Journalism, MOM-O’B
Extra, extra! Although the content and style of journalism and the medium through which it is delivered have varied significantly over the years, journalism has always given us a way to keep up with current events, so that we always have our fingers on the pulse.
Journalism Encyclopedia Articles By Title
Theodor Mommsen was a German historian and writer, famous for his masterpiece, Römische Geschichte (The History......
Harriet Monroe was an American founder and longtime editor of Poetry magazine, which, in the first decade of its......
Charles Edward Montague was an English novelist and journalist noted for writings published in the Manchester Guardian......
Eugenio Montale was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor, and translator who won the Nobel Prize for Literature......
Charlest, count de Montalember was an orator, politician, and historian who was a leader in the struggle against......
Claude Joseph Goldsmid Montefiore was a Jewish theologian and Reform leader; he was the first modern Jew to write......
José Bento Monteiro Lobato was a writer and publisher, forerunner of the Modernist movement in Brazilian literature.......
Michael Moorcock is a British science fiction and fantasy author who, as editor of the magazine New Worlds, led......
Ely Moore was an American journalist and politician who represented the interests of labour in the U.S. Congress.......
Marianne Moore was an American poet whose work distilled moral and intellectual insights from the close and accurate......
Dom Moraes was an editor, essayist, biographer, and inveterate traveler who was one of the best-known English-language......
Alberto Moravia was an Italian journalist, short-story writer, and novelist known for his fictional portrayals......
Hannah More was an English religious writer, best known as a writer of popular tracts and as an educator of the......
Paul Elmer More was an American scholar and conservative critic, one of the leading exponents of the New Humanism......
Mariano Moreno was a patriot who was the intellectual and political leader of Argentina’s movement for independence.......
Piers Morgan is a British journalist and media figure who attracted controversy as a tabloid editor for his aggressive......
Jean Morin was a French theologian and biblical scholar who produced major studies on the history and discipline......
Stanley Morison was an English typographer, scholar, and historian of printing, particularly remembered for his......
Christopher Morley was an American writer whose versatile works are lighthearted, vigorous displays of the English......
Manuel Moschopoulos was a Byzantine grammarian and critic during the reign (1282–1328) of Andronicus II Palaeologus.......
Howard Moss was an American poet and editor who was the poetry editor of The New Yorker magazine for almost 40......
Andrew Motion is a British poet, biographer, and novelist who was especially noted for his narrative poetry. He......
Ellen Louise Chandler Moulton was an American writer, critic, and hostess of the late 19th century, particularly......
Bill Moyers is an American journalist who was especially known for his television programs that aired on the Public......
Es’kia Mphahlele was a novelist, essayist, short-story writer, and teacher whose autobiography, Down Second Avenue......
Henry Muddiman was an English journalist who supported the Royalist cause during the Civil Wars and became a privileged......
Malcolm Muggeridge was a British journalist and social critic. A lecturer in Cairo in the late 1920s, he worked......
Mukai Kyorai was a Japanese haiku poet of the early Tokugawa period (1603–1867) who was one of the first disciples......
Paul Muldoon is a Northern Irish poet whose oeuvre covers both intensely personal and political terrain—from his......
Aïda Muluneh is an Ethiopian photographer, educator, and entrepreneur known for her Afrofuturist photography that......
Anthony Munday was an English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator. The son of a draper, Munday began his......
Dmitry Muratov is a Russian journalist who, as editor in chief of the newspaper Novaya Gazeta (1995– ; “New Gazette”),......
Judith Sargent Stevens Murray was an American writer during the early republic, remembered largely for her essays......
Les Murray was an Australian poet and essayist who in such meditative, lyrical poems as “Noonday Axeman” and “Sydney......
Sir James Murray was a Scottish lexicographer and the first editor (from 1879) of A New English Dictionary on Historical......
Edward R. Murrow was a radio and television broadcaster who was the most influential and esteemed figure in American......
John Middleton Murry was an English journalist and critic whose romantic and biographical approach to literature......
Willie Musarurwa was a Zimbabwean journalist who campaigned against oppression by both Rhodesia’s white minority......
Samuel Musgrave was an English classical scholar and physician. Educated at the University of Oxford (B.A., 1754;......
Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj was a scholar who was one of the chief authorities on the Ḥadīth, accounts of the sayings......
Luis Muñoz Marín was a statesman who served four four-year terms as the elected governor of Puerto Rico. Early......
Max Müller was a German scholar of comparative language, religion, and mythology. Müller’s special areas of interest......
James Nachtwey is an American photojournalist noted for his unflinching and moving images of wars, conflicts, and......
MacVey Napier was a Scottish lawyer, first professor of conveyancing at the University of Edinburgh, who was an......
R.K. Narayan was one of the finest authors of Indian writing in English. His stories often explore themes such......
Adam Naruszewicz was a Polish poet and historian who was the first Polish historian to use modern methods of scholarship.......
Petroleum V. Nasby was an American humorist who had considerable influence on public issues during and after the......
Thomas Nashe was a pamphleteer, poet, dramatist, and author of The Unfortunate Traveller; or, The Life of Jacke......
Marchamont Needham was a British journalist and publisher of the Mercurius Britanicus, an anti-Royalist commentary......
