Journalism and Letters
- Julia Allison (1999) is a media personality, journalist, and blogger.
- Elizabeth Brackett (1959) is a news correspondent (Chicago Tonight, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer).
- Ann Compton (1965), television news reporter, spending most of her career with ABC News as their Washington or White House correspondent.
- Chet Coppock (1966), sportscaster best known for his work on radio.
- Brian D'Amato (1976) is a novelist and sculptor
- Alan Goldsher (1984), novelist, ghostwriter
- Walter Jacobson (1955), television news personality (1963–2006), spending most of his career at WBBM-TV and WFLD.
- Geoffrey A. Landis (1973), engineer and Hugo and Nebula Award winning science fiction author.
- Archibald MacLeish (did not graduate) writer who twice won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1933 & 1953), and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1959 for his play J.B..
- Nell Minow (1970), film critic and author in the field of corporate governance.
- Stephen Moore (1978) economist and journalist, Wall Street Journal Editorial Board; Contributing Editor, National Review.
- Henry H. Neff (1991) is an author and illustrator.
- Juliet Law Packer (1970), television writer, poet
- Ian Punnett (1978), radio personality and writer
- Sarah Ruhl (1992) is a playwright (Eurydice, The Clean House). In 2006, she was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.
- Sheldon Siegel (1976) is an attorney and bestselling author.
- Thomas A. Stewart (1966) is a business journalist and editor (former editor of Harvard Business Review, member of the board of editors of Fortune, author of the books Intellectual Capital (1997) and The Wealth of Knowledge (2002), and former editor-in-chief of Atheneum Publishers.
- John Stossel (1965) is an author and Emmy Award–winning investigative journalist for ABC News, long associated with the news program 20/20.
- Penelope Trunk (1985) is an author, blogger, and serial entrepreneur.
- Scott Turow (1966) is a lawyer and author (Presumed Innocent, The Burden of Proof, Personal Injuries).
- Max Rice (2010) is a political correspondant for Fox & Friends.
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