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)
- Paul Bailey (1906–1987) notable small-town owner-publisher in WWII-era California
- Ben Bradlee, editor of the Washington Post at the time of the Watergate scandal
- Amy Braunschweiger (?-?) - Journalist for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal
- 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
- Frances Lewine (1921–2008) Associated Press White House Correspondent and president of the Women's National Press Club
- 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
- Richard Preston (1954) - science writer and author of The Hot Zone
- James ("Scotty") Reston (1909–1995) - political commentator for the New York Times
- Edward Said (1935–2003) - essayist, Palestinan-American activist
- 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 (1892–1950) journalist and writer known for her chronicling of the Chinese revolution
- Edgar Snow, 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, pro-communist journalist and writer
- Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005), creator of Gonzo journalism
- Theodore White (1915–1986), American reporter for Time (magazine) in China, 1939–1944; Making of the President
- Walter Winchell (1897–1972), American political columnist, radio broadcasterseries, 1960-
[edit] 21st-century print journalists
