Journalism, O’B-REB
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
William O’Brien was an Irish journalist and politician who was for several years second only to Charles Stewart......
Julia O’Faolain was an Irish writer whose meticulously researched, often darkly comic novels, short stories, and......
Sean O’Faolain was an Irish writer best known for his short stories about Ireland’s lower and middle classes. He......
Bill O’Reilly is an American conservative political commentator, television and radio personality, and author who......
Ignacy Jan Paderewski was a Polish pianist, composer, and statesman, who was prime minister of Poland in 1919.......
Clarence Page is an American newspaper columnist and television commentator specializing in urban affairs. While......
Walter Hines Page was a journalist, book publisher, author, and diplomat who, as U.S. ambassador to Great Britain......
Thomas Paine was an English-American writer and political pamphleteer whose Common Sense pamphlet and Crisis papers......
Bipin Chandra Pal was an Indian journalist and an early leader of the nationalist movement. By his contributions......
Francis Turner Palgrave was an English critic and poet, editor of the influential anthology The Golden Treasury.......
Jacob Paludan was a Danish novelist and conservative critic whose work expressed a mistrust—based on the fear of......
pamphlet, brief booklet; in the UNESCO definition, it is an unbound publication that is not a periodical and contains......
Clément Pansaers was a Belgian poet and Dadaist whose reputation was resurrected some 50 years after his death.......
Sara Paretsky is an American mystery writer known for her popular series of novels featuring V.I. Warshawski, a......
Gaston Paris was the greatest French philologist of his age. After a thorough education in German universities......
Frank Kobina Parkes was a Ghanaian journalist, broadcaster, and poet whose style and great confidence in the future......
Louella Parsons was an American newspaper writer, the first—and, for many years, most powerful—movie columnist......
Sara Payson Willis Parton was an American novelist and newspaper writer, one of the first woman columnists, known......
Teixeira de Pascoaes was a Portuguese poet-philosopher who attempted to create a cult of nationalistic mystique......
Nikol Pashinyan is an Armenian journalist and politician who serves as prime minister of Armenia (2018– ). He rose......
Banjo Paterson was an Australian poet and journalist noted for his composition of the internationally famous song......
Alicia Patterson was an American journalist who was cofounder and longtime publisher and editor of the Pulitzer......
Eleanor Medill Patterson was the flamboyant editor and publisher of the Washington Times-Herald. Elinor Patterson......
Joseph Medill Patterson was an American journalist, coeditor and publisher—with his cousin Robert Rutherford McCormick—of......
Octavio Paz was a Mexican poet, writer, and diplomat, recognized as one of the major Latin American writers of......
Nikola Pašić was the prime minister of Serbia (1891–92, 1904–05, 1906–08, 1909–11, 1912–18) and prime minister......
Lucy Whitehead McGill Waterbury Peabody was an American missionary who was an influential force in a number of......
Drew Pearson was one of the most influential newspaper columnists in the United States. Pearson was the son of......
Karl Pearson was a British statistician, leading founder of the modern field of statistics, prominent proponent......
Christiern Pedersen was a Danish humanist who was among the first to rediscover Denmark’s national literary and......
Felipe Pedrell was a Spanish composer and musical scholar who devoted his life to the development of a Spanish......
Westbrook Pegler was an American columnist whose continual crusades, combined with an acerbic, original style,......
Silvio Pellico was an Italian patriot, dramatist, and author of Le mie prigioni (1832; My Prisons), memoirs of......
William Penn was an English Quaker leader and advocate of religious freedom, who oversaw the founding of the American......
Thomas Percy was an English antiquarian and bishop whose collection of ballads, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry......
Maxwell Perkins was an influential American editor who discovered many of the most prominent American writers of......
Bliss Perry was an American scholar and editor, especially noted for his work in American literature. Perry was......
Nora Perry was an American journalist, poet, and children’s author whose sentimental works were favourites in her......
Camilo Pessanha was a Portuguese poet whose work is the representative in Portuguese poetry of Symbolism in its......
Ann Petry was an African-American novelist, journalist, and biographer whose works offered a unique perspective......
Sándor Petőfi was one of the greatest Hungarian poets and a revolutionary who symbolized the Hungarian desire for......
Phan Khoi was an intellectual leader who inspired a North Vietnamese variety of the Chinese Hundred Flowers Campaign,......
Samuel Phelps was a British actor and manager, one of the most famous actors of the 19th century. Early in life......
David Pinski was a Russian-born playwright, novelist, and editor, one of the most noteworthy Yiddish-language dramatists.......
Robert Pinsky is an American poet and critic whose poems search for the significance underlying everyday acts.......
Solomon Tshekiso Plaatje was a linguist, journalist, politician, statesman, and writer whose mind and activities......
Maximus Planudes was a Greek Orthodox humanities scholar, anthologist, and theological polemicist in the controversy......
Frederik Pohl was an American science-fiction writer whose best work uses the genre as a mode of social criticism......
Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet was an English legal scholar, noted for his History of English Law Before the......
