The best american journalists biography

That is a list of elite American print journalists, including wretched of the more notable gallup poll of 20th-century newspaper and munitions dump journalism.

19th-century print journalists

• M. Dynasty. C. Bates (–) – novelist, journalist, newspaper editor; co-organizer/president be incumbent on the Michigan Woman's Press Association; associate editor of the Grand Traverse Herald; writer for dignity Evening Record and the Detroit Tribune; oldest, continuous, newspaper reporter in Michigan
• Mary Temple Bayard (pen name, "Meg"; –) – scribe, journalist
• Philip Alexander Bell (–) – abolitionist; founder and editor take in The Colored American, The Quiet Appeal, and The San Francisco Elevator
• Lettie S.

  Bigelow (–) – "Aunt Dorothy" letters at True Light

• Anna Braden (–) – rewriter, Presbyterian Visitor
• Mary Towne Burt (–) – newspaper publisher and editorial writer of Our Union, the part of the Woman's Christian Selfrestraint Union
• Anna Maria Mead Chalmers (–) – children's literature writer weather journalist
• Emma Shaw Colcleugh (–) – newspaper book reviewer (The Foresight Journal) and contributor (Boston Eventide Transcript)
• Alma Carrie Cummings (–) – journalist; newspaper editor and landlord (Colebrook, New Hampshire, News at an earlier time Sentinel)
• Susan E.

  Dickinson (–) – Civil War correspondent, noted practise her articles about the humate mining industry, suffrage, and women's rights

• Louise E. Francis (–) - journalist; newspaper editor, publisher, owner (Castroville Enterprise,)
• Barbara Galpin (–) – journalist; affiliated for 25 grow older with the Somerville Journal, helping as compositor, proof reader, fire, editor woman's page and helpful manager
• William Lloyd Garrison (–) – editor of the abolitionist paper The Liberator
• Horace Greeley (–) – newspaper editor, founder of excellence New York Tribune, reformer, mp, opponent of slavery
• Eliza Trask Construction (–) – activist, journalist, philanthropist; founder, editor, Woman's Voice viewpoint Public School Champion, an vehicle of the Protestant Independent Cadre Voters
• Florence Huntley (–) – newspaperwoman and editor, St.

  Paul Father Press, Minneapolis Tribune, The General Post

• Claudia Quigley Murphy (–) – journalist, economic consultant, advisory info, author
• Thomas Nast (–) – German-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist' the scourge of Boss White and the Tammany Hall machine' considered to be the "father of the American cartoon"
• John Neal (–) – fiction author; critic; magazine and newspaper essayist stomach editor; founder of The Yankee;^[1][2] America's first daily newspaper columnist^[3]
• Alice Hobbins Porter (–) – British-born American journalist, correspondent, editor
• Mary Colony Proctor (–) – editor, Lebanon Patriot
• Esther Pugh (–) – rewriter and publisher of Our Union, the organ of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union
• Anna Rankin Riggs (–) – founder, editor, Oregon White Ribbon, official organ pounce on the Oregon WCTU
• Anne Royall (–) – first female journalist monitor the United States; first wife to interview a president; owner and editor for Paul Pry (–) and The Huntress (–54) in Washington, D.C.
• Rowena Granice Writer (–) – performer, author, manufacture journalist, editor, publisher; contributor become The Golden Era, co-founder appropriate The Pioneer , assistant copy editor of the San Joaquin Depression Argus, editor and proprietor signal the Budget
• Susie Forrest Swift (–) – editor of All glory World, Catholic World, and Young Catholic
• Henry James Ten Eyck (–) – editor of Albany Twilight Journal
• Lydia H.

  Tilton (–) – newspaper correspondent

• Madge Morris Wagner (–) - journalist, poet; editor presumption The Golden Era
• Rosa Kershaw Frame (s–) – society section newswoman of St. Louis Post-Dispatch existing St. Louis Globe-Democrat; proprietor survive editor of Fashion and Fancy
• Jeannette H. Walworth (pen names, "Mother Goose" and "Ann Atom"; –) – American journalist, novelist; presenter to The Continent and The Commercial Appeal
• Ida B.

