Journalism, CLA-DRU
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
Laurence Claxton was a preacher and pamphleteer, leader of the radical English religious sect known as the Ranters.......
Georges Clemenceau was a statesman and journalist who was a dominant figure in the French Third Republic and, as......
Ta-Nehisi Coates gained a large following for his essays and journalism exploring contemporary race relations in......
Frank I. Cobb was an American journalist who succeeded Joseph Pulitzer as editor of the New York World and who......
Irvin S. Cobb was an American journalist and humorist best known for his colloquial handling of familiar situations......
William Cobbett was an English popular journalist who played an important political role as a champion of traditional......
Frank Moore Colby was an American encyclopaedia editor and essayist. Early in his career Colby taught history and......
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English lyrical poet, critic, and philosopher. His Lyrical Ballads, written with......
Sara Coleridge was an English translator and author of children’s verse, known primarily as the editor of the works......
Schuyler Colfax was the 17th vice president of the United States (1869–73) in the Republican administration of......
Norman Jay Colman was a farm journalist who, as U.S. commissioner of agriculture, so enlarged the scope and activities......
columnist, the author or editor of a regular signed contribution to a newspaper, magazine, or Web site, usually......
Giovanni Comisso was an Italian author of letters and of lyric and autobiographical novels. Comisso earned a law......
Henry Condell was an English actor who was one of the chief movers in sponsoring and preparing the First Folio......
Cyril Connolly was an English critic, novelist, and man of letters, founder and editor of Horizon, a magazine of......
Jack Conroy was a leftist American writer best known for his contributions to “proletarian literature,” fiction......
Alistair Cooke was a British-born American journalist and commentator, best known for his lively and insightful......
Anderson Cooper is an American television journalist and entertainer best known as the anchor of the Cable News......
Kent Cooper was an American journalist who achieved prominence as executive director of the Associated Press (AP).......
Jack Cope was a South African writer best known for his short stories and novels about South African life. Cope......
Joaquim Dias Cordeiro da Matta was an Angolan poet, novelist, journalist, pedagogue, historian, philologist, and......
Howard Cosell was an American sportscaster who reached the pinnacle of his career as an audacious commentator on......
Ann Coulter is an American conservative political commentator and author who frequently courts controversy with......
Douglas Coupland is a Canadian journalist and novelist best known for his observations on modern-day American culture......
Katie Couric is an American broadcast journalist best known as the longtime cohost of NBC’s Today show and as the......
Paul-Louis Courier was a French classical scholar and pamphleteer, remembered for his brilliant style and antimonarchist......
Norman Cousins was an American essayist and editor, long associated with the Saturday Review. Cousins attended......
Malcolm Cowley was an American literary critic and social historian who chronicled the writers of the “Lost Generation”......
Edward Gordon Craig was an English actor, theatre director-designer, producer, and theorist who influenced the......
Sir William Alexander Craigie was a Scottish lexicographer and language and literature scholar who was joint editor......
R.S. Crane was an American literary critic who was a leading figure of the Neo-Aristotelian Chicago school. His......
Thomas Cranmer was the first Protestant archbishop of Canterbury (1533–56), adviser to the English kings Henry......
José Craveirinha was a Mozambican journalist, story writer, and poet. Craveirinha was the son of a Portuguese father......
George Creel was an American writer and newspaperman who, as head of the U.S. publicity bureau during World War......
Hugh Paulin Cressy was an English Benedictine monk, historian, apologist, and spiritual writer noted for his editorship......
Thomas Crofton Croker was an Irish antiquary whose collections of songs and legends formed a storehouse for writers......
George Croly was an Irish writer and Anglican clergyman, perhaps best known as the author of several hymn lyrics,......
Herbert David Croly was an American author, editor, and political philosopher, founder of the magazine The New......
Jane Cunningham Croly was an English-born American journalist and clubwoman whose popular writings and socially......
Walter Cronkite was an American journalist and pioneer of television news programming who became known as “the......
Stanley Crouch was an American journalist and critic noted for his range of interests and for his outspoken essays......
Bosley Crowther was an American journalist and film critic who authored some 200 film reviews each year for The......
Géza Csáth was a Hungarian short-story writer and music critic. He was a leading figure in the renaissance of Hungarian......
Jacques Cujas was a French jurist and classical scholar whose work on Roman law was part of the humanist revival......
Allan Cunningham was a Scottish poet, a member of the brilliant circle of writers that included Thomas De Quincey,......
Ève Curie was a French and American concert pianist, journalist, and diplomat, a daughter of Pierre Curie and Marie......
Allen Curnow was one of the major modern poets of New Zealand. The son of an Anglican clergyman, Curnow briefly......
Ann Curry is an American journalist and television news reporter and anchor who was best known for her role as......
George William Curtis was a U.S. author, editor, and leader in civil service reform. Early in life Curtis spent......
Louis-Ferdinand Céline was a French writer and physician who, while admired for his talent, is better known for......
Anne Dacier was a classical commentator, translator, and editor, famous throughout Europe for her translations......
