Biographies: Newspaper, Magazine, and Television Journalists

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

Newspaper, Magazine, and Television Journalists

Adams, Franklin Pierce, columnist and author
Alden, Henry Mills, editor
Allen, Steve, television personality, writer, composer
Alsop, Joseph, political journalist
Amanpour, Christiane, television news correspondent
Anderson, Jack, newspaper columnist
Anderson, Margaret C., author, editor, and publisher
Atkinson, Brooks, journalist
Bache, Benjamin Franklin, journalist
Bairnsfather, Bruce, illustrator and author
Ballantyne, James, editor and publisher
Barry, Dave, columnist, author
Beach, Moses Yale, journalist
Beach, Sylvia, publisher
Benjamin, Park, journalist
Bigelow, John, editor
Blair, Francis Preston, journalist and politician
Bly, Nellie, journalist
Bok, Edward William, editor
Bowles, Samuel, newspaper editor
Brinkley, David McClure, news broadcaster
Brokaw, Tom, television journalist
Broun, Heywood Campbell, newspaper columnist and critic
Brown, Helen Gurley, magazine editor, writer
Buchwald, Art, humorist
Buckley, William Frank, Jr., editor, author, and lecturer
Buruma, Ian, journalist, novelist
Campbell, John, editor
Carlson, Margaret, political commentator
Carter, Hodding, journalist and news publisher
Catledge, Turner, newspaperman
Chancellor, John, journalist, television news anchor
Charles, William, cartoonist
Chung, Connie, television news reporter
Clark, Lewis Gaylord, editor and writer
Clift, Eleanor, journalist, political commentator
Clooney, Nick, television personality, columnist
Collins, Gail, newspaper columnist, writer
Colton, Walter, editor
Cooke, Alistair, journalist
Couric, Katie, media personality
Cousins, Norman, editor and author
Croly, Jane Cunningham, journalist and feminist
Cronkite, Walter, news broadcaster
Curry, Ann, television news reporter
Dana, Charles Anderson, newspaper editor
Daniels, Jonathan Worth, newspaper editor and author
Davis, Elmer, newspaperman
Day, Benjamin Henry, journalist
Decter, Midge, journalist, writer
Dennie, Joseph, journalist
Deutscher, Isaac, writer
Dhue, Laurie, television newscaster
Didion, Joan, journalist, novelist
Dixon, Jeane, columnist, prognosticator
Dowd, Maureen, columnist, journalist
Downs, Hugh, television personality
Drew, Elizabeth, journalist
Drudge, Matt, columnist
Duane, William, journalist
Dunne, Dominick, journalist, novelist
Ellsberg, Daniel, political analyst
Evans, Rowland, columnist, author
Farnsworth, Elizabeth, television news reporter
Fessenden, Thomas Green, journalist and satirical poet
Gellhorn, Martha, international correspondent
Geyer, Georgie Anne, foreign correspondent
Godwin, Parke, journalist
Gonzales, Patrisia, journalist
Goodman, Ellen, columnist
Grady, Henry Woodfin, journalist and orator
Graham, Sheilah, gossip columnist, writer
Green, Duff, journalist and politician
Grosvenor, Gilbert Hovey, editor
Gumbel, Bryant, television journalist
Hale, William Bayard, journalist
Harden, Maximilian, journalist
Harvey, George Brinton McClellan, journalist and diplomat
Herblock, editorial cartoonist
Hersh, Seymour, journalist
Hinojosa, Maria, journalist
Howe, Edgar Watson, editor and author
Hughes, Catherine Elizabeth Cathy, radio personality, executive
Huntley, Chet, news broadcaster
Idar, Jovita, journalist, teacher, political activist,
Ifill, Gwen, television news reporter
Ivins, Molly, newspaper columnist
Jennings, Peter, television newscaster
Johnson, Rossiter, editor
Kael, Pauline, film critic
Kendall, Amos, journalist and statesman
Kendall, George Wilkins, journalist
Kenney, Douglas, humorist
Kerr, Walter, theater critic
King, Larry, television personality
Krock, Arthur, journalist
Kuralt, Charles, television news reporter, producer, writer
Landers, Ann, columnist
Lauer, Matt, broadcast journalist