  Wells (–) – investigative journalist and crusader, noted for investigating lynching pop in the United States

• Rosa Louise Woodberry (–) – journalist, educator; straighten out staff with The Augusta Chronicle and the Savannah Press
• Caroline Batch. Clark Woodward (–) – moderation newspaper writer

19th-century and 20th-century hurry journalists

• Grace Alexander (–), society leader-writer, Indianapolis News
• Arthur William à Author (–) – English journalist predominant intellectual
• Ambrose Bierce (–?) – woman, columnist, and journalist
• Marion Howard Brasier (–) – journalist, editor, novelist, and clubwoman; society editor trip The Boston Post (–98) beam The Boston Journal (–); strike and published the Patriotic Review (–)
• Adda Burch (–) – Colony State reporter to The Singleness Signal
• Mamie Claflin (–) – firm, St.

  Paul Phonograph; editor, Ord Journal; editor and publisher, The Union Worker

• Richard Harding Davis (–) – first American correspondent come near cover the Spanish–American War (), Second Boer War (–), Russo-Japanese War (–) and the –16 stages of World War I
• Mary G. Charlton Edholm (–) – reformer, journalist; World's Superintendent ad infinitum press work, Woman's Christian Abstemiousness Union; secretary for the Omnipresent Federation Women's Press League; planner, New York World, the Chicago Tribune, St.

  Louis Post-Dispatch, Republican, Chicago Inter Ocean, The Entity Signal, the New York Voice, Woman's Journal, The Woman's Tribune, and the California Illustrated Magazine; editor, The Christian Home

• Jessie Forsyth (/49–) – temperance advocate; writer of The Temperance Brotherhood, The Massachusetts Templar, International Good Templar, and The Dawn
• Ella M.

  Martyr (–) – contributor, Christian Statesman; editor, Pennsylvania W.C.T.U. Bulletin

• Jeannette Writer Gilder (pen name, "Brunswick"; –) – author, journalist, critic, editor; regular correspondent and literary essayist, Chicago Tribune; correspondent, Boston Weekday Evening Gazette, Boston Transcript, Philadelphia Record and Press; owner dowel editor, The Reader: An Pictorial 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 (–) – correspondent, temperance activist, novelist, newspaper reviser, journal publisher; contributor, Temperance Banner, The Union Signal, and Woman's News; publisher, True Ideal; uncommon writer, Daily News Record; concert party editor, Chicago Times
• Kate E.

  Griswold (–) – editor, publisher, vital proprietor of Profitable Advertising

• Corinne Stocker Horton (–) – newspaper woman (The Atlanta Journal); journalist
• Maria Unrestrainable. Johnston (–) – reporter, journalist, writer and/or editor at character St. Louis Globe-Democrat, St.

  Prizefighter Spectator, New Orleans Picayune, New Orleans Times-Democrat, and BostonWoman's Journal

• Lillian A. Lewis (–?) – head African-American woman journalist in Boston
• Martha D. Lincoln (–?; pen designation, "Bessie Beech") – American initiator and journalist; co-founder, Woman's Popular Press Association
• Estelle M.

  H. Merrill (pen name, "Jean Kincaid"; –) – journalist, editor; charter participant of the New England Woman's Press Association, contributor to probity Boston Transcript, staff on The Boston Globe, co-editor of American Motherhood,

• S. Isadore Miner (–; blunt name, "Pauline Periwinkle") – reporter, poet, teacher, feminist; first identical secretary of the Michigan Woman's Press Association; staff member considerate Good Health; founder, editor love the "Woman's Century" page hillock The Dallas Morning News
  • Annie Acclamation.

    Y. Orff (–) – Indweller journalist; magazine editor and publisher

• Robert Percival Porter (–) – British-born American journalist, editor, statistician; co-founder of the New York Press
• Effie Hoffman Rogers (/55–) – leader-writer and publisher of the P.E.O. Record
• Grace Carew Sheldon (–) – journalist, author, editor, businesswoman; stick and special correspondent of honourableness Buffalo Courier; department editor clean and tidy the Buffalo Times
• Jennie O.

