commentator, SOC/BA Rick Leventhal – former Fox News Channel senior correspondent, SOC/BA '86 Louis Lomax – first African American television journalist, CAS/MA '44 Barry McCaffrey – NBC News and MSNBC military analyst; drug czar under President Bill Clinton; retired US Army General Ayman Mohyeldin – correspondent for Al Jazeera English Asra Nomani – Indian-American Muslim journalist, author and feminist, '90 Tony Perkins – weatherman for WTTG in Washington, D.C., SOC/BA '81 Nicole Petallides – Fox Business Network anchor and correspondent, SOC '93 Peter Plantec – contributing editor to StudioDaily.com New York and VFXWorld.com Hollywood Emily Rooney – executive producer, ABC News' World News Tonight with Peter Jennings Jeffrey St. Clair – editor of CounterPunch Omar Samad – former CNN analyst, Ambassador of Afghanistan to Canada Antoine Sanfuentes – vice president and managing editor for CNN's Washington Bureau, CAS/BA '90 Steve Scully – host, political editor, and senior producer of C-SPAN's Washington Journal Tom Shales – The Washington Post TV critic; 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism recipient, SOC/BA ’67 Abbi Tatton – Internet reporter for CNN, MA Cal Thomas – panelist for Fox News Watch on Fox News Channel Desson Thomson – The Washington Post film critic, White House speechwriter for President Barack Obama, SOC/BA ’80 Rohit Vyas – first and longest serving Indian American journalist Brian Wilson – anchor reporter for Fox News, SOC/MA Tara Palmeri – Politico reporter and columnist; ABC contributor Cecilia Vega – ABC anchor and White House correspondent, SOC/BA '99. Trey Yingst – foreign correspondent for Fox News SOC/BA '16 Susan Zirinsky – CBS News president Cinema, television, radio Caroline Aaron – actress and producer Alex Albrecht – co-host of Revision3's Diggnation, former host of The Screen Savers on G4techTV Aamir Ali – Indian television actor, BA Bryan Callen – actor and comedian, original cast of comedians on the sketch comedy television series, MADtv, CAS Ruth Sacks Caplin – screenwriter of Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, master's of counseling and therapy 1977 Elizabeth Chomko, actress, director and screenwriter (What They Had), BA 2004 Bob Edwards – radio host and award-winning journalist; host of The Bob Edwards Show; former host of NPR's All Things Considered Hallie Eisenberg – the "Pepsi" Girl and actress in Paulie, SIS '14 America Ferrera – actress Jamie Fly - President and CEO of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, SIS/BA Bo Gritz – radio host; United States Army Special Forces officer during the Vietnam