Laughlin, James, editor, publisher, poet,
Lippmann, Walter, essayist and editor
Lorimer, George Horace, editor
MacGahan, Januarius Aloysius, newspaper correspondent
Manning, Daniel, journalist and political leader
Martin, Judith, columnist
McClure, Alexander Kelly, journalist and political leader
McClure, Samuel Sidney, editor and publisher
McCormick, Robert Rutherford, journalist
McGee, Thomas D'Arcy, journalist and statesman
McGill, Ralph Emerson, journalist and publisher
McGrory, Mary, political columnist
Medary, Samuel, journalist
Medill, Joseph, journalist
Meenan, Daniel, news reporter
Mitchell, Andrea, television news correspondent
Mott, Frank Luther, author and professor of journalism
Moyers, Bill, journalist, public official
Murrow, Edward R., journalist, television newscaster
Nasby, Petroleum V., journalist and satirist
Nathan, George Jean, editor and drama critic
Niles, Hezekiah, journalist
Noah, Mordecai Manuel, journalist and politician
Noonan, Peggy, columnist, political writer
Nordhoff, Charles, journalist and author
Northcliffe, Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount, journalist
Novak, Robert, columnist, television personality
Nye, Edgar Wilson, humorist and journalist
O'Beirne, Kate, political commentator
O'Malley, Frank Ward, newspaperman
O'Reilly, Bill, television personality
Page, Walter Hines, journalist and diplomat
Palmer, Frederick, writer and war correspondent
Parent, Ãtienne, journalist and government official
Parsons, Louella, newspaper columnist
Patterson, family of American journalists
Pauley, Jane, television journalist
Pearson, Drew, journalist and radio commentator
Peck, George Wilbur, humorist, state governor
Podhoretz, Norman, editor and essayist
Porter, Sylvia, columnist, author
Postrel, Virginia, magazine editor
Pyle, Ernie, journalist
Rabinowitz, Dorothy, editor, commentator
Rather, Dan, television newscaster
Reasoner, Harry, media journalist, author
Reid, Whitelaw, journalist and diplomat
Reston, James Barrett, journalist
Ross, Harold Wallace, editor
Royko, Mike, newspaper columnist
Russell, Lynne, television news anchor
Safire, William L., journalist and speechwriter
Sawyer, Diane, television newscaster
Schlafly, Phyllis, columnist, activist
Schmich, Mary, columnist
Sedgwick, Ellery, editor
Sherr, Lynn, television news reporter
Shriver, Maria, television newscaster, political relative
Sinclair, Gordon, radio personality
Siskel, Gene, movie critic
Skinner, Nancy, radio personality
Smith, Liz, gossip columnist
Smith, Red, sportswriter
Smith, Seba, humorist
Snyder, Tom, radio and television personality
Springer, Jerry, television personality
Stahl, Lesley, television news reporter
Stead, William Thomas, journalist
Steinem, Gloria, journalist and feminist
Stern, Howard, radio personality
Stewart, Jon, television personality
Stone, I. F., journalist
Susteren, Greta Van, television personality
Taylor, Bayard, journalist and author
Thomas, Robert Bailey, journalist
Thompson, Dorothy, journalist
Thomson or Thompson, Mortimer Neal, journalist and humorist who used the pseudonym Q
Tilton, Theodore, journalist
Trudeau, Garry Beekman, political cartoonist
Tynan, Kenneth Peacock, drama critic
Vanderbilt, Amy, journalist, author
Walters, Barbara, television reporter and anchor
Ward, Artemus, humorist
Warner, Margaret, television news reporter
Watterson, Henry, journalist
Weed, Thurlow, journalist and political leader
Wells-Barnett, Ida B., journalist, activist
White, Richard Grant, journalist
White, Theodore H., political journalist
Whitney, John Hay, public official and newspaper publisher
Will, George, political columnist
Wintour, Anna, magazine editor
Woodward, Bob, journalist
Young, John Russell, journalist
Zahn, Paula, television news reporter, anchor
Zenger, John Peter, journalist

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