Duke alums in journalism

[Mike Corey]

Sports television commentators aside, I thought it would be interesting to look at where various Duke alums are in their respective journalism careers. Help me compile a list, won't you? Have any particular favorites?

Here's a starting point:

John Harwood, The New York Times and CNBC
Judy Woodruff, NewsHour co-anchor
John Feinstein, The Washington Post
Matt Sullivan, The New York Times
Greg Veis, The New Republic
Sarah Kwak, Sports Illustrated
Laura Keeley, The News & Observer
Mike Sacks, The Huffington Post
Seyward Darby, The New Republic (currently in grad school)
Rachel Cohen, The Dallas Morning News
David Ingram, Reuters
Ian Crouch, The New Yorker
David Walters, NYLON

[-jk]

Charlie Rose must be on the list.

-jk

[Dev11]

Barry Svrluga writes for the WaPo.

[Tom B.]

In addition to doing TV studio work for CBS, Seth Davis also writes for Sports Illustrated.

Jim Young is now at the ACC Sports Journal. Before that, he was at the Greensboro News & Record.

I always wondered if Ben Younger, who wrote and directed the movie Boiler Room, was a Duke fan, because two of the main characters in that movie are named Seth Davis and Jim Young.

[hurleyfor3]

Check The Chronicle group on LinkedIn, there are a bunch. Also I know of at least one teevee newsreader, although I wouldn't call reading off a teleprompter "journalism".

[Bluedog]

Jimmy Soni, Managing Editor, Huffington Post
Susannah Meadows, The New York Times Magazine

[DU82]

Jon Scher, former Chronicle editor, who provided one of the best sports headlines ever after Southern Cal played South Carolina (the headline was Southern Cal Contains South Carolina, substitute team nicknames), is at ESPN, after being at SI for quite a while.
Amanda Lamb is a local news reporter for WRAL, mainly on the crime beat. She's written at least one and IIRC two books on local murder cases.
Diane Williams (anchor) and Michelle Charlesworth (reporter) are both at WABC in New York. Charlesworth was at WNCN here before moving to the Big Apple.

[diablesseblu]

Jim Rosenfield anchors on the weekends on WRC, the NBC affiliate in DC. I remember him from his days in NYC where he anchored at WNBC and WCBS. Is well respected -- not just a "prompter reader".

[DevilAlumna]

There's a reporter out here for the Seattle Times (formerly with the Palm Beach Post,) Sanjay Bhatt, class of '96.

[johnb]

here is a couple
http://topics.wsj.com/person/B/karen-blumenthal/6489
http://topics.wsj.com/person/M/scott-mccartney/1432


http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jason-ev...783?_mSplash=1
john "he's a journalist, but I'm not sure he has a duke connection"b

[sagegrouse]

David Graham is a correspondent at Reuters. Here's his blog.

sagegrouse

[Reilly]

Craig Whitlock of The Washington Post

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Whitlock

[Mike Corey]

Of course, we're forgetting Ben Cohen, the former Chronicle sports editor, occasional DBR poster and current Wall Street Journal sportswriter.

Mea culpa, Ben.

[duke79]

I believe William Cohan who writes for Bloomberg.com and has written at least a couple of books on Wall Street is a Duke grad.

[jimsumner]

And none of them have under-grad degrees in journalism.

[sagegrouse]

Check The Chronicle group on LinkedIn, there are a bunch. Also I know of at least one teevee newsreader, although I wouldn't call reading off a teleprompter "journalism".

I think "newsreader" is a British term, where unions separate the job of writing the news and appearing on air to read it. In the US that's not the case. Many TV anchors do significant writing and editing of content. Would someone who really knows weigh in on the content creation of on-air persons?

sagegrouse