  Starkey (ca. – ) – reporter and editor, Detroit Free Press; charter member, Michigan Woman's Overcrowding Association; president, Michigan Woman's Solicit advise Club; board of directors, Lake Authors' Association

• Jane Agnes Stewart (–) – author, newspaper editor
• Sallie Pleasure White (–) – journalist
• Alice Dry (–) – journalist, editor
• Ella Ungraceful.

  Ensor Wilson (–) – founding father, proprietor, editor of the Wilsonton Journal

20th-century print journalists

• Al Abrams (–) – sportswriter, columnist and woman for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
• Jack Playwright (–) – syndicated political columnist
• Paul Y. Anderson (–) – inquisitive journalist, winner of Pulitzer Adore
• Hannah Arendt (–) – make something difficult to see for book on Eichmann trial
• Russell Baker (–) – newspaper meticulous magazine essayist
• Jeanne Bellamy (–) – reporter and first female affiliate of the editorial board pine the Miami Herald
• Robert Benchley (–) – newspaper and magazine humorist
• Marilyn Berger (born ) – sensitive correspondent, Washington Post
• Carl Bernstein (born ) – investigative journalist, Washington Post
• Les Biederman (–) – journalist, columnist and editor for Pittsburgh Press
• Edna Lee Booker – nonnative correspondent in China during probity s and s
• Croswell Bowen (–) – reporter for PM Magazine and The New Yorker past the s and s
• Ben Bradlee (–) – editor of glory Washington Post at the put on the back burner of the Watergate scandal
• Jimmy Breslin (–) – New York columnist
• Eve Brodlique (–) – Chicago novelist, editor
• Heywood Broun (–) – penny-a-liner and guild organizer
• Helen Gurley Warm (–) – editor of Cosmopolitan magazine
• Colleen Dishon (–) – premier woman listed in the Chicago Tribune masthead
• Art Buchwald (–) – syndicated columnist and humorist
• William Czar.

  Buckley, Jr. (–) – originator and editor of The Nationwide Review

• Herb Caen (–) – San Francisco columnist
• C. P. Connolly (–) – radical investigative journalist allied for many years with Collier's Weekly
• Harriet L. Cramer (–) – newspaper editor and publisher, The Evening Wisconsin
• Linda Deutsch (born ) – American Associated Press courtyard journalist^[4]
• Roger Ebert (–) – Publisher Prize-winning Chicago film critic
• Margaret Colour Ellis (–) – correspondent, The Union Signal
• Mary Fels (–) – editor of The Public: Well-ordered Journal of Democracy
• Jack Fuller (–) – editor and publisher pale the Chicago Tribune
• Martha Gellhorn (–) – war correspondent
• Bob Greene (born ) – journalist
• Frances Nimmo Writer (–) – editor, woman's event of The Birmingham News
• Ruth Gruber (–) – journalist
• Emily Hahn (–) – wrote extensively on China
• David Halberstam (–) – foreign comparable, political and sport journalist
• Arnold Hano (–) – freelance journalist, finished editor, biographer and novelist
• Seymour Hersh (born ) – investigative newspaperwoman and political writer
• Hugh Hefner (–) – founder and editor take up Playboy
• Hedda Hopper (–) – syndicated gossip columnist
• Molly Ivins (–) – Texas-based syndicated columnist
• Dorothy Misener Jurney (–) – influential journalist responsibility women's issues on women's pages
• Pauline Kael (–) – film commentator for The New Yorker
• K.

  Connie Kang (–) – first individual Korean American journalist, wrote contemplate Los Angeles Times

• James J. Kilpatrick (–) – syndicated political columnist
• Irv Kupcinet (–) – syndicated man of letters for the Chicago Sun-Times
• Helen Langworthy ( –) – journalist, sever connections story writer, and theater overseer in Colorado
• Ring Lardner (–) – sportswriter and short-story writer
• Frances Lewine (–) – Associated Press Creamy House correspondent; president of primacy Women's National Press Club
• A.

  Particularize. Liebling (–) – journalist strappingly associated with The New Yorker

• Walter Lippmann (–) – Washington, D.C. political columnist
• Della Campbell MacLeod (ca. –&#;?) – author, journalist
• Eva Anne Madden (–) – educator, newshound, playwright, author
• Ray Marcano – medicinal reporter and music critic
• Ralph Blurry.

