Journalism, BOY-CLA
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
Kay Boyle was an American writer and political activist noted throughout her career as a keen and scrupulous student......
William Bradford was a printer who issued one of the first American almanacs, Kalendarium Pennsilvaniense or America’s......
Ben Bradlee was an American journalist and newspaper editor who set exacting standards and promoted an aggressive......
Ed Bradley was an American broadcast journalist, known especially for his 25-year association with the televised......
Myra Bradwell was an American lawyer and editor who was involved in several landmark cases concerning the legal......
Rubem Braga was a Brazilian journalist and author, best known for his numerous volumes of crônicas, short prose......
Kazimierz Brandys was a Polish novelist and essayist remembered both for his early espousal of Socialist Realism......
John Randall Bratby was a British painter who rose to prominence in the 1950s as a member of the Kitchen Sink School,......
Bernardas Brazdžionis was a leading Lithuanian poet, editor, critic, and—under his pseudonym—author of popular......
Jimmy Breslin was an American columnist and novelist who became known as a tough-talking voice of his native Queens,......
André Breton was a French poet, essayist, critic, and editor, chief promoter and one of the founders of the Surrealist......
Willy Bretscher was a Swiss editor, from 1933 to 1967, of Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) of Zürich, one of the world’s......
Emily Pomona Edson Briggs was an American journalist, one of the first women to acquire a national reputation in......
Bernhard ten Brink was a scholar whose research stimulated a revival of British and German study of Geoffrey Chaucer’s......
David Brinkley was an American television reporter known for anchoring several long-running, influential news programs.......
Fernand de Brinon was a French journalist and politician who became a leading advocate of collaboration with Nazi......
Arthur Brisbane was a U.S. newspaper editor and writer, known as the master of the big, blaring headline and of......
Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus was a German publisher and editor of a respected German-language encyclopaedia. In 1808......
Max Brod was a German-language novelist and essayist known primarily as the friend of Franz Kafka and as the editor......
Harold Brodkey was an American novelist and short-story writer whose near-autobiographical fiction avoids plot,......
Tom Brokaw is a former television journalist who is best known for anchoring the NBC Nightly News from 1982 to......
Alexander Brome was a Royalist poet who wrote drinking songs and satirical verses against the Rump Parliament in......
David Brooks is a Canadian-born American journalist and cultural and political commentator. Considered a moderate......
Pierre Brossolette was a leading member of the French Resistance during the German occupation in World War II.......
Heywood Broun was an American journalist noted for liberal social and political opinions. Broun attended Harvard......
George Brown was a Canadian journalist and politician who was committed to federalism and to weakening the powers......
Helen Gurley Brown was an American writer and editor whose upbeat, stylish publications, beginning in the mid-20th......
Sterling Brown was an influential African-American teacher, literary critic, and poet whose poetry was rooted in......
Tina Brown is an English American magazine editor and writer whose exacting sensibilities and prescient understanding......
William G. Brownlow was the editor of the last pro-Union newspaper in the antebellum South of the United States......
William Cullen Bryant was a poet of nature, best remembered for “Thanatopsis,” and editor for 50 years of the New......
Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, 1st Baronet was an English writer and genealogist, chiefly important as the editor......
Philotheos Bryennios was an Eastern Church theologian and metropolitan who discovered the Didachē manuscript, an......
Bryher was a British novelist, poet, and critic, best known for her historical fiction. She was also a cofounder......
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov was a poet, essayist, and editor, one of the founders and leading members of Russian......
Pat Buchanan is a paleoconservative American journalist, politician, commentator, and author who held positions......
Art Buchwald was a U.S. humour writer and columnist. Buchwald moved to Paris in 1948. His popular original column—reviews......
William F. Buckley, Jr. was a versatile American editor, author, and conservative gadfly who became an important......
Eustace Budgell was an English writer who, apart from Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, was the principal contributor......
Sophus Bugge was a philologist who pioneered in the collection and study of Norwegian folk songs, gathered a massive......
al-Bukhārī was one of the greatest Muslim compilers and scholars of Hadith (the recorded corpus of the sayings......
Ed Bullins was an American playwright, novelist, poet, and journalist who emerged as one of the leading and most......
Henry Cuyler Bunner was a poet, novelist, and editor whose verse and fiction primarily depict the scenes and people......
Guy Burgess was a British diplomat who spied for the Soviet Union in World War II and early in the Cold War period.......
Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham was an English newspaper proprietor who virtually created the London Daily......
Robert Burns was the national poet of Scotland, who wrote lyrics and songs in Scots and in English. He was also......
Ita Buttrose is an Australian journalist, editor, and businesswoman who was the founding editor (1972–75) of the......
Lord Byron was a British Romantic poet and satirist whose poetry and personality captured the imagination of Europe.......
Joseph Bédier was a scholar whose work on the Tristan and Isolde and the Roland epics made invaluable contributions......
Georg Büchner was a German dramatist, a major forerunner of the Expressionist school of playwriting of the early......
