Journalist

A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues and people.

19th-century journalists

• William Cowper Brann (1855-1898) - colorful editor of the Iconoclast in Waco, Texas.
• Nellie Bly (1865-1922) - undercover reporter
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge - political essays, poetry, and reportage
• Charles Dickens (1812-1870) - started as a shorthand writer logging debates in the courts and Houses of Parliament before becoming a Parliamentary journalist
• Henry Dunckley (1823- 1896), editor of Manchester Examiner and Times
• Pierce Egan (1772-1849) - early sportswriter and reporter on popular culture
• Rudyard Kipling (1865-1956) - newspaper editor and correspondent in India
• Jacob Riis (1849-1914) - journalist and slum reformer
• Anne Newport Royall - crusading reporter, author, newspaper publisher, first journalist to publish an interview with a sitting US President
• George Augustus Henry Sala (1828-1895) - editor and columnist