Notable Journalists

This list is comprised of some of the most recognizable journalists. Included are notable news anchors, reporters, and print journalists.
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NameLifespanOther Names
Joseph Pulitzer1847-1911
Jacob Riis1849-1914
W. T. Stead1849-1912(William, Thomas)
Charles Dow1851-1902
Ida Tarbell1857-1944(Minerva)
Ida B. Wells1862-1931(Bell)
Nellie Bly1864-1922
Marija Jurić Zagorka1873-1957
Endre Ady1877-1919
H. L. Mencken1880-1956(Henry, Louis)
John Reed1887-1920(Jack, Silas)
Dorothea Lange1895-1965
Richard Sorge1895-1944
Margaret Bourke-White1904-1971
Gareth Jones1905-1935
Lee Miller1907-1977
Edward R. Murrow1908-1965
Martha Gellhorn1908-1998
Gerda Taro1910-1937
Ruth Gruber1911-2016
David Seymour1911-1956
Robert Capa1913-1954(Endre, Ernő)
Walter Cronkite1916-2009
Mike Wallace1918-2012(Myron, Leon)
W. Eugene Smith1918-1978(William)
David Brinkley1920-2003
Elizabeth Hawley1923-2018(Ann)
George Plimpton1927-2003(Ames)
Barbara Walters1929-2022(Jill)
Derek Humphry1930-
Dan Rather1931-(Daniel)
Hunter S. Thompson1937-2005(Stockton)
Peter Jennings1938-2005
Beate Klarsfeld1939-
David Frost1939-2013
Trevor McDonald1939-
Tom Brokaw1940-
Ted Koppel1940-(Edward)
Charlie Rose1942-(Charles)
Roger Ebert1942-2013
Bob Woodward1943-
Geraldo Rivera1943-
Sebastião Salgado1944-
Carl Bernstein1944-
Diane Sawyer1945-
Gene Siskel1946-1999
Chris Wallace1947-(Christopher)
Wolf Blitzer1948-
Arswendo Atmowiloto1948-2019(Sarwendo)
Slavenka Drakulić1949-
Bill O'Reilly1949-
Tim Russert1950-2008(Timothy)
Arianna Huffington1950-(Ariadnē, Anna)
Rush Limbaugh1951-2021
Greta Van Susteren1954-(Conway)
Vladislav Listyev1956-1995
Peter R. de Vries1956-2021(Rudolf)
Katie Couric1957-(Katherine)
Amy Goodman1957-
Christiane Amanpour1958-
Daniel Schneidermann1958-
Anna Politkovskaya1958-2006
Jamal Khashoggi1958-2018
Keith Olbermann1959-
Lester Holt1959-
Brian Williams1959-
Veronica Guerin1959-1996
Kevin Carter1960-1994
Robin Roberts1960-
George Stephanopoulos1961-
Huw Edwards1961-
Sean Hannity1961-
Fareed Zakaria1964-
Glenn Beck1964-
Hoda Kotb1964-
Daphne Caruana Galizia1964-2017
Boris Dežulović1964-
Piers Morgan1965-
A. O. Scott1966-(Anthony, Oliver)
Sue Gardner1967-
Anderson Cooper1967-
Tucker Carlson1969-(McNear)
Ante Tomić1970-
Chris Cuomo1970-(Christopher)
Megyn Kelly1970-
Julian Assange1971-
Rachel Maddow1973-
James Foley1973-2014
Shereen Bhan1976-
Annechien Steenhuizen1977-
Muntadhar al-Zaidi1979-
Johann Hari1979-(Eduard)
Jenna Bush Hager1981-(Welch)
Roman Protasevich1995-(Raman)