Journalist

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

20th-century print journalists

• Adams (1871–1958) - American investigative journalist
• Winston Churchill (1874-1965) war correspondent in the Boer War, captured by the Boers
• Claud Cockburn (1904-1981) radical Irish journalist
• C.P. Connolly (1863-1935) radical American investigative journalist associated for many years with Collier's Weekly.
• Paul Foot (1938-2004)
• Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998) war correspondent
• Carl Gordon (1931-2002) - West of Scotland based Journalist and columnist for The Glasgow Herald
• Emily Hahn (1905-1997) - wrote extensively on China
• John L. Hess (1917-2005) - journalist, food critic for the New York Times
• Pauline Kael (1919-2001) - Film critic for The New Yorker
• Andrew Kopkind (1935-1994) - radical American journalist wrote extensively social movements in the 1960s
• A.J. Liebling (1904-1963) American journalist closely associated with The New Yorker
• Walter Lippmann (1889-1974)
• Jonathan Meades
• H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) - essayist, critic, and editor of The Baltimore Sun.
• George Orwell (1903-1950) - reported on poverty, misery, and the Spanish Civil War
• Robert Palmer (1945-1997) - first full-time, chief pop music critic for The New York Times, Rolling Stone contributing editor
• William Rees-Mogg - editor of The Times newspaper from 1967 to 1981
• James ("Scotty") Reston (1909-1995) - political commentator for the New York Times
• Edward Said (1935-2003) - essayist, Palestinan activist
• George Seldes (1890-1995) - American journalist, editor and publisher of In Fact.
• George Bernard Shaw - better known as a playwright, but influential as a music writer and wrote other forms of journalism
• Randy Shilts - reporter for The Advocate and San Francisco Chronicle.
• Edgar Snow, pro-socialist journalist and writer, chronicled the Chinese revolution
• I.F. Stone (1907-1989), investigative journalist, publisher of I.F. Stone's Weekly
• Anna Louise Strong, pro-socialist journalist and writer
• Walter Winchell (1897-1972), American political columnist, radio broadcaster