Notable Journalists
This list is comprised of some of the most recognizable journalists. Included are notable news anchors, reporters, and print journalists.
| Name | Lifespan | Other Names | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph Pulitzer | 1847-1911 |  | |
| Jacob Riis | 1849-1914 | | |
| W. T. Stead | 1849-1912 | | |
| Charles Dow | 1851-1902 | | |
| Ida Tarbell | 1857-1944 | | |
| Ida B. Wells | 1862-1931 | (Barnett) | |
| Nellie Bly | 1864-1922 | | |
| Marija Jurić Zagorka | 1873-1957 | | |
| Endre Ady | 1877-1919 | | |
| H. L. Mencken | 1880-1956 | | |
| John Reed | 1887-1920 | | |
| Dorothea Lange | 1895-1965 | | |
| Richard Sorge | 1895-1944 | | |
| Margaret Bourke-White | 1904-1971 | | |
| Gareth Jones | 1905-1935 | | |
| Lee Miller | 1907-1977 | | |
| Edward R. Murrow | 1908-1965 | | |
| Martha Gellhorn | 1908-1998 | | |
| Gerda Taro | 1910-1937 | | |
| Ruth Gruber | 1911-2016 | | |
| David Seymour | 1911-1956 | | |
| Robert Capa | 1913-1954 | (Friedmann) | |
| Walter Cronkite | 1916-2009 | | |
| Mike Wallace | 1918-2012 | | |
| W. Eugene Smith | 1918-1978 | | |
| David Brinkley | 1920-2003 | | |
| Elizabeth Hawley | 1923-2018 | | |
| George Plimpton | 1927-2003 | | |
| Barbara Walters | 1929-2022 | | |
| Derek Humphry | 1930- | | |
| Dan Rather | 1931- | | |
| Hunter S. Thompson | 1937-2005 | | |
| Peter Jennings | 1938-2005 | | |
| Beate Klarsfeld | 1939- | | |
| David Frost | 1939-2013 | | |
| Trevor McDonald | 1939- | | |
| Tom Brokaw | 1940- | | |
| Ted Koppel | 1940- | | |
| Charlie Rose | 1942- | | |
| Roger Ebert | 1942-2013 | | |
| Bob Woodward | 1943- | | |
| Geraldo Rivera | 1943- | | |
| Sebastião Salgado | 1944- | | |
| Carl Bernstein | 1944- | | |
| Diane Sawyer | 1945- | | |
| Gene Siskel | 1946-1999 | | |
| Chris Wallace | 1947- | | |
| Wolf Blitzer | 1948- | | |
| Arswendo Atmowiloto | 1948-2019 | | |
| Slavenka Drakulić | 1949- | | |
| Bill O'Reilly | 1949- | | |
| Tim Russert | 1950-2008 | | |
| Arianna Huffington | 1950- | (Stasinopoúlou) | |
| Rush Limbaugh | 1951-2021 | | |
| Vladislav Listyev | 1956-1995 | | |
| Peter R. de Vries | 1956-2021 | | |
| Katie Couric | 1957- | | |
| Amy Goodman | 1957- | | |
| Christiane Amanpour | 1958- | | |
| Daniel Schneidermann | 1958- | | |
| Anna Politkovskaya | 1958-2006 | | |
| Jamal Khashoggi | 1958-2018 | | |
| Keith Olbermann | 1959- | | |
| Lester Holt | 1959- | | |
| Brian Williams | 1959- | | |
| Veronica Guerin | 1959-1996 | | |
| Kevin Carter | 1960-1994 | | |
| Robin Roberts | 1960- | | |
| George Stephanopoulos | 1961- | | |
| Huw Edwards | 1961- | | |
| Sean Hannity | 1961- | | |
| Fareed Zakaria | 1964- | | |
| Glenn Beck | 1964- | | |
| Daphne Caruana Galizia | 1964-2017 | | |
| Boris Dežulović | 1964- | | |
| Piers Morgan | 1965- | | |
| A. O. Scott | 1966- | | |
| Sue Gardner | 1967- | | |
| Anderson Cooper | 1967- | | |
| Tucker Carlson | 1969- | | |
| Ante Tomić | 1970- | | |
| Chris Cuomo | 1970- | | |
| Megyn Kelly | 1970- | | |
| Julian Assange | 1971- | | |
| Rachel Maddow | 1973- | | |
| James Foley | 1973-2014 | | |
| Shereen Bhan | 1976- | | |
| Annechien Steenhuizen | 1977- | | |
| Muntadhar al-Zaidi | 1979- | | |
| Johann Hari | 1979- | | |
| Roman Protasevich | 1995- | (Pratasevič) | |