List of American journalists

=19th-century print journalists=

*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.

20th-century print journalists

*Samuel Hopkins Adams (1871–1958) - American investigative journalist
*Trezzvant Anderson (1906–1963) journalist for African-American press, covered civil rights movement
*Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)
*Paul Bailey (1906–1987) notable small-town owner-publisher in WWII-era California
*Ben Bradlee, editor of the Washington Post at the time of the Watergate scandal
*Amy Braunschweiger (?-?) - Journalist for "The New York Times" and "The Wall Street Journal"
*C.P. Connolly (1863–1935) radical American investigative journalist associated for many years with "Collier's Weekly"
*Paul Foot (1938–2004)
*Martha Gellhorn (1908–1998) war correspondent
*Emily Hahn (1905–1997) - wrote extensively on China
*Pauline Kael (1919–2001) - Film critic for "The New Yorker"
*Frances Lewine (1921–2008) Associated Press White House Correspondent and president of the Women's National Press Club
*A.J. Liebling (1904–1963) American journalist closely associated with "The New Yorker"
*Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)
*Jonathan Meades
*H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) - essayist, critic, and editor of "The Baltimore Sun"
*George Orwell (1903–1950) - reported on poverty, misery, and the Spanish Civil War
*Robert Palmer (1945–1997) - first full-time, chief pop music critic for "The New York Times", "Rolling Stone" contributing editor
*Richard Preston (1954) - science writer and author of The Hot Zone
*James ("Scotty") Reston (1909–1995) - political commentator for the "New York Times"
*Edward Said (1935–2003) - essayist, Palestinan-American activist
*Harrison Salisbury, first regular "New York Times" correspondent in Moscow after World War Two
*George Seldes (1890–1995) - American journalist, editor and publisher of "In Fact"
*Randy Shilts - reporter for The Advocate and San Francisco Chronicle
*Agnes Smedley (1892–1950) journalist and writer known for her chronicling of the Chinese revolution
*Edgar Snow, 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, pro-communist journalist and writer
*Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005), creator of Gonzo journalism
*Theodore White (1915–1986), American reporter for Time (magazine) in China, 1939–1944; Making of the President
*Walter Winchell (1897–1972), American political columnist, radio broadcasterseries, 1960-

21st-century print journalists

*Peter Garrison, California-based columnist for Flying, Air & Space, and travel magazines; aviation expert
*Lloyd Grove, gossip columnist for the "New York Daily News"
*Ed Hooper (born 1964) American broadcaster and journalist closely associated with Southern Appalachia
*Daniel Terdiman (Award winning journalist, published in both print and non-print media)
*David Warsh (Gerald Loeb Award-winning journalist, published in both print and non-print media)