List of American print journalists
This is a list of selected American print journalists, including some of the more notable figures of 20th-century newspaper and magazine journalism.
19th-century print journalists
- Horace Greeley (1811–1872) – newspaper editor, founder of the New York Tribune, reformer, politician, opponent of slavery
- Thomas Nast (1840–1902) – German-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist' the scourge of Boss Tweed and the Tammany Hall machine' considered to be the "father of the American cartoon"
- Anne Newport Royall (1769–1854) – first female journalist in the U.S.; first woman to interview a president; publisher and editor for Paul Pry (1831–36) and The Huntress (1836–54) in Washington, D.C.
19th-century and 20th-century print journalists
- Arthur William à Beckett (1844-1909) – English journalist and intellectual.
- Richard Harding Davis (1864–1916) – reporter since 1880s; first American correspondent to cover the Spanish–American War (1898), the Second Boer War (1899–1902), the Russo-Japanese War (1904–05) and the 1914–16 stages of World War I
20th-century print journalists
- Al Abrams (1904-1977) - sportswriter, columnist and editor for The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- Jack Anderson (1922-2005) - syndicated political columnist
- Paul Y. Anderson (1893-1938) - investigative journalist, winner of Pulitzer Prize 1929
- Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) - known for book on Eichmann trial
- Russell Baker (1925-present) - newspaper and magazine essayist
- Robert Benchley (1889-1945) - newspaper and magazine humorist
- Les Biederman (1907-1981) - sportswriter, columnist and editor for Pittsburgh Press
- Edna Lee Booker - foreign correspondent in China during the 1930s and 1940s
- Croswell Bowen (1905-1971) - reporter for PM Magazine and The New Yorker during the 1940s and 1950s
- Ben Bradlee (1921-2014) - editor of the Washington Post at the time of the Watergate scandal
- Jimmy Breslin (1930-present) - New York columnist
- Heywood Broun (1888-1939) - columnist and guild organizer
- Helen Gurley Brown (1922-2012) - editor of Cosmopolitan magazine
- Art Buchwald (1925-2007) - syndicated columnist and humorist
- William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925-2008) - founder and editor of The National Review
- Herb Caen (1916-1997) - San Francisco columnist
- C. P. Connolly (1863-1935) - radical investigative journalist associated for many years with Collier's Weekly
- Roger Ebert (1942-2013) - Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago film critic
- Jack Fuller (1946-present) - editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune
- Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998) - war correspondent
- Bob Greene (born 1947) - American journalist
- Emily Hahn (1905-1997) - wrote extensively on China
- David Halberstam (1934-2007) - foreign correspondent, political and sport journalist
- Arnold Hano (1922-present) - freelance journalist, book editor, biographer and novelist
- Hugh Hefner (1926-present) - founder and editor of Playboy
- Hedda Hopper (1885-1966) - syndicated gossip columnist
- Molly Ivins (1944-2007) - Texas-based syndicated columnist
- Pauline Kael (1919-2001) - film critic for The New Yorker
- James J. Kilpatrick (1920-2010) - syndicated political columnist
- Irv Kupcinet (1912-2003) - syndicated columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times
- Ring Lardner (1885-1933) - sportswriter and short-story writer
- Frances Lewine (1921-2008) - Associated Press White House correspondent and president of the Women's National Press Club
- A. J. Liebling (1904-1963) - journalist closely associated with The New Yorker
- Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) - Washington, D.C. political columnist
- George McElroy (1922-2006) - first black reporter for the Houston Post and first minority columnist of any newspaper in Houston
- Ray Marcano - medical reporter and music critic
- Ralph G. Martin (1920-2013) - combat correspondent for Armed Forces newspaper Stars and Stripes and Army weekly magazine Yank; wrote for Newsweek and The New Republic
- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) - essayist, critic, and editor of The Baltimore Sun
- Jim Murray (1919-1998) - Los Angeles sports columnist
- Eldora Marie Bolyard Nuzum (1926-2004) - first female editor of a daily newspaper in WV, journalist, interviewer of U.S. Presidents
- Robert Palmer (1945-1997) - first full-time, chief pop music critic for The New York Times, Rolling Stone contributing editor
- Louella Parsons (1881-1972) - syndicated gossip columnist
- Drew Pearson (1897-1969) - Washington political columnist
- George Plimpton (1927-2003) - magazine journalist and editor of Paris Review
- Shirley Povich (1905-1998) - sportswriter for The Washington Post
- Ernie Pyle (1900-1945) - Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent
- James ("Scotty") Reston (1909-1995) - political commentator for the New York Times
- Grantland Rice (1880-1954) - sportswriter
- Mike Royko (1932-1997) - Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago columnist
- Damon Runyon (1880-1941) - newspaper journalist and essayist
- Harrison Salisbury (1908-1993) - first regular New York Times correspondent in Moscow after World War Two
- E. W. Scripps (1854-1926) - founder of the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain
- George Seldes (1890-1995) - journalist, editor and publisher of In Fact
- Randy Shilts (1951-1994) - reporter for The Advocate and San Francisco Chronicle
- Hugh Sidey (1927-2005) - political writer for Life and Time magazines
- Agnes Smedley (1892-1950) - journalist and writer known for her chronicling of the Chinese revolution
- Drue Smith (Unknown-2001) – print and broadcast journalist
- Red Smith (1905-1982) - New York sports columnist
- Edgar Snow (1905-1972) - journalist and writer, chronicled the Chinese revolution, especially in Red Star Over China
- I.F. Stone (1907-1989) - investigative journalist, publisher of I.F. Stone's Weekly
- Anna Louise Strong (1885-1970) - pro-communist journalist and writer
- Helen Thomas (1920-2013) - White House correspondent for United Press International
- Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005) - creator of Gonzo journalism
- Theodore White (1915-1986) - reporter for Time magazine in China, 1939–1944, author of Making of the President
- Earl Wilson (1907-1987) - syndicated gossip columnist
- Walter Winchell (1897-1972) - columnist and radio broadcaster
- Alexander Woollcott (1887-1943) - New York drama critic
21st-century print journalists
- Charles Duhigg
- Lloyd Grove - gossip columnist for the New York Daily News
- Maria Hall-Brown
- Jorge Lanata
- Paul Spencer Sochaczewski - writer, writing coach, conservationist and communications advisor to international non-governmental organizations
- David Warsh - Gerald Loeb Award-winning journalist, published in both print and non-print media
- Brian Williams
See also
Further reading
Main article: History of American journalism § Further reading
- Mckerns, Joseph. Biographical Dictionary of American Journalism (1989)
- Paneth, Donald. Encyclopedia of American Journalism (1983)
- Vaughn, Stephen L., ed. Encyclopedia of American Journalism (2007)
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