Daigak Guksa was a Korean Buddhist priest who founded the Ch’ŏnt’ae sect of Buddhism. A son of the Koryŏ king Munjong,......
Charles A. Dana was an American journalist who became a national figure as editor of the New York Sun. In 1839......
Mahmoud Darwish was a Palestinian poet and author who gave voice to the struggles of the Palestinian people. His......
Rubén Darío was an influential Nicaraguan poet, journalist, and diplomat. As a leader of the Spanish American literary......
Léon Daudet was a French journalist and novelist, the most virulent and bitterly satirical polemicist of his generation......
Bruce Davidson is an American photographer and filmmaker whose emotionally charged images frequently convey the......
Robertson Davies was a novelist and playwright whose works offer penetrating observations on Canadian provincialism......
Elmer Davis was a news broadcaster and writer, director of the U.S. Office of War Information during World War......
Richard Harding Davis was a U.S. author of romantic novels and short stories and the best known reporter of his......
George Geoffrey Dawson was an English journalist, editor of The Times from 1912 to 1919 and from 1923 until his......
Dorothy Day was an American journalist and Roman Catholic reformer, cofounder of the Catholic Worker newspaper,......
Edmondo De Amicis was a novelist, short-story writer, poet, and author of popular travel books and children’s stories.......
Paul de Man was a Belgian-born literary critic and theorist, along with Jacques Derrida one of the two major proponents......
Donna de Varona is an American athlete and sportscaster who, after a record-breaking amateur career as a swimmer,......
Bernard De Voto was an American novelist, journalist, historian, and critic, best known for his works on American......
Below is a list of notable deaths in 2024, arranged in chronological order. (The age of the individual is in...
Daniel Defoe was an English novelist, pamphleteer, and journalist, known as the author of Robinson Crusoe (1719–22)......
Thomas Dekker was an English dramatist and writer of prose pamphlets who is particularly known for his lively depictions......
John Thaddeus Delane was the editor of The Times of London for 36 years. Delane, the second son of a distinguished......
Miguel Delibes was a Spanish novelist, essayist, and journalist who wrote widely of travel, the outdoors, sport,......
Floyd Dell was a novelist and radical journalist whose fiction examined the changing mores in sex and politics......
Thomas Deloney was a writer of ballads, pamphlets, and prose stories that form the earliest English popular fiction.......
Joseph Dennie was an essayist and editor who was a major literary figure in the United States in the early 19th......
Ovid Densușianu was a folklorist, philologist, and poet who introduced trends of European modernism into Romanian......
Émile Deschamps was a poet prominent in the development of Romanticism. Deschamps’s literary debut came in 1818,......
Camille Desmoulins was one of the most influential journalists and pamphleteers of the French Revolution. The son......
Conrad Theodor van Deventer was a Dutch jurist and statesman whose article “Een eereschuld” (“A Debt of Honour”)......
Diane di Prima was an American poet, one of the few women of the Beat movement to attain prominence. After attending......
Charles Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian era. His many volumes......
Denis Diderot was a French man of letters and philosopher who, from 1745 to 1772, served as chief editor of the......
Richard Dimbleby was a pioneer radio news reporter and the first of Britain’s great broadcast journalists. He was......
Birago Diop was a Senegalese poet and recorder of traditional folktales and legends of the Wolof people. Diop received......
Milovan Djilas was a prolific political writer and former Yugoslav communist official remembered for his disillusionment......
E.L. Doctorow was an American novelist known for his skillful manipulation of traditional genres. Doctorow graduated......
John V. Dodge was an American editor and publishing executive of the Encyclopædia Britannica. A graduate of Northwestern......
Mary Abigail Dodge was an American essayist and editor whose writings included works both of homely wit and in......
Mary Mapes Dodge was an American author of children’s books and the first editor of St. Nicholas magazine. As the......
Robert Dodsley was a British author, London bookseller, publisher, playwright, and editor who was influential in......
Alfred Domett was a writer, poet, politician, and prime minister of New Zealand (1862–63), whose idealization of......
Sam Donaldson is an American television journalist best known for his long and distinguished career at ABC (the......
Thomas Aloysius Dorgan was an American journalist, boxing authority, and cartoonist credited with inventing a variety......
Kenny Dorham was an American jazz trumpeter, a pioneer of bebop noted for the beauty of his tone and for his lyricism.......
James Owen Dorsey was an American ethnologist known principally for his linguistic and ethnographic studies of......
Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a Russian novelist and short-story writer whose psychological penetration into the darkest......
Frederick Douglass was an African American abolitionist, orator, newspaper publisher, and author who is famous......
Charles Henry Dow was an American journalist who cofounded Dow Jones & Company, a financial news service, and The......
Maureen Dowd is an American reporter and Pulitzer Prize-winning op-ed columnist for The New York Times. Dowd is......
Margaret Drabble is an English writer of novels that are skillfully modulated variations on the theme of a girl’s......
Matt Drudge is an American journalist who is best known for the Drudge Report, a conservative news and commentary......