List of American print journalists

19th-century print journalists

• Martha E. Cram Bates – American 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
• Philip Alexander Bell – abolitionist; founder and editor of The Colored American, The Pacific Appeal, and The San Francisco Elevator
• Susan E. Dickinson – Civil War correspondent, noted for her articles about the coal mining industry, suffrage, and women's rights
• Barbara Galpin – American 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 – editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator
• Horace Greeley – newspaper editor, founder of the New York Tribune, reformer, politician, opponent of slavery
• Eliza Trask Hill – American activist, journalist, philanthropist; founder, editor, Woman's Voice and Public School Champion, an organ of the Protestant Independent Women Voters
• Thomas Nast – 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"
• Anne Newport Royall – first female journalist in the United States; first woman to interview a president; publisher and editor for Paul Pry and The Huntress in Washington, D.C.
• Rowena Granice Steele – American 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
• Henry James Ten Eyck – editor of Albany Evening Journal.
• Jeannette Walworth — American journalist, novelist; contributor to The Continent and The Commercial Appeal
• Ida B. Wells – American investigative journalist and reformer, noted for investigating lynching in the United States
• Rosa Louise Woodberry – American journalist, educator; on staff with The Augusta Chronicle and the Savannah Press

  19th-century and 20th-century print journalists

• Arthur William à Beckett – English journalist and intellectual
• Ambrose Bierce – American editor, columnist, and journalist
• Marion Howard Brazier – American journalist, editor, author, and clubwoman; society editor of The Boston Post and The Boston Journal ; edited and published the Patriotic Review
• Richard Harding Davis – first American correspondent to cover the Spanish–American War, Second Boer War, Russo-Japanese War and the 1914–16 stages of World War I
• Mary G. Charlton Edholm – American 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
• Jeannette Leonard Gilder – American 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 – American 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
• Lillian A. Lewis – first African-American woman journalist in Boston
• Estelle M. H. Merrill – American 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 – American 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
• Grace Carew Sheldon – American journalist, author, editor, businesswoman; staff and special correspondent of the Buffalo Courier; department editor of the Buffalo Times
• Sallie Joy White – American journalist

