List of famous female journalists, listed by their level of prominence with photos when available. This greatest female journalists list contains the most prominent and top females known for being journalists. There are thousand of females working as journalists in the world, but this list highlights only the most notable ones. Historic journalists have worked hard to become the best that they can be, so if you're a female aspiring to be a journalist then the people below should give you inspiration.
Examples include Sylvia Schloss and Ellen Mary Clerke.
While this isn't a list of all female journalists, it does answer the questions "Who are the most famous female journalists?" and "Who are the best female journalists?"Debbie Elliott
Deborah Elliot, aka Debbie Elliott, is a broadcast journalist for NPR, who covers news events in the American South.She attended graduate school at the University of Alabama, where she worked for WUAL-FM radio (which later joined other stations in forming Alabama Public Radio). Afterwards, she established her reputation as a stringer for NPR on the U.S. Gulf Coast. From 2005 to 2007, she was the host of Weekend All Things Considered. On September 2, 2007, she announced her decision to step down from the program. Former NPR Congressional reporter Andrea Seabrook replaced Elliot as WATC host. Elliot then reported on the 2008 presidential campaign and the United States Congress before returning to the South in 2009.Erin Bell
Erin Bell (born 30 April 1987) is a former Australian netball player. Bell's career started in 2005 with the Sydney Swifts in the Commonwealth Bank Trophy. She was the first player in the history of the ANZ Championship to win three premierships; the first with the New South Wales Swifts in 2008 and the second and third with the Adelaide Thunderbirds in 2010 and 2013.Matilda Landsman
Matilda Landsman was a New York Times employee in the 1950s. She was subpoenaed by the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee in November 1955 during their investigation into Communists in the media. She was one of 34 news media employees to be subpoenaed by the Senate after the testimony of journalist Winston Burdett, a one-time spy for the Soviet Union, in June 1955. Landsman worked as a Linotype operator at the time of her testimony in January 1956. According to allegations from unnamed sources Landsman had voluntarily obtained reassignment from the Times newsroom to the Linotype department, at lower pay, in order to do organizing and recruiting for the Communist Party among members of the powerful and militant typographers union, which was to shut down all the newspapers in New York City in a crippling 114-day 1962–63 New York City newspaper strike which left half the daily papers in New York dead or mortally wounded. In the past she had worked as a stenographer in the Times news and Sunday departments, and as a secretary to Joseph Fels Barnes, editor of the defunct New York Star, the brief-lived successor to the progressive/left daily newspaper PM. In her testimony she invoked the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering questions about her affiliation with the Communist Party.Sam Gunasekera
Sam Gunasekera is a freelance television producer and reporter. She has worked as a reporter for the BBC's One O'Clock News, Newsnight and for Channel 4 News. Her programme credits include Stop treating me like a kid for E4 and Shipwrecked for Channel 4. Also, Tribal Wives for BBC 2, The Apprentice for BBC 1, Big Brother for Channel FourSusan Paynter
Susan Paynter (b. Aug. 29, 1945) is a Northwest-based journalist and writer who has covered and commented on social issues since the late 1960s. A reporter, columnist and critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer from 1968 to 2007, she wrote ground-breaking, often controversial pieces on civil rights; equal rights for women, gays and lesbians; prison reform; juvenile justice; abortion and contraception; police; racial divisions; courts, and politics.Libe Goad
Libe Goad (born January 28, 1974) is a technology and video game journalist who resides in New York City and has written about video games and gadgets for publications including Blender, PC Magazine, Bust, Seventeen and Sync. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of AOL's GameDaily.com video game Web site and a semi-regular TV talking head on CNBC and other stations. Formerly, she was a Senior Writer at PCMag.com and Web Editor for Sync magazine for Ziff Davis. She is also the co-founder of GameGal.com, an early influential Web site for girl gamers. Goad is married to Dan Ackerman of CNET Networks, and their joint Web site is dedicated to their work covering technology, games and gadgets. She also appeared on a web show called "Play Value" Along with her husband and other people in the video gaming industry. The show talked about the history of gaming such as "The Rise of Atari", or "The Death of The Arcade". Goad was named one of the 50 Most Influential Games Journalists by Next-Generation, and is a judge for both Spike TV's VGA awards and the E3 Game Critics Awards.Leslie Rubinstein
Leslie Rubinstein (Pueblo, CO, June 21, 1939 — Glenview, IL, September 22, 2007) was an American music critic and journalist. She was a regular contributor to Opera News magazine from the mid-1970s through the 1990s. Her first article with the magazine was about stand-by singers at the Metropolitan Opera in 1975. Some of her other work for the magazine included featured stories on Luciano Pavarotti, Jan Peerce, Eleanor Steber and the filming of Francesco Rosi's Carmen.Carrie Quinlan
Carrie Quinlan is a British actress and comedy writer. She is a cast member of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme and the youngest child of Mary and Michael Quinlan.Sarah Hiddleston
Sarah Hiddleston is a journalist.Fenella Fudge
Sue Ellicott
