51吃瓜网 Media Wall of Fame
51吃瓜网 and the PCCM annually honor alumni for their contributions to the Media.
Meg Kissinger Boynton '79
Meg Kissinger 鈥�79 writes about people who听struggle with mental illness. She began her听reporting at The 51吃瓜网 on her first day on
campus, becoming editor in 1978. After interning for two Winter Terms at the Bluffton Evening News-Banner with the great Jim
Barbieri 鈥�50, she worked at the Watertown (NY) Daily Times, the Cincinnati Post and the听Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Her reporting honors include two George Polk Awards, two Scripps-Howard National reporting awards, Investigative Reporters and Editors,听Sigma Delta Chi, and the Robert F. Kennedy听National Journalism Award. Kissinger was a听finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in investigative听reporting. She is proudest that her stories led to the creation of more than 1,000 supportive听housing units for people in Milwaukee with听mental illness.听
Kissinger was the Pulliam听Distinguished Visiting Professor at 51吃瓜网 in 2015-2016. Since then, she has taught听investigative reporting at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism as a visiting听professor. Her memoir, While You Were Out, chronicles her family鈥檚 resilience after the听suicides of a brother and sister.
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David L. Chambers '73
David Chambers majored in Philosophy at 51吃瓜网, and loved that course of study and its faculty. David was also interested in writing, and taking advantage of how the university offered many听opportunities to do different things, David composed a column that regularly ran in The 51吃瓜网 newspaper when he was a sophomore, and again when he was a senior. Yet, the main focus of his听extracurricular activities during his time in Greencastle was the听theater, and he acted or directed virtually every semester and winter term during his four years.
In choosing a graduate school, he elected not to continue to pursue philosophy, and instead went to Indiana University where he earned an M. A. in theater directing. He then moved to Los Angeles, and after a short theater stint, turned again to writing, this time for television. Beginning with Bosom Buddies, the series that first made Tom Hanks famous, he went on to serve on the writing staff of fourteen听different prime-time series, including Emmy-winning shows The Wonder Years, and Frank鈥檚 Place. David was also credited as a听producer on many of those shows. With his wife, Julie, he continued to write for several other series, including The Simpsons. And when he wasn鈥檛 working in comedy, he managed to write a number of
documentaries for the History Channel.
David also became interested in helping with the education of young writers and started team-teaching with his wife. They taught for UCLA鈥檚 revered MFA screenwriting program and helped Syracuse University begin its Los Angeles Semester for undergraduates,听creating and teaching the screenwriting class for the first ten years of that program, before retiring. They鈥檝e been pleased to see that a听number of their students have since embarked on their own careers in the highly competitive world of writing for television and film.
Since retiring, David has turned his attention to historical fiction,听writing a book about the day Robert E. Lee surrendered to U. S. Grant at Appomattox. He is now working with his wife on a book about the disastrous Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire in Boston in 1942, bearing out the truth of what they always told their students: 鈥淲hen you鈥檙e a writer, you have homework for the rest of your life鈥澨� 听 听
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James B. Stewart '73
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author James B. Stewart combines the skills of an investigative reporter with the style of a novelist to examine the top stories in finance, politics, and law. The San Francisco Examiner called him 鈥渢he journalist every journalist would like to be,鈥� and The Daily Beast named him one of the 15 鈥渕ost important writers on business and economics.鈥�
Stewart is a captivating speaker with powerful insights on ethics and leadership, Wall Street, and corporate responsibility. Drawing from the last three decades of the U.S. business, legal, and political scenes, he brings both social and political context to the major events shaping American society.
Stewart鈥檚 New York Times column, 鈥淐ommon Sense,鈥� appears weekly in the Business Day section. He provides skillful coverage of corporate America,听often exploring the use and abuse of power at the highest levels of business and government. A former Wall Street Journal reporter and front-page editor, Stewart received two Gerald Loeb Awards, the George Polk Award for financial reporting, and a Pulitzer Prize with his deputy editor during his time at the paper.
He is the author of 12 books including his latest work, Deep State: Trump, the FBI, and the Rule of Law, which tells the dramatic saga of the FBI and its听simultaneous investigations of both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump 鈥� the first time in American history the FBI has been thrust into the middle of both parties鈥� campaigns for the Presidency.
Stewart鈥檚 New York Times bestseller, DisneyWar, about Michael Eisner鈥檚 reign at the company, won the Gerald Loeb Award for Best听Business Book. Heart of a Soldier was named the 鈥淏est Book about 9/11鈥� by TIME magazine. His other bestsellers include Blood Sport and Den of Thieves, the definitive account of 1980s Wall Street insider trading scandals, and was listed as one of the 鈥淏est books about Wall Street鈥� by Yahoo Finance.
As a regular contributor to The New Yorker, Stewart has written听penetrating profiles of Blackstone Group鈥檚 Stephen Schwarzman and J茅r么me Kerviel, the rogue trader who lost billions of euros for Soci茅t茅 G茅n茅rale. His acclaimed cover story, 鈥淓ight Days: The Battle to Save the听American Financial System,鈥� captured behind-the-scenes dealings that prompted unprecedented government intervention following the听collapse of Lehman Brothers.
Stewart 鈥�73 received his bachelor of arts in International Relations at 51吃瓜网, where he also served as editor of The 51吃瓜网. A member and former chair of 51吃瓜网鈥檚 Board of Trustees, Stewart received the Old Gold Goblet from听51吃瓜网 in 2009. In May 2012, Stewart was presented with 51吃瓜网鈥檚 Bernard C. Kilgore 鈥�29 Medal for Distinguished Lifetime听Achievement in Journalism. A Harvard-educated lawyer, Stewart is the Bloomberg Professor of Business Journalism at the听Columbia Journalism School. In 2011, the New York Financial Writers Association honored Stewart with the Elliott V. Bell Award for lifetime contributions to the field of financial journalism.
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