Oscar Stauffer, editor and publisher of the Topeka State Journal and the Topeka Daily Capital, has had a distinctive career since his first reporting assignment on the Emporia Gazette in 1906. Prior to his election as chairman of the board of Stauffer Publications, Inc., in 1969, Stauffer worked as a reporter on the Kansas city … Continued

Myron Kandel pioneered financial news on television, serving as CNN’s founding financial editor and economic commentator for 25 years. In 2000, TJFR, a media industry publication, named him one of the 10 most influential financial journalists of the 20th century. He previously served as the financial editor of the Washington Star, the New York Herald … Continued

Nancy Hicks Maynard, the deputy publisher of the Oakland Tribune, began her career in journalism at the New York Post after graduating cum laude from Long Island University. She moved to The New York Times a year later, first as a reporter and then as a Washington correspondent. She spent most of 1978 as a … Continued

Molly Ivins, a columnist with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, began her career with the Houston chronicle after graduating from Smith college and Columbia University. During her tenure as the co-editor of the Texas Observer, Ivins rocked the Texas political arena with her coverage of the state legislature. After serving three years as the Rocky Mountain … Continued

Mustafa Amin, founder of Akhbar al Yom and Al Akhbar of Cairo, Egypt, has been a journalism pioneer in the Arab world for the past 50 years. The consequences of his innovations, however, were a half-century of political persecution and nine years imprisonment. Amin, who introduced into Egypt Western-style journalism, began his career in 1928 … Continued