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

• Martha E. Cram Bates (1839–1905) – American writer, journalist, newspaper editor; co-organizer/president of the Michigan Woman's Press Association; associate editor of the Grand Traverse Herald; writer for the Evening Record and the Detroit Tribune; oldest, continuous, newspaper correspondent in Michigan
• Philip Alexander Bell (1808–1886) – abolitionist; founder and editor of The Colored American, The Pacific Appeal, and The San Francisco Elevator
• Susan E. Dickinson (1842–1915) – Civil War correspondent, noted for her articles about the coal mining industry, suffrage, and women's rights
• Barbara Galpin (1855–1922) – American journalist; affiliated for 25 years with the Somerville Journal, serving as compositor, proof reader, cashier, editor woman's page and assistant manager
• William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1809) – editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator
• Horace Greeley (1811–1872) – newspaper editor, founder of the New York Tribune, reformer, politician, opponent of slavery
• Eliza Trask Hill (1840–1908) – American activist, journalist, philanthropist; founder, editor, Woman's Voice and Public School Champion, an organ of the Protestant Independent Women Voters
• 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"
• John Neal (1793–1876) – American activist, novelist, short story writer, poet, critic, and magazine and newspaper essayist and editor
• Anne Newport Royall (1769–1854) – first female journalist in the United States; first woman to interview a president; publisher and editor for Paul Pry (1831–1836) and The Huntress (1836–54) in Washington, D.C.
• Rowena Granice Steele (1824–1901) – American performer, author, newspaper journalist, editor, publisher; contributor to The Golden Era, co-founder of The Pioneer , assistant editor of the San Joaquin Valley Argus, editor and proprietor of the Budget
• Henry James Ten Eyck (1856–1887) – editor of Albany Evening Journal.
• Jeannette Walworth (pen names, "Mother Goose" and "Ann Atom"; 1835–1918) — American journalist, novelist; contributor to The Continent and The Commercial Appeal
• Ida B. Wells (1862–1931) – American investigative journalist and reformer, noted for investigating lynching in the United States
• Rosa Louise Woodberry (1869–1932) – American journalist, educator; on staff with The Augusta Chronicle and the Savannah Press

19th-century and 20th-century print journalists

• Arthur William à Beckett (1844–1909) – English journalist and intellectual
• Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914?) – American editor, columnist, and journalist
• Marion Howard Brazier (1850–1935) – American journalist, editor, author, and clubwoman; society editor of The Boston Post (1890–98) and The Boston Journal (1903-11); edited and published the Patriotic Review (1898-1900)
• 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
• Mary G. Charlton Edholm (1854–1935) – American reformer, journalist; World's Superintendent of press work, Woman's Christian Temperance Union; secretary for the International Federation Women's Press League; contributor, New York World, the Chicago Tribune, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Republican, Chicago Inter Ocean, the Union Signal, the New York Voice, Woman's Journal, The Woman's Tribune, and the California Illustrated Magazine; editor, The Christian Home
• Jeannette Leonard Gilder (pen name, "Brunswick"; 1849–1916) – American author, journalist, critic, editor; regular correspondent and literary critic, Chicago Tribune; correspondent, Boston Saturday Evening Gazette, Boston Transcript, Philadelphia Record and Press; owner and editor, The Reader: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine; Newark reporter, New York Tribune; editorial department, Morning Register; literary editor, Scribner's Monthly; drama and music critic, New York Herald; co-founder, The Critic
• Eva Kinney Griffith (1852–1918) – American journalist, temperance activist, novelist, newspaper editor, journal publisher; contributor, Temperance Banner, the Union Signal, and Woman's News; publisher, True Ideal; special writer, Daily News Record; society editor, Chicago Times
• Lillian A. Lewis (1861-?) – first African-American woman journalist in Boston
• Estelle M. H. Merrill (pen name, "Jean Kincaid"; 1858–1908) – American journalist, editor; charter member of the New England Woman's Press Association, contributor to the Boston Transcript, staff on The Boston Globe, co-editor of American Motherhood,
• S. Isadore Miner (1863–1916; pen name, "Pauline Periwinkle") – American journalist, poet, teacher, feminist; first corresponding secretary of the Michigan Woman's Press Association; staff member of Good Health; founder, editor of the "Woman's Century" page of The Dallas Morning News
• Grace Carew Sheldon (1855–1921) – American journalist, author, editor, businesswoman; staff and special correspondent of the Buffalo Courier; department editor of the Buffalo Times
• 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 (1925–2019) – 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 (1930–2017) – 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
• Linda Deutsch (born 1943) – American Associated Press court journalist
• Roger Ebert (1942–2013) – Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago film critic
• Jack Fuller (1946–2016) – editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune
• Martha Gellhorn (1908–1998) – war correspondent
• Bob Greene (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–) – freelance journalist, book editor, biographer and novelist
• Hugh Hefner (1926–2017) – founder and editor of Playboy
• Hedda Hopper (1885–1966) – syndicated gossip columnist
• Molly Ivins (1944–2007) – Texas-based syndicated columnist
• Dorothy Misener Jurney (1909–2002) – influential journalist covering women's issues on women's pages
• Pauline Kael (1919–2001) – film critic for The New Yorker
• K. Connie Kang (1942–2019) – first female Korean American journalist, wrote for Los Angeles Times
• 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; 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
• Eva Anne Madden (1863–1958), American educator, journalist, playwright, author
• 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
• George McElroy (1922–2006) – first black reporter for the Houston Post and first minority columnist of any newspaper in Houston
• 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; 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 West Virginia, 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
• Patricia Raybon – published in The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, USA Today and Chicago Tribune
• 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 II
• 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
• Roger Simon (1948–) – journalist and author
• Agnes Smedley (1892–1950) – journalist and writer known for her chronicling of the Chinese revolution
• Drue Smith (?–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
• Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961 – journalist and radio broadcaster. In 1939 she was recognized by Time magazine as the second most influential woman in America after Eleanor Roosevelt. Regarded as the "First Lady of American Journalism."
• 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
• Charles A. Windle (1866–1934) – anti-prohibitionist, editor of Iconoclast
• Alexander Woollcott (1887–1943) – New York drama critic

21st-century print journalists

• Cecilia Ballí (born 1974), covers Mexican border
• Santo Biasatti
• Katya Cengel
• 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
• Jens Erik Gould
• Jorge Lanata
• John Leland
• Joshua Lyon
• Steve Mirsky — columnist for Scientific American
• María Laura Santillán
• Eric Schlosser
• Paul Spencer Sochaczewski — writer, writing coach, conservationist and communications advisor to international non-governmental organizations
• Jackie Summers — food writer
• Kaitlyn Vincie
• David Warsh — Gerald Loeb Award-winning journalist, published in both print and non-print media
• Amy Westervelt (born 1978)
• Brian Williams

See also

• History of American newspapers
• History of journalism
• American Journalism Historians Association
• Media bias in the United States
• Irish American journalism

Further reading

Main article: History of American journalism § Further reading

• Applegate, Edd. Advocacy journalists: A biographical dictionary of writers and editors (Scarecrow Press, 2009).
• Ashley, Perry J. American newspaper journalists: 1690-1872 (Gale, 1985; Dictionary of literary biography, vol. 43)
• Mckerns, Joseph. Biographical Dictionary of American Journalism (1989)
• Paneth, Donald. Encyclopedia of American Journalism (1983)
• Vaughn, Stephen L., ed. Encyclopedia of American Journalism (2007)