Francis Ponge was a French poet who crafted intricate prose poems about everyday objects. He sought to create a......
Gio Ponti was an Italian architect and designer associated with the development of modern architecture and modern......
Alexander Pope was a poet and satirist of the English Augustan period, best known for his poems An Essay on Criticism......
Richard Porson was a British master of classical scholarship during the 18th century, the most brilliant of the......
Gene Stratton Porter was an American novelist, remembered for her fiction rooted in the belief that communion with......
Sylvia Field Porter was an American economist and journalist whose financial advice—in newspaper columns, books,......
Emily Post was an American authority on social behaviour who crafted her advice by applying good sense and thoughtfulness......
Dom Joseph Pothier was a French monk and scholar who, together with his contemporaries, reconstituted the Gregorian......
Frederick A. Pottle was an American scholar who became the foremost authority on the 18th-century English biographer......
Ezra Pound was an American poet and critic, a supremely discerning and energetic entrepreneur of the arts who did......
Samantha Power is an American journalist, human rights scholar, and government official who served on the National......
Warren E. Preece was an American encyclopaedist, general editor of Encyclopædia Britannica in the creation of the......
France Prešeren was Slovenia’s national poet and its sole successful contributor to European Romanticism. Prešeren......
Nathanael Pringsheim was a botanist whose contributions to the study of algae made him one of the founders of the......
V.S. Pritchett was a British novelist, short-story writer, and critic known throughout his long writing career......
Stojan Protić was a Serbian statesman and editor who was the first prime minister of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats,......
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a French libertarian socialist and journalist whose doctrines became the basis for later......
William Prynne was an English Puritan pamphleteer whose persecution by the government of King Charles I (reigned......
Stanisław Przybyszewski was a Polish essayist, playwright, and poet notable for espousing art as the creator of......
Joseph Pulitzer was an American newspaper editor and publisher who helped to establish the pattern of the modern......
Samuel Purchas was an English compiler of travel and discovery writings who continued the encyclopaedic collections......
Samuel Putnam was an American editor, publisher, and author, best known for his translations of works by authors......
Jerzy Putrament was a Polish poet, novelist, journalist, and editor who was also active in politics. Putrament......
Félix Pyat was a French journalist, dramatist, and member of the Paris Commune of 1871. Pyat studied law but eventually......
Ernie Pyle was an American journalist who was one of the most famous war correspondents of World War II. Pyle studied......
Barbara Pym was an English novelist, a recorder of post-World War II upper middle-class life, whose elegant and......
Ginés Pérez de Hita was a Spanish writer, author of Historia de los vandos de los Zegríes y Abencerrages (1595–1619;......
Percy Qoboza was a South African journalist who was an outspoken critic of apartheid and one of South Africa’s......
Francis Quarles was a religious poet remembered for his Emblemes, the most notable emblem book in English. The......
Salvatore Quasimodo was an Italian poet, critic, and translator. Originally a leader of the Hermetic poets, he......
Rachel de Queiroz was a Brazilian novelist and member of a group of Northeastern writers known for their modernist......
Sir Peter Quennell was an English biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, and critic. He was a wide-ranging......
Antero Tarquínio de Quental was a Portuguese poet who was a leader of the Generation of Coimbra, a group of young......
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch was an English poet, novelist, and anthologist noted for his compilation of The......
Harriet Quimby was an American aviator, the first female pilot to fly across the English Channel. Quimby’s birth......
Anna Quindlen is an American columnist and novelist who in 1992 became the third woman to win a Pulitzer Prize......
Karl Radek was a communist propagandist and early leader of the Communist International who fell victim to Joseph......
Jorge Ramos is a Mexican American journalist who was perhaps the most prominent Hispanic newsperson in the United......
Allan Ramsay was a Scottish poet and literary antiquary who maintained national poetic traditions by writing Scots......
Giovanni Battista Ramusio was an Italian geographer who compiled an important collection of travel writings, Delle......
John Crowe Ransom was an American poet and critic, leading theorist of the Southern literary renaissance that began......
Rasmus Rask was a Danish language scholar and a principal founder of the science of comparative linguistics. In......
William Rastell was an English printer, lawyer, and man of letters. He edited and published the works of his uncle,......
Dan Rather is an American newscaster and author who covered some of the most important historical events of his......
Camilla Ravera was an Italian politician and leading figure in the Italian Communist Party (PCI). Ravera taught......
Rachael Ray is an American chef and television personality, who promotes quick, easy-to-prepare meals through her......
Saint Raymond of Peñafort ; canonized 1601; feast day January 7) was a Catalan Dominican friar who compiled the......
Henry Jarvis Raymond was a U.S. journalist and politician who, as the first editor and chief proprietor of The......
François-Juste-Marie Raynouard was a French dramatist and Romance philologist who also played a part in the politics......
Opie Read was an American journalist, humorist, novelist, and lecturer. Read specialized in the homespun humour......
Jorge Rebelo is an African poet, lawyer, and journalist. Rebelo studied at the University of Coimbra in Portugal,......