Famous Journalists in American History
Ben Franklin
John Peter Zenger (New York Weekly Journal)
Elijah Lovejoy, 1802-1837
Alice Dunnigan, 1906-1983 (African American
press)
Ethel Payne, 1911-1991 (civil rights reporter)
Horace Greeley (New York Tribune)
Robert Capa, 1913-1954 (combat
photojournalist)
Margaret Fuller, 1810-1850
Edward R. Murrow
Mathew Brady, 1823-1896 (photo-journalist)
Walter Cronkite
Benjamin Day (New York Sun “penny press”)
Robert L. Johnson (Black Entertainment
Television)
Christopher Perry (Philadelphia Tribune)
William Randolph Hearst
Joseph Pulitzer
Henry R. Luce (Time, Fortune, Life, etc)
Samuel L. Clemens, 1835-1910
Victoria Woodhull, 1838-1927
John H. Murphy (1892, Afro-American)
Jacob Riis, 1849-1914 (documentary
photographer)
Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman), 18671922
Upton Sinclair
W.E.B. DuBois (1910, Crisis)
William Trotter
H. L. Mencken, 1880-1956
David Sarnoff (creator NBC)
Walter Winchell, 1897-1972 (gossip columnist)
Ernie Pyle, 1900-1945
Dorothea Lange (documentary photographer)
Walter Lippman (The New Republic)
Margaret Bourke-White , 1904-1971 (photojournalist)
Marguerite Higgins (war correspondent)
Peter Arnett
Hunter S. Thompson, 1937-2005
Tom Wolfe
Jann Wenner (Rolling Stone)
Katharine Graham, 1917- (Washington Post)
Seymour Hersh, 1937- (investigative reporter)
Carl Bernstein 1944Bob Woodward 1943Anna Quindlen, 1951Oprah Winfrey
Matt Drudge (The Drudge Report)
Paul Krugman (The New York Times)
Mike Wallace (60 minutes)
David Halberstam
Gloria Steinem (Ms. Magazine)
I.F. Stone (The Nation)
Charles Kuralt
Rupert Murdoch
Robert Clyve Maynard
Famous Journalists in American History
Barbara Walters (The ABC Evening News)
Peter Cashmore (blogger, “Mashable”)
William Safire (The New York Times)
Andrew Sullivan (blogger, “the Daily Dish”)
Ted Koppel
Eric Schlosser
Tim Russert
Morgan Spurlock
Connie Chung (News anchor)
Christopher Hitchens
Tom Brokaw
Dan Rather
Helen Thomas (Washington beat)
Judith Miller
Robert Novak
Peter Jennings
Bernard Shaw
Rush Limbaugh
Wolf Blitzer
Katie Couric
Cokie Roberts
Jim Lehrer
Ira Glass
Anderson Cooper
Fareed Zakaria (Newsweek, CNN)
Michelle Malkin (blogger, Fox News)
Thomas Friedman (New York Times)
Gwen Ifill (PBS)
Mike Allen (The Daily Beast)
Arianna Huffington
Joshua Green (The Atlantic)
Seymour Hersh (The New Yorker)
Michael Moore (documentary director)