Alan C. Miller - '72

Alan C. Miller is the founder of the News Literacy Project, the leading provider of news literacy education in the country. He helped launch the field of news literacy when he started NLP in 2008. NLP’s award-winning nonpartisan resources are being used in all 50 states. After more than 14 years leading the organization, Alan relinquished the CEO role in July 2022 but remains active with NLP. He previously had a distinguished journalism career at The Times Union in Albany, NY, The Record in Hackensack, NJ, and the Los Angeles Times, where he worked for 21 years, primarily in the paper’s Washington bureau. He received more than a dozen national reporting honors, including the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series on the dangers of the Marine Corps’ Harrier attack jet. His reports on illegal contributions from foreign nationals to the Democratic National Committee in 1996 won the George Polk Award, the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and the Investigative Reporters and Editors Medal. In June, during the East-West Center’s International Media Conference, Alan received its award for Journalists of Courage and Impact, which "recognizes the contributions of exceptional journalists from across the Asia-Pacific region." He also won the 2022 EWC Distinguished Alumni Award from the Center and the 2022 AARP Purpose Prize, and was named one of the 2020 Washingtonians of the Year. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, Alan received a master’s degree in political science from the University of Hawaii. Inducted 2024

Class Year

1972