Fellow and author of books on the war on drugs and the Iraq War Martin Mayer, novelist Matthew Quirk, novelist Michael E. Raynor, author of books on business management Abraham Josephine Riesman, reporter and biographer David Riesman, sociologist and author of The Lonely Crowd Joel Townsley Rogers, science fiction writer Bayard Tuckerman, biographer Suzy Welch, business author and wife of General Electric CEO Jack Welch Owen Wister, author of The Virginian and "father of Western fiction" Elizabeth Wurtzel, author
Sports reporters Andrew Beyer, horse racing reporter and inventor of the Beyer Speed Figure Jennifer Frey, sports reporter for The New York Times and The Washington Post Gwen Knapp, sports reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer, the San Francisco Examiner, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The New York Times Jon Morosi, reporter with MLB Network and NHL Network John Powers, Pulitzer Prize winner, sports reporter for The Boston Globe, and the "dean of Olympic journalists" Pablo Torre, ESPN writer, television personality, podcast host
Radio and television Michael Barone, television commentator, writer for The Washington Examiner, author Irin Carmon, reporter for MSNBC Jim Cramer, host of CNBC's Mad Money; former Crimson president David Greene, reporter for NPR nad host of Left, Right & Center Jennifer Griffin, Pentagon correspondent for Fox News Mary Louise Kelly, co-host of NPR's All Things Considered Melissa Lee, CNBC news anchor Errol Louis, journalist and television show host Abby Phillip, CNN news anchor Katrina Szish, television personality Jeffrey Toobin, senior legal analyst for CNN Selina Wang, White House correspondent for ABC News Kristen Welker, NBC News and Meet the Press host
Academia Administrators David Bosco, associate dean of the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University James Bryant Conant, president of Harvard University 1933–1953 William Emerson, first dean of the MIT School of Architecture Mark Gearan, former Peace Corps director and president of the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics Carol J. Greenhouse, professor at Princeton University, sister of Linda Greenhouse Nicholas Lemann, dean emeritus of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism; former Crimson president Alfred Henry Lloyd, philosopher and interim president at the University of Michigan Jennifer Mnookin, president of Columbia University John U. Monro, dean of Harvard College Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Peter Tufano, former dean of the Saïd Business School
Professors Humanities Stephen Barnett, legal scholar at University of California, Berkeley School of Law who opposed the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970; former Crimson president Nancy Bauer, professor of philosophy at Tufts University and dean of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts Marilyn Booth, professor at the University of Oxford David Bruck, law professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law Randall Collins, sociologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania Geoffrey Cowan, professor at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism Jamal Greene, professor at Columbia Law School Farah Griffin, professor of African-American literature at Columbia University Benjamin W. Heineman Jr., writer, GE executive, and professor at Harvard Law School James Hershberg, professor of international history specializing in the Cold War at George Washington University Richard Hyland, professor at Rutgers Law School Christopher Jencks, professor and social scientist Thomas Samuel Kuhn, philosopher and historian of science Charles Kurzman, professor of Islamic studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Charles S. Maier, professor of history at Harvard University F. Warren McFarlan, professor at Harvard Business School John Ulric Nef, economic historian Eric M. Nelson, professor of government at Harvard Maurice Samuels, professor of French at Yale University; director of the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism Martha A. Sandweiss, professor of history at Princeton University