  20th-century print journalists

• Al Abrams – sportswriter, columnist and editor for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
• Jack Anderson – syndicated political columnist
• Paul Y. Anderson – investigative journalist, winner of Pulitzer Prize 1929
• Hannah Arendt – known for book on Eichmann trial
• Russell Baker – newspaper and magazine essayist
• Jeanne Bellamy – reporter and first female member of the editorial board for the Miami Herald
• Robert Benchley – newspaper and magazine humorist
• Marilyn Berger diplomatic correspondent, Washington Post
• Les Biederman – sportswriter, columnist and editor for Pittsburgh Press
• Edna Lee Booker – foreign correspondent in China during the 1930s and 1940s
• Croswell Bowen – reporter for PM Magazine and The New Yorker during the 1940s and 1950s
• Ben Bradlee – editor of the Washington Post at the time of the Watergate scandal
• Jimmy Breslin – New York columnist
• Heywood Broun – columnist and guild organizer
• Helen Gurley Brown – editor of Cosmopolitan magazine
• Art Buchwald – syndicated columnist and humorist
• William F. Buckley, Jr. – founder and editor of The National Review
• Herb Caen – San Francisco columnist
• C. P. Connolly – radical investigative journalist associated for many years with Collier's Weekly
• Linda Deutsch – American Associated Press court journalist
• Roger Ebert – Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago film critic
• Jack Fuller – editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune
• Martha Gellhorn – war correspondent
• Bob Greene – American journalist
• Ruth Gruber – American journalist
• Emily Hahn – wrote extensively on China
• David Halberstam – foreign correspondent, political and sport journalist
• Arnold Hano – freelance journalist, book editor, biographer and novelist
• Hugh Hefner – founder and editor of Playboy
• Hedda Hopper – syndicated gossip columnist
• Molly Ivins – Texas-based syndicated columnist
• Dorothy Misener Jurney – influential journalist covering women's issues on women's pages
• Pauline Kael – film critic for The New Yorker
• James J. Kilpatrick – syndicated political columnist
• Irv Kupcinet – syndicated columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times
• Ring Lardner – sportswriter and short-story writer
• Frances Lewine – Associated Press White House correspondent; president of the Women's National Press Club
• A. J. Liebling – journalist closely associated with The New Yorker
• Walter Lippmann – Washington, D.C. political columnist
• Eva Anne Madden, American educator, journalist, playwright, author
• Ray Marcano – medical reporter and music critic
• Ralph G. Martin – combat correspondent for Armed Forces newspaper Stars and Stripes and Army weekly magazine Yank; wrote for Newsweek and The New Republic
• George McElroy – first black reporter for the Houston Post and first minority columnist of any newspaper in Houston
• H. L. Mencken – essayist, critic, and editor of The Baltimore Sun
• Ruth Montgomery – first female reporter in the Washington bureau of the New York Daily News; president of the Women's National Press Club
• Jim Murray – Los Angeles sports columnist
• Eldora Marie Bolyard Nuzum – first female editor of a daily newspaper in West Virginia, journalist, interviewer of U.S. presidents
• Robert Palmer – first full-time chief pop music critic for The New York Times, Rolling Stone contributing editor
• Louella Parsons – syndicated gossip columnist
• Drew Pearson – Washington political columnist
• George Plimpton – magazine journalist and editor of Paris Review
• Shirley Povich – sportswriter for The Washington Post
• Ernie Pyle – Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent
• Patricia Raybon – published in The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, USA Today and Chicago Tribune
• James Reston – political commentator for the New York Times
• Grantland Rice – sportswriter
• Mike Royko – Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago columnist
• Damon Runyon – newspaper journalist and essayist
• Harrison Salisbury – first regular New York Times correspondent in Moscow after World War II
• E. W. Scripps – founder of the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain
• George Seldes – journalist, editor and publisher of In Fact
• Randy Shilts – reporter for The Advocate and San Francisco Chronicle
• Hugh Sidey – political writer for Life and Time magazines
• Roger Simon – journalist and author
• Agnes Smedley – journalist and writer known for her chronicling of the Chinese revolution
• Drue Smith – print and broadcast journalist
• Red Smith – New York sports columnist
• Edgar Snow – journalist and writer, chronicled the Chinese revolution, especially in Red Star Over China
• I.F. Stone – investigative journalist, publisher of I.F. Stone's Weekly
• Anna Louise Strong – pro-communist journalist and writer
• Helen Thomas – White House correspondent for United Press International
• Dorothy Thompson – creator of Gonzo journalism
• Theodore White – reporter for Time magazine in China, 1939–1944, author of Making of the President
• Earl Wilson – syndicated gossip columnist
• Walter Winchell – columnist and radio broadcaster
• Charles A. Windle – anti-prohibitionist, editor of Iconoclast
• Alexander Woollcott – New York drama critic

  21st-century print journalists

• Cecilia Ballí, covers Mexican border
• Santo Biasatti
• Nelson Castro
• Ron Chernow
• Charles Duhigg
• Lloyd Grove — gossip columnist for the New York Daily News
• Maria Hall-Brown
• Oliver Holt
• Gwen Ifill
• Mike Jones
• Jens Erik Gould
• Jorge Lanata
• John Leland
• Joshua Lyon
• Steve Mirsky — columnist for Scientific American
• María Laura Santillán
• Eric Schlosser
• Paul Spencer Sochaczewski — writer, writing coach, conservationist and communications advisor to international non-governmental organizations
• Kaitlyn Vincie
• David Warsh — Gerald Loeb Award-winning journalist, published in both print and non-print media
• Amy Westervelt
• Brian Williams