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1.	Clare Boothe Luce achieved fame as an editor, playwright, politician, journalist, and diplomat. Talented, wealthy, contraversial and beautiful, she pursued many careers and many dreams in a life blighted with unhappiness, but culminating in being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by US President Reagan. Click here to read about Claire Boothe
2.	Also known as Nellie Bly, Elizabeth Cochran was a famous female journalist, who amongst other things, went around the world in 72 days. Click here to read about Elizabeth Cochran
3.	Creater of the irrepresible Irishman "Mr Dooley", Finley Peter Dunne was one of the foremost American humourists. Click here to read about Finley Dunne
4.	The woman who became the first female news show anchorwoman, after going onto a show for 13 weeks and staying for 37. Click here to read about Dorothy Fuldheim
5.	19th century American intellectual Margaret Fuller, one of America's first major woman journalists and a leading literary critic of her time. Click here to read about Margaret Fuller
6.	Horace Greeley founded the influential newspaper The New York Tribune. Politically motivated, Greeley did hold office briefly, but is principally remembered for his outspokenness. Click here to read about Horace Greeley
7.	Edgar Guest, who wrote over 11,000 poems on subjects as diverse as home, mother and hard work. For several decades he wrote a poem every day of the week. Click here to read about Edgar Guest
8.	English playwright, journalist, and humorist Douglas Jerrold. Click here to read about Douglas Jerrold
9.	Brian Lamb, the man who started the television network Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network, better known as C-SPAN. Click here to read about Brian Lamb
10.	An Irish-American who started the first US news syndicate, and who published much of the writing of the muckrakers, Samuel McClure. Sadly his business acumen was not really up to scratch and he died a poor man. Click here to read about Samuel McClure
11.	Joseph Pulitzer, who revolutionized the style and substance of newspaper publication in the modern era. Click here to read about Joseph Pulitzer
12.	Ida Tarbell, one of the early 20th Century journalists known as muckrakers. Click here to read about Ida Tarbell
13.	The first woman to head a major international news bureau, Dorothy Thompson. Click here to read about Dorothy Thompson
14.	The man who popularised "new journalism", which often uses fictional events to describe or add weight to real proceedings, Hunter S. Thompson started a new wave. Click here to read about Hunter Thompson