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

• 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
• 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
• 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.
• Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) – investigative journalist and reformer, noted for investigating lynching in the United States

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
• 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; 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
• 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
• 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 (born 1948-) - journalist and author
• Agnes Smedley (1892–1950) – ajournalist 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
• 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
• Eldon James – American freelance print and photo journalist
• 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

See also

• Irish 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)