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List of American print journalists

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This is a list of selected American print journalists, including some of the more notable figures of 20th-century newspaper and magazine journalism.

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19th-century print journalists

  • Susan E. Dickinson (1842–1915) – Civil War correspondent, noted for her articles about the coal mining industry, suffrage, and women's rights
  • 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) – First American correspondent to cover the Spanish–American War (1898), Second Boer War (1899–1902), Russo-Japanese War (1904–05) and the 1914–16 stages of World War I
  • Sallie Joy White (1847-1909), American journalist

    • 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
  • Jeanne Bellamy (1911–2004) – reporter and first female member of the editorial board for the Miami Herald
  • Robert Benchley (1889–1945) – newspaper and magazine humorist Marilyn Berger, (1935- ) Diplomatic correspondent, Washington Post
  • 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
  • Ruth Gruber (1911–2016) – 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
  • Ruth Montgomery (1912–2001) – first female reporter in the Washington bureau of the New York Daily News, and president of the Women's National Press Club.
  • 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

  • Santo Biasatti
  • Nelson Castro
  • Ron Chernow
  • Charles Duhigg
  • Lloyd Grove – gossip columnist for the New York Daily News
  • Maria Hall-Brown
  • Oliver Holt
  • Gwen Ifill
  • Mike Jones
  • Jorge Lanata
  • Ned Raggett
  • María Laura Santillán
  • Eric Schlosser
  • Paul Spencer Sochaczewski – writer, writing coach, conservationist and communications advisor to international non-governmental organizations
  • Kaitlyn Vincie
  • David Warsh – Gerald Loeb Award-winning journalist, published in both print and non-print media
  • Brian Williams

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