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
M. E. C. Bates (1839–1905) – writer, journalist, newspaper editor; co-organizer/president of the Michigan Woman's Press Association; associate editor of the Grand Traverse Herald; writer for the Evening Record and the Detroit Tribune; oldest, continuous, newspaper correspondent in Michigan
Alma Carrie Cummings (1857–1926) – journalist; newspaper editor and proprietor (Colebrook, New Hampshire, News and Sentinel)
Susan E. Dickinson (1842–1915) – Civil War correspondent, noted for her articles about the coal mining industry, suffrage, and women's rights
Louise E. Francis (1869–1932) - journalist; newspaper editor, publisher, proprietor (Castroville Enterprise,)
Barbara Galpin (1855–1922) – journalist; affiliated for 25 years with the Somerville Journal, serving as compositor, proof reader, cashier, editor woman's page and assistant manager
Horace Greeley (1811–1872) – newspaper editor, founder of the New York Tribune, reformer, politician, opponent of slavery
Eliza Trask Hill (1840–1908) – activist, journalist, philanthropist; founder, editor, Woman's Voice and Public School Champion, an organ of the Protestant Independent Women Voters
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"
John Neal (1793–1876) – fiction author; critic; magazine and newspaper essayist and editor; founder of The Yankee;[1][2] America's first daily newspaper columnist[3]
Alice Hobbins Porter (1854–1926) – British-born American journalist, correspondent, editor
Anna Rankin Riggs (1835–1908) – founder, editor, Oregon White Ribbon, official organ of the Oregon WCTU
Anne Royall (1769–1854) – first female journalist in the United States; first woman to interview a president; publisher and editor for Paul Pry (1831–1836) and The Huntress (1836–54) in Washington, D.C.
Rowena Granice Steele (1824–1901) – performer, author, newspaper journalist, editor, publisher; contributor to The Golden Era, co-founder of The Pioneer , assistant editor of the San Joaquin Valley Argus, editor and proprietor of the Budget
Susie Forrest Swift (1862–1916) – editor of All the World, Catholic World, and Young Catholic
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914?) – editor, columnist, and journalist
Marion Howard Brazier (1850–1935) – journalist, editor, author, and clubwoman; society editor of The Boston Post (1890–98) and The Boston Journal (1903–1911); edited and published the Patriotic Review (1898–1900)
Jessie Forsyth (1847/49–1937) – temperance advocate; editor of The Temperance Brotherhood, The Massachusetts Templar, International Good Templar, and The Dawn
Ella M. George (1850–1938) – contributor, Christian Statesman; editor, Pennsylvania W.C.T.U. Bulletin
Jeannette Leonard Gilder (pen name, "Brunswick"; 1849–1916) – author, journalist, critic, editor; regular correspondent and literary critic, Chicago Tribune; correspondent, Boston Saturday Evening Gazette, Boston Transcript, Philadelphia Record and Press; owner and editor, The Reader: An Illustrated 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 (1852–1918) – journalist, temperance activist, novelist, newspaper editor, journal publisher; contributor, Temperance Banner, The Union Signal, and Woman's News; publisher, True Ideal; special writer, Daily News Record; society editor, Chicago Times
Kate E. Griswold (1860–1923) – editor, publisher, and proprietor of Profitable Advertising
S. Isadore Miner (1863–1916; pen name, "Pauline Periwinkle") – journalist, poet, teacher, feminist; first corresponding secretary of the Michigan Woman's Press Association; staff member of Good Health; founder, editor of the "Woman's Century" page of The Dallas Morning News
Annie L. Y. Orff (1861–1914) – American journalist; magazine editor and publisher
Grace Carew Sheldon (1855–1921) – journalist, author, editor, businesswoman; staff and special correspondent of the Buffalo Courier; department editor of the Buffalo Times
Helen Thomas (1920–2013) – White House correspondent for United Press International
Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961) – journalist and radio broadcaster. In 1939 she was recognized by Time magazine as the second most influential woman in America after Eleanor Roosevelt. Regarded as the "First Lady of American Journalism."
Anne Elizabeth Wilson (1901–1946) – editorial positions at Canadian Homes & Gardens, Mayfair, Chatelaine, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., Musson Book Company, Maclean's
Earl Wilson (1907–1987) – syndicated gossip columnist
Walter Winchell (1897–1972) – columnist and radio broadcaster
Charles A. Windle (1866–1934) – anti-prohibitionist, editor of Iconoclast
Bob Woodward (born 1943) – investigative journalist, Washington Post
Applegate, Edd. Advocacy journalists: A biographical dictionary of writers and editors (Scarecrow Press, 2009).
Ashley, Perry J. American newspaper journalists: 1690-1872 (Gale, 1985; Dictionary of literary biography, vol. 43)
Mckerns, Joseph. Biographical Dictionary of American Journalism (1989)
Paneth, Donald. Encyclopedia of American Journalism (1983)
Vaughn, Stephen L., ed. Encyclopedia of American Journalism (2007)
References
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