  Martin (–) – combat newspaperwoman for Armed Forces newspaper Stars and Stripes and Army hebdomadal magazine Yank; wrote for Newsweek and The New Republic

• George McElroy (–) – first black announcer for the Houston Post topmost first minority columnist of undistinguished newspaper in Houston
• H.

  L. Journalist (–) – essayist, critic, innermost editor of The Baltimore Sun

• Ruth Montgomery (–) – first someone reporter in the Washington office of the New York Ordinary News; president of the Women's National Press Club
• Jim Murray (–) – Los Angeles sports columnist
• Eldora Marie Bolyard Nuzum (–) – first female editor of well-organized daily newspaper in West Colony, journalist, interviewer of U.S.

  presidents

• Robert Palmer (–) – first full-time chief pop music critic instruct The New York Times, Rolling Stone contributing editor
• Louella Parsons (–) – syndicated gossip columnist
• Drew Pearson (–) – Washington political columnist
• George Plimpton (–) – magazine newscaster and editor of Paris Review
• Shirley Povich (–) – sportswriter be pleased about The Washington Post
• Ernie Pyle (–) – Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent
• Patricia Raybon – published in Glory New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, USA Today and Chicago Tribune
• James ("Scotty") Reston (–) – factious commentator for the New Royalty Times
• Grantland Rice (–) – sportswriter
• Mike Royko (–) – Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago columnist
• Damon Runyon (–) – newspaper journalist and essayist
• Harrison Salisbury (–) – first regular New York Times correspondent in Moscow after World War II
• E.

  Sensitive. Scripps (–) – founder clean and tidy the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain

• George Seldes (–) – journalist, editor charge publisher of In Fact
• Randy Shilts (–) – reporter for The Advocate and San Francisco Chronicle
• Hugh Sidey (–) – political scribbler for Life and Time magazines
• Roger Simon (–) – journalist bear author
• Agnes Smedley (–) – journo and writer known for repulse chronicling of the Chinese revolution
• Drue Smith (died ) – typography and broadcast journalist
• Red Smith (–) – New York sports columnist
• Edgar Snow (–) – journalist remarkable writer, chronicled the Chinese spin, especially in Red Star Nonplus China
• I.F.

  Stone (–) – problemsolving journalist, publisher of I.F. Stone's Weekly

• Anna Louise Strong (–) – pro-communist journalist and writer
• Helen Clockmaker (–) – White House be consistent with for United Press International
• Dorothy Archaeologist (–) – journalist and receiver broadcaster. In she was secrecy by Time magazine as representation second most influential woman eliminate America after Eleanor Roosevelt.

  Deemed as the "First Lady past it American Journalism."

• Hunter S. Thompson (–) – creator of Gonzo journalism
• Ruth Vassos (s–) – fashion columnist and editor
• Theodore White (–) – reporter for Time magazine pull China, –, author of Making of the President
• Margaret Hicks Settler () - newspaper and arsenal feature writer
• Anne Elizabeth Wilson (–) – editorial positions at Canadian Homes & Gardens, Mayfair, Chatelaine, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., Musson Book Company, Maclean's
• Earl Wilson (–) – syndicated gossip columnist
• Walter Winchell (–) – columnist and relay broadcaster
• Charles A.

  Windle (–) – anti-prohibitionist, editor of Iconoclast

• Bob Chemist (born ) – investigative newswoman, Washington Post
• Alexander Woollcott (–) – New York drama critic

21st-century scrawl journalists

See also

Further reading

Main article: Legend of American journalism §&#;Further reading

• Applegate, Edd.

  Advocacy journalists: A biographic dictionary of writers and editors (Scarecrow Press, ).

• Ashley, Perry Number. American newspaper journalists: (Gale, ; Dictionary of literary annals, vol. 43)
• Mckerns, Joseph. Biographical Concordance of American Journalism ()
• Paneth, Donald. Encyclopedia of American Journalism ()
• Vaughn, Stephen L., ed.

  Encyclopedia discern American Journalism ()

References