Abraham Cahan was a journalist, reformer, and novelist who for more than 40 years served as editor of the New York......
James M. Cain was a novelist whose violent, sexually obsessed, and relentlessly paced melodramas epitomized the......
Roberto Calasso was an Italian editor, publisher, and writer whose book Le nozze di Cadmo e Armonia (1988; The......
Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist, short-story writer, and novelist whose whimsical and imaginative fables......
Joachim Camerarius was a German classical scholar and Lutheran theologian who mediated between Protestants and......
David Campbell was an Australian lyrical poet whose work displays his wartime experiences and sensitivity to nature......
John W. Campbell was an American science-fiction writer, considered the father of modern science fiction. Campbell,......
Wilfred Campbell was a Canadian poet, best remembered for Lake Lyrics and Other Poems (1889), a volume of poetry......
Estanislao del Campo was an Argentine poet and journalist whose Fausto is one of the major works of gaucho poetry.......
Albert Camus was a French novelist, essayist, and playwright, best known for such novels as L’Étranger (1942; The......
Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist who introduced new methods of investigation and analysis to phytogeography,......
Cass Canfield was an American publisher and editor noted for his long association with Harper & Brothers (later......
Robert Capa was a photographer whose images of war made him one of the greatest photojournalists of the 20th century.......
Vincenzo Cardarelli was an Italian poet, essayist, literary critic, and journalist whose traditional, lyrical verse......
Richard Carlile was a radical English journalist who was a notable champion of the freedom of the press. Although......
Tucker Carlson is an American conservative pundit and popular cable television talk show host, recognized for his......
Anna Ella Carroll was a political pamphleteer and constitutional theorist who claimed to have played a role in......
Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French photographer whose humane, spontaneous photographs helped establish photojournalism......
Elisabeth Luther Cary was an American art and literary critic, best remembered as the art critic of The New York......
Isaac Casaubon was a French classical scholar and theologian who was one of the leading scholars of the era. Casaubon......
W.J. Cash was an American author, editor, and journalist, best known for his single book, The Mind of the South......
António Feliciano de Castilho was a poet and translator, a central figure in the Portuguese Romantic movement.......
Carlo Cattaneo was an Italian publicist and intellectual whose writings significantly shaped the Risorgimento and......
James McKeen Cattell was a U.S. psychologist who oriented U.S. psychology toward use of objective experimental......
Bruce Catton was an American journalist and historian noted for his books on the American Civil War. As a child......
Felice Cavallotti was a left-wing, antimonarchist journalist and political leader, sometimes called Italy’s “Poet......
Bennett Cerf was an American publisher and editor. With Donald S. Klopfer, in 1925 Cerf acquired the Modern Library......
Richard Challoner was a leader of English Roman Catholics whose revision of the Douai-Reims version of the Bible......
Alexander Chalmers was a Scottish editor and biographer best known for his General Biographical Dictionary (1812–17),......
John Graham Chambers was a British sportsman and journalist who in 1867 devised the Marquess of Queensberry rules,......
Whittaker Chambers was an American journalist, Communist Party member, Soviet agent, and a principal figure in......
Maria Weston Chapman was an American abolitionist who was the principal lieutenant of the radical antislavery leader......
Robert Charbonneau was a French Canadian novelist and literary critic, well known for promoting the autonomy of......
N.G. Chernyshevsky was a radical journalist and politician who greatly influenced the young Russian intelligentsia......
G.K. Chesterton was an English critic and author of verse, essays, novels, and short stories, known also for his......
Francis J. Child was an American scholar and educator important for his systematic study, collecting, and cataloging......
Lydia Maria Child was an American author of antislavery works that had great influence in her time. Born into an......
Hugh Chisholm was an English newspaper and encyclopaedia editor noted for his editorship of the 11th edition of......
Barbara Christian was a Caribbean American educator and feminist critic who attempted to define an African American......
Connie Chung is an American broadcast journalist who helped break down gender barriers in the late 20th century......
Jennie Jerome Churchill was an American-born society figure, remembered chiefly as the wife of Lord Randolph Churchill......
Randolph Churchill was an English author, journalist, and politician, the only son of British prime minister Winston......
André de Chénier was a poet and political journalist, generally considered the greatest French poet of the 18th......
citizen journalism, journalism that is conducted by people who are not professional journalists but who disseminate......
Hélène Cixous is a French feminist critic and theorist, novelist, and playwright. Cixous’s first language was German.......
Ada Clare was an American writer and actress remembered for her charm and wit and for her lively journalistic contributions.......
John Pepper Clark was the most lyrical of the Nigerian poets, whose poetry celebrates the physical landscape of......
Charles Cowden Clarke was an English editor and critic best known for his work on William Shakespeare. A friend......
Adrienne Clarkson is a Canadian statesman, author, and television personality. She was governor-general of Canada......
Matthias Claudius was a German poet, most notable for Der Mond ist aufgegangen (“The Moon Has Risen”) and editor......