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

Mary Kimbrough, 1992 St. Louis Media Person of the Year and the first woman to receive the honor, began her career at the Tulsa Tribune after doing graduate work at the University of Oklahoma. In the early 1940s, she went to work for the St. Louis Star times and Eventually became its women’s page editor. … Continued