This is a list of newspaper writers, journalists or other authors who may have written for major metropolitan newspapers or other types of major periodical newspapers.

Note that this list may include authors who are not necessarily employed by a particular newspaper but may in syndication. Many of these may no longer write for newspapers or may not now be primarily known as newspaper writers.

• Mitch Albom, (born 1958)
• Jack Anderson
• Carl Bernstein
• Jayson Blair
• Nellie Bly
• Benjamin C. Bradlee
• Rick Bragg
• Jimmy Breslin
• David Brinkley
• David Broder
• Ron Brownstein
• Edna Buchanan
• Art Buchwald
• Philip Caputo
• Winston Churchill
• Adam Clymer
• Janet Cooke
• Charles Wentworth Dilke, (1789-1864)
• Helen Dewar
• Maureen Dowd
• Banning Eyre
• Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790)
• Margaret Fuller
• Bill Gertz
• Georgie Geyer
• Al Gore
• David Halberstam
• Alexander Hamilton
• Otto Harbach
• Ben Hecht
• Jesse Helms
• Ernest Hemingway
• Seymour Hersh
• Marguerite Higgins
• Napoleon Hill
• Christopher Hitchens
• Karen Elliott House
• Phillip Knightley
• Howard Kurtz
• Rose Wilder Lane
• Fitz Hugh Ludlow
• Mary McGrory
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• H. L. Mencken
• Robert Novak
• John O'Hara
• Robert Palmer
• Daniel Pearl
• Albert Pike
• Walter Pincus
• Ernie Pyle
• Anna Quindlen
• Sheldon Rampton
• Grantland Rice
• Jacob Riis
• Mike Royko, (1932-1997)
• William Howard Russell
• William Safire
• Thomas Sowell, (born 1930)
• Ida Tarbell
• Helen Thomas
• Dorothy Thompson
• Hunter S. Thompson
• Sergio Troncoso
• Mark Twain
• João Vieira, (born 1975)
• Kurt Vonnegut
• Theodore White
• George Will, (born 1940)
• Walter Winchell
• Bob Woodward

See also

• List of journalists
• List of magazine writers
• List of authors