Ben Franklin
John Peter Zenger (New York Weekly Journal)
Elijah Lovejoy, 1802-1837
Horace Greeley (New York Tribune)
Margaret Fuller, 1810-1850
Mathew Brady, 1823-1896 (photo-journalist)
Benjamin Day (New York Sun “penny press”)
Christopher Perry (Philadelphia Tribune)
William Randolph Hearst
Joseph Pulitzer
Henry R. Luce (Time, Fortune, Life, etc)
Samuel L. Clemens, 1835-1910
Victoria Woodhull, 1838-1927
John H. Murphy (1892, Afro-American)
Jacob Riis, 1849-1914 (documentary photographer)
Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman), 1867-1922
Upton Sinclair
W.E.B. DuBois (1910, Crisis)
William Trotter
H. L. Mencken, 1880-1956
David Sarnoff (creator NBC)
Walter Winchell, 1897-1972 (gossip columnist)
Ernie Pyle, 1900-1945
Dorothea Lange (documentary photographer)
Walter Lippman (The New Republic)
Margaret Bourke-White , 1904-1971 (photo-journalist)
Alice Dunnigan, 1906-1983 (African American press)
Ethel Payne, 1911-1991 (civil rights reporter)
Robert Capa, 1913-1954 (combat photojournalist)
Edward R. Murrow
Walter Cronkite
Robert L. Johnson (Black Entertainment Television)
Marguerite Higgins (war correspondent)
Peter Arnett
Hunter S. Thompson, 1937-2005
Tom Wolfe
Jann Wenner (Rolling Stone)
Katharine Graham, 1917- (Washington Post)
Seymour Hersh, 1937- (investigative reporter)
Carl Bernstein 1944-
Bob Woodward 1943-
Anna Quindlen, 1951-
Oprah Winfrey
Matt Drudge (The Drudge Report)
Paul Krugman (The New York Times)
Mike Wallace (60 minutes)
David Halberstam
Gloria Steinem (Ms. Magazine)
I.F. Stone (The Nation)
Charles Kuralt
Rupert Murdoch
Robert Clyve Maynard
Barbara Walters (The ABC Evening News)
William Safire (The New York Times)
Ted Koppel
Tim Russert
Connie Chung (News anchor)
Tom Brokaw
Dan Rather
Helen Thomas (Washington beat)
Judith Miller
Robert Novak
Peter Jennings
Bernard Shaw
Rush Limbaugh
Wolf Blitzer
Katie Couric
Cokie Roberts
Jim Lehrer
Ira Glass
Anderson Cooper
Fareed Zakaria (Newsweek, CNN)
Michelle Malkin (blogger, Fox News)
Thomas Friedman (New York Times)
Gwen Ifill (PBS)
Mike Allen (The Daily Beast)
Arianna Huffington
Joshua Green (The Atlantic)
Seymour Hersh (The New Yorker)
Michael Moore (documentary director)
Peter Cashmore (blogger, “Mashable”)
Andrew Sullivan (blogger, “the Daily Dish”)
Eric Schlosser
Morgan Spurlock
Christopher Hitchens