Class of: 1978

Bill Pennington

Bill Pennington (COM’78) of Warwick, N.Y., retired from the New York Times in September 2022. Bill spent 45 years in the newspaper industry, and 25 as a sports reporter. He was a 10-time winner and 20-time finalist of the Associated Press Sports Editors’ national writing award and has published five books, including the Times bestseller Billy Martin: Baseball’s Flawed Genius (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015). Bill plans to freelance for the Times and other publications.

From the Winter-Spring 2023 issue.