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 Mary Temple Bayard (pen name, "Meg"; 1853–1916) – writer, journalist Philip Alexander Bell (1808–1886) – abolitionist; founder and editor of The Colored American, The Pacific Appeal, and The San Francisco Elevator Lettie S. Bigelow (1849–1906) – "Aunt Dorothy" letters at True Light Anna Braden (1858–1939) – editor, Presbyterian Visitor Mary Towne Burt (1842–1898) – newspaper publisher and editor of Our Union, the organ of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union Elizabeth Cameron (editor) (1851–1929) - magazine editor Anna Maria Mead Chalmers (1809–1891) – children's literature writer and journalist Emma Shaw Colcleugh (1846–1940) – newspaper book reviewer (The Providence Journal) and contributor (Boston Evening Transcript) 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 William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1809) – editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator 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 Florence Huntley (1855–1912) – journalist and editor, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Minneapolis Tribune, The Washington Post Claudia Quigley Murphy (1863–1941) – journalist, economic consultant, advisory counsel, author 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; America's first daily newspaper columnist Alice Hobbins Porter (1854–1926) – British-born American journalist, correspondent, editor Rebecca N. Porter (1883–1963) - educator, author, journalist Mary Virginia Proctor (1854–1927) – editor, Lebanon Patriot Esther Pugh (1834–1908) – editor and publisher of Our Union, the organ of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union 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 Henry James Ten Eyck (1856–1887) – editor of Albany Evening Journal Lydia H. Tilton (1839–1915) – newspaper correspondent Madge Morris Wagner (1862–1924) - journalist, poet; editor of The Golden Era Rosa Kershaw Walker (1840s–1909) – society section journalist of St. Louis Post-Dispatch and St. Louis Globe-Democrat; proprietor and editor of Fashion and Fancy Jeannette H. Walworth (pen names, "Mother Goose" and "Ann Atom"; 1835–1918) – American journalist, novelist; contributor to The Continent and The Commercial Appeal Ida B. Wells (1862–1931) – investigative journalist and reformer, noted for investigating lynching in the United States Rosa Louise Woodberry (1869–1932) – journalist, educator; on staff with The Augusta Chronicle and the Savannah Press Caroline M. Clark Woodward (1840–1924) – temperance newspaper writer
19th-century and 20th-century print journalists Grace Alexander (1872–1951), society editor, Indianapolis News Arthur William à Beckett (1844–1909) – English journalist and intellectual 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) Adda Burch (1869–1929) – Pennsylvania State reporter to The Union Signal Mamie Claflin (1867–1929) – publisher, St. Paul Phonograph; editor, Ord Journal; editor and publisher, The Union Worker Richard Harding Davis (1864–1916) – first American correspondent to cover the Spanish–American War (1898), Second Boer War (1899–1902), Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905) and the 1914–16 stages of World War I Mary G. Charlton Edholm (1854–1935) – reformer, journalist; World's Superintendent of press work, Woman's Christian Temperance Union; secretary for the International Federation Women's Press League; contributor, New York World, the Chicago Tribune, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Republican, Chicago Inter Ocean, The Union Signal, the New York Voice, Woman's Journal, The Woman's Tribune, and the California Illustrated Magazine; editor, The Christian Home 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 Corinne Stocker Horton (1871–1947) – newspaper editor (The Atlanta Journal); journalist Sarah Huston (1848–1926) - columnist; newspaper editor and publisher, The Home Alliance Maria I. Johnston (1835–1921) – reporter, correspondent, writer and/or editor at the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, St. Louis Spectator, New Orleans Picayune, New Orleans Times-Democrat, and Boston Woman's Journal Lillian A. Lewis (1861–?) – first African-American woman journalist in Boston Martha D. Lincoln (1838–?; pen name, "Bessie Beech") – American author and journalist; co-founder, Woman's National Press Association Muriel Irwin MacDonald (1867–1918), journalist, editor of Los Angeles Times, The Craftsman, The Delineator, Housewives' League Magazine, The Forecast Magazine, New-York Tribune Estelle M. H. Merrill (pen name, "Jean Kincaid"; 1858–1908) – journalist, editor; charter member of the New England Woman's Press Association, contributor to the Boston Transcript, staff on The Boston Globe, co-editor of American Motherhood, 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 Robert Percival Porter (1852–1917) – British-born American journalist, editor, statistician; co-founder of the New York Press Effie Hoffman Rogers (1853/55–1918) – editor-in-chief and publisher of the P.E.O. Record Grace Carew Sheldon (1855–1921) – journalist, author, editor, businesswoman; staff and special correspondent of the Buffalo Courier; department editor of the Buffalo Times Jennie O. Starkey (ca. 1856 – 1918) – journalist and editor, Detroit Free Press; charter member, Michigan Woman's Press Association; president, Michigan Woman's Press Club; board of directors, Michigan Authors' Association Jane Agnes Stewart (1860–1944) – author, newspaper editor Marion Foster Washburne (1863–1944)- journalist, author, newspaper/magazine editor, lecturer, educator Sallie Joy White (1847–1909) – journalist Alice Willard (1860–1936) – journalist, editor Ella B. Ensor Wilson (1838–1913) – founder, proprietor, editor of the Wilsonton Journal
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 (1925–2019) – newspaper and magazine essayist Jeanne Bellamy (1911–2004) – reporter and first female member of the editorial board for the Miami Herald Robert Benchley (1889–1945) – newspaper and magazine humorist Marilyn Berger (born 1935) – diplomatic correspondent, Washington Post Carl Bernstein (born 1944) – investigative journalist, Washington Post 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 (1930–2017) – New York columnist Eve Brodlique (1867–1949) – Chicago columnist, editor Heywood Broun (1888–1939) – columnist and guild organizer Helen Gurley Brown (1922–2012) – editor of Cosmopolitan magazine Colleen Dishon (1924–2004) – first woman listed in the Chicago Tribune masthead 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 Harriet L. Cramer (1847–1922) – newspaper editor and publisher, The Evening Wisconsin Linda Deutsch (born 1943) – American Associated Press court journalist Edna Marie Dunn (1893–1983) – fashion illustrator The Kansas City Star Roger Ebert (1942–2013) – Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago film critic Margaret Dye Ellis (1845–1925) – correspondent, The Union Signal Victor Eubank (1883–1955) – wrote the Associated Press's lead financial story every day for 15 years Mary Fels (1863–1953) – editor of The Public: A Journal of Democracy Carol Lee Flinders (born ?) – Laurel's Kitchen syndicated columnist Jack Fuller (1946–2016) – editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune Martha Gellhorn (1908–1998) – war correspondent Vera Glaser (1916–2008) – journalist and feminist Bob Greene (born 1947) – journalist Frances Nimmo Greene (1867–1937) – editor, woman's page of The Birmingham News Ruth Gruber (1911–2016) – journalist Emily Hahn (1905–1997) – wrote extensively on China David Halberstam (1934–2007) – foreign correspondent, political and sport journalist