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| Joseph Addison (May 1, 1672 – June 17, 1719) | co-founder of The Spectator magazine |
| James Gordon Bennett Jr. (May 10, 1841 – May 14, 1918) | a newspaper publisher and sports enthusiast |
| Richard Steele (1672 - September 1, 1729) | founder of The Spectator Magazine |
| Nellie Bly (May 5, 1864 - January 27, 1922) | early investigative journalist, she pioneered undercover reporting |
| William Brann (1855–1898) | was an American journalist |
| Samuel Coleridge (October 21, 1772 – July 25, 1834) | best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan |
| Charles Dickens - (February 7, 1812-June 9, 1870) | was a prolific writer who wrote A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist |
| Pierce Egan (1772-1849) | journalist and sports writer; wrote first about boxing in his serial publication |
| Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936) | was a British author and poet; best known for the children's story The Jungle Book |
| Robert Abbott (1870 - February 29, 1940) | was an African American lawyer and newspaper publisher |
| Anne Royall (1769 — 1854) | by some accounts considered the first professional woman journalist in the United States |
| George Sala (November 24, 1828 – December 8, 1895), | English journalist; in 1856 sent to Russia as a special correspondent |
| Winston Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) | important leader in British and world history; won the 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| Martha Gellhorn (8 November 1908 - 15 February 1998) | considered one of the greatest war correspondents of the 20th century |
| Will Lang (1914-1968) | wrote for TIME/LIFE on a regular basis. |
| Walter Winchell (April 7, 1897 – February 20, 1972) | an American newspaper and radio commentator, invented the gossip column |
| George Bernard Shaw (July 26, 1856 – November 2, 1950) | Playwrite; is the only person ever to have won both a Nobel Prize (Literature in 1925) and an Academy Award (Best Screenplay for Pygmalion in 1938). |
| William Randolph Hearst (April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) | was an American newspaper magnate; owner of the San Franciso Examiner |
| Richard Outcault (January 14, 1863-September 25, 1928) | was an American comic strip scriptwriter, sketcher and painter; creator of the series The Yellow Kid, and is considered the inventor of the modern comic strip |
| Janet Cooke | was an American journalist who became infamous when she won a Pulitzer Prize for a fabricated story that she wrote for The Washington Post |
| Walt Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) | is particularly noted for his animation and the creation of Mickey Mouse |
| Maureen Dowd (January 14, 1952) | won a Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for her series of columns on the Monica Lewinsky scandal. |
| Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811–November 29, 1872) | was an American newspaper editor, reformer and politician |
| Ida Tarbel (November 5, 1857–January 6, 1944) | her famous exposé of the business practices of the Standard Oil Company established her as a pioneer of investigative journalism |
| Joseph Pulitzer (April 10, 1847 – October 29, 1911) | was an American publisher best known for posthumously establishing the Pulitzer Prizes; began the New York World newspaper |
| E. B. White (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985) | was an American essayist, author, and noted prose stylist. He is most famous today for a writers' style guide, The Elements of Style and Charlotte's Web. |
| William F. Buckley (born November 24, 1925), | journalist; founded the prominent conservative political magazine National Review in 1955 and the award-winning television show Firing Line in 1966. |
| Daniel Pearl (October 10, 1963–January 30, 2002) | a Jewish American journalist; was kidnapped and murdered in Karachi, Pakistan, while investigating Al Qaeda-ISI links |
| Daniel Defoe (1660 [?] – 1731) | was an English writer, journalist and spy, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe |
| Benjamin Day (1810 – 1889) | was a U.S. illustrator and printer. He published the original New York Sun, the first Penny Press newspaper |
| Henry Raymond | The New York Times was founded on September 18, 1851 by this man;founding director of the Associated Press in 1856 |
