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Encyclopedia > List of newspaper writers

This is a list of newspaper writers, journalists or other authors who may have written for major metropolitan newspapers or other types of major periodical newspapers.


Note that this list may include authors who are not necessarily employed by a particular newspaper but may in syndication. Many of these may no longer write for newspapers or may not now be primarily known as newspaper writers.

Mitchell David Albom (born May 23, 1958 in Passaic, New Jersey) is an award-winning sportswriter novelist, newspaper columnist for the Detroit Free Press, syndicated radio host, and TV commentator. ... Jackson Northman Anderson (October 19, 1922–December 17, 2005) was a former American newspaper columnist and is considered one of the fathers of modern investigative journalism. ... Tony Barrell is a British journalist, known for his humour and his exploration of the unusual and the unexplained. ... Barry Bearak is an American journalist. ... Carl Bernstein (born February 14, 1944) is an American journalist who, as an investigative reporter for The Washington Post along with Bob Woodward, broke the story of the Watergate break-in and consequently helped bring about the resignation of US president Richard Nixon. ... Kevin Blackistone has been a columnist for The Dallas Morning News since 1986, and is a regular panelist for ESPNs Around The Horn. ... Jayson Blair Jayson Thomas Blair (born 23 March 1976) is a former New York Times reporter disgraced for committing repeated journalistic fraud. ... Elizabeth Jane Cochran (May 5, 1864 - January 27, 1922), born in Cochrans Mills, Pennsylvania, and called Pink. (Her nickname alluded to a bright pink dress in which she was christened. ... Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee (born August 26, 1921) is the vice president of the Washington Post. ... Jimmy Breslin (born October 17, 1930 in Jamaica, New York) is an Irish American columnist and author who has written numerous novels and appeared regularly in various newspapers in New York City, where he lives. ... David Brinkley David McClure Brinkley (July 10, 1920 – June 11, 2003) was an American television newscaster for NBC and, later, ABC. From 1956 through 1970 he co-anchored NBCs nightly news program The Huntley–Brinkley Report with Chet Huntley. ... David Broder David S. Broder is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, currently with The Washington Post. ... Arthur Art Buchwald (born October 20, 1925) is an American humorist best known for his long-running column in The Washington Post newspaper, which concentrates on political satire and commentary. ... Anthony Burgess Anthony Burgess (February 15, 1917 - November 22, 1993) was an English novelist and critic. ... Philip Caputo (born (1941 June 10) is an American author and journalist. ... The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was an British statesman, best known as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. ... Adam Clymer was New York Times reporter and, in then-presidential candidate George W. Bushs words, a major league asshole. Clymer covered the 2000 presidential campaign for the Times and wrote several articles that were unfavorable to the Bush campaign. ... Several people are named Richard Cohen: Richard Cohen is a columnist for the Washington Post Richard E. Cohen is the Congressional correspondent for the National Journal (a political magazine in the United States). ... Nicholas Confessore is a journalist who is currently writing for the New York Times. ... Gareth Cook is a Pulitzer prize winning science journalist, currently at the Boston Globe. ... Janet Cooke (born 1958) was an American journalist who became infamous when she won a Pulitzer Prize for a fabricated story that she wrote for The Washington Post. ... Michael Jerome Cooper (born April 15, 1956 in Los Angeles, California) is currently assistant coach of the NBAs Denver Nuggets, and a former NBA player who spent his entire playing career with the Los Angeles Lakers. ... James Creelman (November 12, 1859 – February 12, 1915), was a reporter in the heydey of yellow journalism. ... Charles Wentworth Dilke (1789 - 1864), critic and writer on literature, served for many years in the Navy Pay-Office, on retiring from which he devoted himself to literary pursuits. ... John Diamond (May 10, 1953 - March 2, 2001) was a British broadcaster and journalist. ... Eugene J. E.J. Dionne, Jr. ... Maureen Dowds NYTimes. ... Benjamin Franklin by Jean-Baptiste Greuze 1777 Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790) was one of the most prominent of Founders and early political figures and statesmen of the United States. ... Thomas L. Friedman (born July 20, 1953) is an American journalist, columnist, and author, currently working as an Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times. ... Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), Marchioness Ossoli. ... Jack W. Germond is a journalist, author, and pundit. ... Bill Gertz is a Washington Times reporter and Fox News analyst. ... Ellen Holtz Goodman (born 11 April 1941 in Newton, Massachusetts) is an American journalist. ... Albert Arnold Gore Jr. ... Rachel Gordon (born 1976) is an Australian acrtess. ... David Halberstam (born April 10, 1934), American journalist and author, was born in New York City. ... A portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull, 1792. ... Ben Hecht (February 28, 1894 – April 18, 1964) was one of the most prolific of all Hollywood screenwriters, even though he professed disdain for the motion picture industry, and a human rights and Zionism activist. ... Jesse Helms Jesse Alexander Helms (born October 18, 1921) is a former five-term Republican U.S. Senator from North Carolina whose name was become synonymous with racism. ... Ernest Hemingway, 1950 Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist and short story writer whose works, drawn from his wide range of experiences in World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II, are characterized by terse minimalism, understatement and primer style... Seymour Hersh Seymour Myron (Sy) Hersh (born April 8, 1937) is an American investigative journalist and author who contributes regularly to The New Yorker on military and security matters. ... Marguerite Higgins (September 3, 1920 - January 3, 1966), American reporter and war correspondent. ... Napoleon Hill (October 26, 1883–November 8, 1970) was an American author who was one the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature. ... Christopher Hitchens Christopher Eric Hitchens (born April 13, 1949) is a British journalist, author, and literary critic. ... Karen Elliott House is the publisher of the Wall Street Journal, and a senior vice president of Dow