Nikolay Alekseyevich Nekrasov was a Russian poet and journalist whose work centred on the theme of compassion for......
William Rockhill Nelson was an American journalist, editor, and publisher who helped found The Kansas City Star......
Pietro Nenni was a journalist and politician who was leader of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), twice foreign......
Amado Nervo was a poet and diplomat, generally considered the most distinguished Mexican poet of the late 19th-......
Nancy Newhall was an American photography critic, conservationist, and editor who was an important contributor......
St. John Henry Newman ; canonized October 13, 2019; feast day October 9) was an influential churchman and man of......
news agency, organization that gathers, writes, and distributes news from around a nation or the world to newspapers,......
Alfred Newton was a British zoologist, one of the foremost ornithologists of his day. Newton studied at Magdalene......
Jordan Kush Ngubane was a Zulu novelist, scholar, and editor for the South African publications Ilanga lase Natal......
Clarina Irene Howard Nichols was a 19th-century American journalist and reformer, a determined and effective campaigner......
John Nichols was a writer, printer, and antiquary who, through numerous volumes of literary anecdotes, made an......
Mary Gove Nichols was an American writer and advocate of women’s rights and health reform. Nichols is best known......
Eliza Jane Poitevent Holbrook Nicholson was an American poet and journalist, the first woman publisher of a daily......
Friedrich Nicolai was a writer and bookseller who, with Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Moses Mendelssohn, was a leader......
Sir Harold Nicolson was a British diplomat and author of more than 125 books, including political essays, travel......
Hezekiah Niles was an editor and newspaper publisher who was one of the foremost figures in early American journalism.......
Lewis Nkosi was a South African author, critic, journalist, and broadcaster. After attending a technical college......
António Nobre was a Portuguese poet whose verse expresses subjective lyricism and an aesthetic point of view. Nobre......
Victor Noir was a journalist whose death at the hands of Prince Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, a first cousin of Emperor......
Cees Nooteboom is a Dutch writer known for his novels and travel writing. Nooteboom was educated at an Augustinian......
Rui de Noronha was an African poet and journalist whose work influenced many younger writers. Noronha, born of......
Douglass C. North was an American economist, recipient, with Robert W. Fogel, of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Economic......
Charles Eliot Norton was an American scholar and man of letters, an idealist and reformer by temperament, who exhibited......
Natalie Nougayrède is a French journalist who served as executive editor and managing editor of the flagship French......
Vincent Novello was an English composer, conductor, and founder of the Novello music publishing house. From 1797......
Nikolay Ivanovich Novikov was a Russian writer, philanthropist, and Freemason whose activities were intended to......
George Henry Falkiner Nuttall was an American-born British biologist and physician who contributed substantially......
Bill Nye was a journalist and one of the major American humorists in the last half of the 19th century. In 1852......
Onuora Nzekwu was a Nigerian teacher, writer, and editor who explored the internal conflicts inherent in the relationship......
C.K. Ogden was a British writer and linguist who originated Basic English (q.v.), a simplified system of the English......
Christopher Okigbo was a Nigerian poet who is one of the best and most widely anthologized African poets. After......
Keith Olbermann is an American television journalist, liberal political commentator, and sportscaster perhaps best......
Merlin Olsen was an American gridiron football player, sports announcer, and actor who was one of the most extraordinary......
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was an American first lady (1961–63), who was the wife of John F. Kennedy, 35th president......
Dato’ Onn bin Jaafar was a Malayan political figure who played a leading role in the Merdeka (independence) movement......
Martin Opitz was a German poet and literary theorist who introduced foreign literary models into German poetry......
Alfred Richard Orage was an influential English editor and social thinker. Orage became an elementary school teacher......
Origen was the most important theologian and biblical scholar of the early Greek church. His greatest work is the......
José Ortega y Gasset was a philosopher and humanist who greatly influenced the cultural and literary renaissance......
José Duarte Ramalho Ortigão was a Portuguese essayist and journalist known for his mastery of Portuguese prose......
Carl von Ossietzky was a German journalist and pacifist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace for 1935. In 1912......
Wolfgang Ostwald was a German chemist who devoted his life as a teacher, researcher, and editor to the advancement......
Harrison Gray Otis was an American newspaper publisher who directed the Los Angeles Times from 1886 until after......
Mel Ott was an American professional baseball player, manager, and broadcaster who played his entire 22-year career......
Yambo Ouologuem was a Malian writer who was highly acclaimed for his first novel, Le Devoir de violence (1968;......
Richard Overton was an English pamphleteer and a Leveler leader during the English Civil Wars and Commonwealth.......
Robert Dale Owen was an American social reformer and politician. The son of the English reformer Robert Owen, Robert......
Conor Cruise O’Brien was an Irish diplomat, politician, educator, and journalist who was one of Ireland’s most......
Flann O’Brien was an Irish novelist, dramatist, and, as Myles na gCopaleen, a columnist for the Irish Times newspaper......
Tim O’Brien is an American novelist noted for his writings about American soldiers in the Vietnam War. His best-known......
William O’Brien was an Irish journalist and politician who was for several years second only to Charles Stewart......