List of American journalists

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[edit] 19th-century print journalists

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.

[edit] 20th-century print journalists

Samuel Hopkins Adams (1871–1958) - American investigative journalist
Trezzvant Anderson (1906-1963) journalist for African-American press, covered civil rights movement
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)
Ben Bradlee, editor of the Washington Post at the time of the Watergate scandal
C.P. Connolly (1863-1935) radical American investigative journalist associated for many years with Collier's Weekly.
Paul Foot (1938-2004)
Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998) war correspondent
Emily Hahn (1905-1997) - wrote extensively on China
Pauline Kael (1919-2001) - Film critic for The New Yorker
A.J. Liebling (1904-1963) American journalist closely associated with The New Yorker
Walter Lippmann (1889-1974)
Jonathan Meades
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) - essayist, critic, and editor of The Baltimore Sun.
George Orwell (1903-1950) - reported on poverty, misery, and the Spanish Civil War
Robert Palmer (1945-1997) - first full-time, chief pop music critic for The New York Times, Rolling Stone contributing editor
Edward Said (1935-2003) - essayist, Palestinan-American activist
James ("Scotty") Reston (1909-1995) - political commentator for the New York Times
Harrison Salisbury, first regular New York Times correspondent in Moscow after World War Two
George Seldes (1890-1995) - American journalist, editor and publisher of In Fact.
Randy Shilts - reporter for The Advocate and San Francisco Chronicle.
Agnes Smedley (--6 May 1950) journalist and writer known for her chronicling of the Chinese revolution.
Edgar Snow, pro-communist journalist and writer, chronicled the Chinese revolution
I.F. Stone (1907-1989), investigative journalist, publisher of I.F. Stone's Weekly
Anna Louise Strong, pro-communist journalist and writer
Walter Winchell (1897-1972), American political columnist, radio broadcaster