WALTER LIPPMANN (1889-1974) was an American newspaper commentator and author. After graduating from Harvard, he co-founded the influential liberal magazine The New Republic in 1913. In 1931, Lippmann started writing the column "Today and Tomorrow" in the New York Herald Tribune, which was syndicated in more than 250 newspapers worldwide and earned him one of his two Pulitzer Prizes. Throughout his long career, Lippmann was highly praised and known as the "Father of Modern Journalism."