Jones. ... David Jackson (?? - July 13, 2001) was the life partner of poet James Merrill (1926-1995). ... Ian William Geddes Johnson (born December 8, 1917 in North Melbourne, Victoria - died October 9, 1998 in Melbourne) was an Australian cricketer. ... David Cay Johnston is an investigative journalist for The New York Times now focusing on taxes. ... Charles Krauthammer Charles Krauthammer (born March 13, 1950 in New York) is a syndicated columnist who appears in the Washington Post and other publications. ... Nicholas D. Kristof is a columnist for The New York Times whose specialty is East Asian affairs, especially those of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Howard Kurtz is an American journalist, author and media critic. ... Rose Wilder Lane (December 5, 1886–October 30, 1968) was an American writer and the daughter of author Laura Ingalls Wilder. ... Fitz Hugh Ludlow, sometimes seen as Fitzhugh Ludlow, (September 11, 1836 – September 12, 1870) was an American author, journalist, and explorer; best-known for his autobiographical book The Hasheesh Eater (1857). ... Mary McGrory (August 22, 1918 – April 20, 2004) was an American journalist and columnist. ... Gabriel García Márquez Gabriel José García Márquez (born March 6, 1928) is a Colombian novelist, journalist, publisher, and political activist. ... Rhodri Marsden is a London-based journalist, musician, radio presenter and blogger. ... H. L. Mencken Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956), better known as H. L. Mencken was a twentieth century journalist, satirist and social critic, a cynic and a freethinker, known as the Sage of Baltimore and the American Nietzsche. He is often regarded as one of the... Alan Miller was an influential figure in the video game industry. ... Robert David Sanders Novak (born February 26, 1931) is an American journalist and political figure. ... John Henry OHara (31 January 1905 – 11 April 1970) was an American writer who was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. ... For information on the popular 20th century British vocalist by the same name, see Robert Palmer (British singer). ... Daniel Pearl Daniel Pearl (October 10, 1963–January 29/30, 2002) was a journalist, an American and a Jew. ... Albert Pike (* December 29, 1809 in Boston; † April 2, 1891 in Washington, D.C.) was an attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason. ... Dana Priest is a journalist and author. ... Ernie Pyle Memorial, Ie-jima, Okinawa, Japan Ernest Taylor Pyle, better known as Ernie Pyle (August 3, 1900 – April 18, 1945) was an American journalist, who wrote as a roving correspondent for the Scripps Howard newspaper chain from 1935 on. ... Anna Quindlen is a liberal American journalist, novelist and opinion columnist whose New York Times column, Public and Private, won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992. ... Sheldon Rampton (born August 4, 1957) is the editor of PR Watch, and the author of several books that criticize the public relations industry and what he sees as other forms of corporate and government propaganda. ... Richard Read is senior writer for international affairs and special projects at The Oregonian, a Portland, Oregon newspaper. ... Grantland Rice (November 1, 1880–July 13, 1954) was an early 20th century American sportswriter. ... Jacob Riis Jacob August Riis (May 3, 1849 - March 26, 1914), a Danish-American muckraker journalist and slum and school reformer, was born in Ribe, Denmark. ... Biography Anne Royall (1769 - 1854), the first professional female journalist in the United States, was born Anne Newport in 1769 in Baltimore. ... Mike Royko (September 19, 1932 – April 29, 1997) was a long-running newspaper columnist in Chicago, Illinois. ... Categories: People stubs | 1821 births | 1907 deaths ... William L. Safire (born December 17, 1929) is an author, semi-retired columnist, and former journalist and presidential speechwriter. ... Connie Schultz (born July 21, 1957), of Cleveland, Ohio, is a columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. ... Barry Siegel is a former staff writer for the Los Angeles Times who won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 2002. ... Thomas Sowell Thomas Sowell (born 30 June 1930) is a prominent American economist, political writer, and conservative-libertarian[1] commentator. ... Ida Tarbell Ida Minerva Tarbell (November 5, 1857 - January 6, 1944) was an American author and journalist, known as one of the leading muckrakers. ... Helen Thomas - Senior White House Correspondent Helen Thomas (born August 4, 1920 in Winchester, Kentucky) is a news service reporter and dean of the White House press corps. ... Disambiguation:- (Dorothy Thompson (nee Towers) (1923- ) is also the historian wife of the late E. P. Thompson; she is a leading expert on the Chartist movement. ... Hunter S. Thompson (Photo by Allen G. Arpadi) Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author. ... Sergio Troncoso Sergio Troncoso is an American author of short stories and novels. ... Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was a famous and popular American humorist, novelist, writer and lecturer. ... A number of men have the name João Vieira, including: João Bernardo Vieira, a Guinea-Bissau general who served as president of that country from 1980-1999 João P Vieira, a portuguese IT professional that writes books, columns for magazines and journals about new technologies João... Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ... Theodore White on a book cover Theodore Harold White (1915–1986) was an American political journalist, historian, and novelist, best known for his acclaimed accounts of the 1960, 1964, 1968, and 1972 presidential elections. ... George Frederick Will (born May 4, 1941) is an American columnist, journalist, and author. ... Walter Winchell (April 7, 1897 – February 20, 1972), an American newspaper and radio commentator, invented the gossip column at the New York Evening Graphic. ... Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein Robert Upshur Bob Woodward (born March 26, 1943) is one of the best-known journalists in the United States, thanks largely to his work in helping uncover the Watergate scandal that led to President Richard Nixons resignation, in a historical journalistic partnership with Carl...

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This is a list of newspaper writers, journalists or other authors who may have written for major metropolitan newspapers or other types of major periodical newspapers.
Note that this list may include authors who are not necessarily employed by a particular newspaper but may in syndication.
Many of these may no longer write for newspapers or may not now be primarily known as newspaper writers.
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