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

• 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.

19th-century and 20th-century print journalists

• Arthur William à Beckett (1844-1909) – English journalist and intellectual.
• Richard Harding Davis (1864–1916) – reporter since 1880s; first American correspondent to cover the Spanish–American War (1898), the Second Boer War (1899–1902), the Russo-Japanese War (1904–05) and the 1914–16 stages of World War I

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
• Robert Benchley (1889-1945) - newspaper and magazine humorist
• 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
• Jack Fuller (1946-present) – editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune
• Martha Gellhorn (1908–1998) - war correspondent
• Bob Greene (born 1947) – 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 and 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
• George McElroy (1922–2006) – first black reporter for the Houston Post and first minority columnist of any newspaper in Houston
• 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
• H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) – essayist, critic, and editor of The Baltimore Sun
• Jim Murray (1919-1998) - Los Angeles sports columnist
• Eldora Marie Bolyard Nuzum (1926–2004) – first female editor of a daily newspaper in WV, 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
• 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 Two
• 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
• Agnes Smedley (1892–1950) - journalist and writer known for her chronicling of the Chinese revolution
• Drue Smith (Unknown-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

• John Randall Anthony Taraborrelli
• Charles Duhigg
• Lloyd Grove - gossip columnist for the New York Daily News
• Maria Hall-Brown
• Jorge Lanata
• Paul Spencer Sochaczewski - writer, writing coach, conservationist and communications advisor to international non-governmental organizations
• David Warsh - Gerald Loeb Award-winning journalist, published in both print and non-print media
• Brian Williams

See also

• Irish American journalism

Further reading

Main article: History of 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)