List of The Harvard Crimson people

This is a list of former editors of The Harvard Crimson.

Journalists and writers

• Ravi Agrawal, reporter for CNN^[1]
• Jonathan Alter, author covering U.S. Presidents^[2]
• Cleveland Amory, writer^[3]
• Eli Attie, speechwriter and screenwriter^[4]
• Michael Barone, television commentator, writer for The Washington Examiner, author^[5]
• Daniel J. Boorstin, American author and writer and Librarian of Congress^[6]
• Irin Carmon, reporter for MSNBC^[7]
• Sewell Chan, journalist for The New York Times
• Susan Chira, author, foreign editor of The New York Times^[8]
• Nicholas Ciarelli, founder and editor of Think Secret and founder of BookBub^[9]
• Adam Clymer, author, journalist for The New York Times^[10]
• Jonathan Cohn, author, journalist for The New Republic^[11]
• Richard Connell, author^[12]
• Jim Cramer, host of CNBC's Mad Money^[13]
• Michael Crichton, author^[14]
• E.J. Dionne, Jr., columnist for The Washington Post^[15]
• Ross Douthat, columnist for The New York Times^[16]
• Ethan Drogin, writer for Suits and Lie to Me^[17]
• Esther Dyson, digital technology analyst, author^[15]
• Daniel Ellsberg, author, released the Pentagon Papers^[18]
• David Fahrenthold, political reporter for The Washington Post^[19]
• James Fallows, journalist^[15]
• Susan Faludi, author^[20]
• David Frankel, filmmaker^[21]
• Jennifer Frey, sports reporter for The New York Times and The Washington Post^[22]
• Otto Fuerbringer, former editor of Time^[23]
• V.V. Ganeshananthan, author and journalist
• George Goodman, a.k.a. "Adam Smith," hosted the Emmy award-winning program Adam Smith's Money World on PBS^[24]
• Donald E. Graham, CEO and chairman of The Washington Post Co.^[25]
• Linda Greenhouse, journalist for The New York Times^[26]
• David Halberstam, author^[15]
• Hendrik Hertzberg, journalist for The New Yorker^[27]
• David Ignatius, columnist for The Washington Post^[15]
• Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr., publisher and CEO of The Washington Post^[25]
• Joseph Kahn, Managing Editor of The New York Times^[28][29]
• Peter Kaplan, former editor-in-chief of The New York Observer, current creative director of Condé Nast Traveler
• Mickey Kaus, journalist and political blogger^[30]
• Mary Louise Kelly, co-host of NPR's All Things Considered^[31]
• Michael Kinsley, journalist, founding editor of Slate magazine^[15]
• Nicholas D. Kristof, columnist for The New York Times^[32]
• Charles Lane, former editor of The New Republic^[33]
• Jennifer 8. Lee, journalist for The New York Times^[34]
• Nicholas Lemann, dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism^[35]
• Jessica Lessin, founder of The Information
• Anthony Lewis, author and former columnist for The New York Times^[36]
• Arthur Lubow, journalist
• J. Anthony Lukas, author and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist^[15]
• Michael Maccoby, New York Times best-selling author and psychoanalyst
• Seth Mnookin, author of Hard News^[37]
• Noah Oppenheim, president of NBC News^[38]
• Alexandra Petri, comedy writer for The Washington Post^[39]
• Frank Rich, columnist for The New York Times^[40]
• Steven V. Roberts, former reporter for The New York Times, television journalist^[41]
• Scott Rosenberg, co-founder of Salon.com^[42]
• Yair Rosenberg, writer for Tablet Magazine^[43]
• Jack Rosenthal, journalist for The New York Times and president of The New York Times Company Foundation^[44][45]
• David Sanger, journalist for The New York Times^[46]
• Charlie Savage, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist for The New York Times^[47]
• Nell Scovell, creator of Sabrina the Teenage Witch and co-author of Lean In^[48]
• Robert Ellis Smith, noted journalist and creator of the Privacy Journal^[49]
• Whit Stillman, filmmaker^[50]
• Ira Stoll, New York Sun executive
• Katrina Szish, television personality^[51]
• Evan Thomas, associate managing editor of Newsweek^[52]
• Jeffrey Toobin, senior legal analyst for CNN^[32]
• Pablo S. Torre, ESPN writer and television personality^[53]
• Craig Unger, author and journalist
• George Weller, novelist, playwright, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist for The New York Times and The Chicago Daily News^[54]
• Mark Whitaker, senior vice president of NBC News, former editor of Newsweek^[55]
• Elizabeth Wurtzel, author^[56]
• Jeff Zucker, former president and CEO of NBC Universal^[57] Now head of CNN.

Business

• George Abrams, lawyer and businessman^[58]
• Steve Ballmer, former CEO of Microsoft and owner of the Los Angeles Clippers^[59]
• Hayley Barna, co-founder of Birchbox^[60]
• Nathan Blecharczyk, co-founder of Airbnb
• Charlie Cheever, co-founder of Quora^[61]
• Parker Conrad, founder of Zenefits^[62]
• Robert Decherd, CEO of A. H. Belo Corporation^[63][64]
• Jennifer Hyman, co-founder of Rent The Runway^[65]
• Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services^[66][67]
• James S. Marcus, investment banker and philanthropist^[68]

Academia

• Stephen Barnett (1935–2009), legal scholar at University of California, Berkeley School of Law who opposed the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970^[69]
• Geoffrey Cowan, professor at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism^[70]
• Peter Kramer, psychiatrist, author^[15]
• Thomas Samuel Kuhn, philosopher and historian of science
• Charles S. Maier, professor of history at Harvard^[71]
• Eric Nelson, professor of government at Harvard^[72]

Government and politics

• Tony Blinken, Deputy Secretary of State during the Obama Administration^[73]
• Richard Blumenthal, Senator from Connecticut^[74][75]
• Blair Clark, manager of Eugene McCarthy's 1968 presidential campaign^[76]
• James Bryant Conant, President of Harvard University from 1933-1953^[77]
• Tom Cotton, Senator from Arkansas^[78][79]
• Brian Fallon, press secretary for Hillary Clinton during her 2016 presidential campaign^[80][81]
• Frederick Vanderbilt Field, socialist activist^[82]
• James Glassman, journalist, diplomat, and director of the George W. Bush Institute^[83][84]
• C. Boyden Gray, Committee for Justice chairman and White House Counsel to President George H. W. Bush^[85]
• Caroline Kennedy, U.S. ambassador to Japan and daughter of U.S. President John F. Kennedy^[86]
• John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States^[14][87]
• Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform^[88]
• Mark Penn, chief political strategist for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign^[89]
• Gina Raimondo, Governor of Rhode Island^[90]
• Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States^[14]
• Elise Stefanik, Representative from New York^[91]
• Paul Sweezy, Marxist economist and funder of the Monthly Review^[92]
• Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan^[93]

Law

• David Barron, circuit judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
• David Bruck, capital defense attorney
• Paul A. Engelmayer, circuit judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York^[94]
• Garrett Epps, author and law school professor
• Merrick Garland, Circuit Judge and former Supreme Court nominee^[95]
• Melissa Hart, justice on the Colorado Supreme Court^[96]

Other

• Mark Gearan, former Peace Corps director^[97]
• Jon Ledecky, owner of the New York Islanders^[98][99]
• Bill McKibben, environmentalist, author^[100]
• David Stearns, general manager of the Milwaukee Brewers^[101]
• Andrew Weil, alternative medicine advocate^[102]

References