Sue Ellicott is a former television correspondent for the BBC and political writer for The Times in Washington, DC. Ellicott has appeared on CNN, ABC News, and Politically Incorrect. Ellicott is one of the recurring guest panelists on the NPR radio news quiz show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! She was briefly a co-host of Air America Radio's Morning Sedition with comedian Marc Maron and radio veteran Mark Riley. She also appeared on Last Call with Elvis Mitchell, Stuttering John Melendez and Tad Low, a late-night gabfest on CBS affiliates in the early 90's.Veronica Hendrix
Veronica Hendrix is a journalist and feature columnist whose work has covered the span of the human continuum - from clinical trials of male contraceptives, to the gang violence. Her column "Veronica's View" appears weekly in the Los Angeles Sentinel newspaper, the online newsletter BlackNLA.com, and various other news outlets across the nation. She is the producer of the highly acclaimed half hour talk show called “LA Woman”, which airs on L.A. City View Channel 35, and is a Los Angeles Emmy nominated producer. Veronica’s career as a journalist has included being a reporter for USA Today and a producer for a radio talk show in Los Angeles which focused on issues impacting the African-American family. Veronica is a native of Southern California.Emily Gertz
Giselle Zado Wasfie
Giselle Zado Wasfie is a journalist and author who currently runs the blog "Imaginary Frend".Louisa Wong
Lysiane Gagnon
Lysiane Gagnon is a Canadian journalist based in Quebec. She has written for Montreal's La Presse since 1980 and Toronto's Globe and Mail since 1990. Gagnon was born in Montreal in 1941. From 1975 to 1980, she was a parliamentary correspondent. In 1975 she received the Olivar-Asselin Award, and has twice (in 1976 and 1982) been awarded the National Newspaper Awards prize. In 1984 she received the Salon de Montréal literary prize for her essay Vivre avec les hommes : un nouveau partage (Living with Men: A New Partnership). She has also published two collections of her columns, Chroniques politiques (Boreal, 1985) and L'esprit de contradiction (Boreal, 2010). In her columns, Gagnon takes positions in regards to federalism and feminism. Some argue that she is a prominent defender of Israel (Of all Quebec's francophone columnists). She has written extensively about the need to protect the French language in Quebec and Canada.Rachel Campbell-Johnston
Rachel Campbell-Johnston is The Times newspaper's chief art critic. Appointed to her post in 2002, she has also been her newspaper's poetry editor, leader writer, deputy comment editor, obituary writer and deputy books editor.Mysterious Wisdom, her biography of artist Samuel Palmer was published in 2011. The Child's Elephant, a novel about an African boy who rears an elephant, set against the backdrop of child soldiers fighting for a rebel army was published in 2013 and shortlisted for the Carnegie Prize.Tiffany Ten Eyck
Célia Takada
Eleonora Mambetshakirova
Georgina Lewis
Georgina Lewis is an Australian journalist and news presenter.Karen Arenson
Karen W. Arenson (born 1949 in New York) is a retired American journalist for the New York Times.Sarah Clarke
Sarah Clarke (née Dobson, born in Coleraine) is a broadcast journalist from Northern Ireland, who works at UTV and U105.Pia Conde
Pia Conde is a Swedish journalist and television presenter at SVT. She started her career at TV4 hosting the daily news broadcast TV4Nyheterna, and later the Sunday breakfast television programme Söndagsmorgon.After the switch to SVT, she has mainly hosted news broadcasts ABC, Rapport, Aktuellt and the business news programme A-ekonomi. Conde has also co-hosted and participated in lighter entertainment and game shows such as På spåret, the aid gala Världens barn, Allsång på Skansen and a television series about motor vehicles called Motoristen.Dani Sinha
Dani Sinha () is a British broadcast journalist and presenter, best known for her work on BBC World News and South Today. Since 2015 she has worked as a presenter reporter for 5 News on Channel 5. Sinha studied French and Latin at the University of Bristol before taking a postgraduate diploma in broadcast journalism at City University London.Eileen P. Gunn
Eileen P. Gunn is a business author who has worked for Fortune and Worth magazines. A member of Generation X, in 2006, she wrote Your Career is an Extreme Sport, which takes business and metaphors from risk-taking activities that encourage individuality, focus, and assertiveness, such as snowboarding. It includes tips from her career articles from the Wall Street Journal and a glossary of extreme sports terms. The book was reviewed in Newsday.Hanna Fahl
Hanna Fahl (born October 23, 1978) is a Swedish music journalist and translator. She is also the host of P3 Pop, a radio show on P3, Sveriges Radio. She sings vocals and plays flute in Kissing Mirrors, a death-pop band from Stockholm.Jillian Whiting
Jillian Whiting is an Australian television presenter.Julia Reynolds
Julia Reynolds is a reporter with the Center for Investigative Reporting. She also edits El Andar, a magazine of Latino politics and culture.Shanik Berman
Shanik Berman (Mexico, 1965) is a journalist. She was born in México City to Jewish immigrant parents from Slovakia who crossed the Atlantic after surviving the Second World War. She has studied Literature and Languages in Mexico, Paris and the United States. Berman became a showbiz reporter since 1980 and has since then become one of the icons of Showbiz Journalism in Mexico. Her staple show Intimamente Shanik was a pioneer in Mexican Television in handling previously censored subjects such as sex, divorces, infidelity, etc. Currently she writes a column for the most important newspapers in México such as: (diario)|ESTO (Sports Newspaper)]], El SOl de México, La Prensa, Periódico Basta y periódico heraldo she has a show business column with interviews of celebrities in the best-selling gossip magazine in México: “TVNOTAS” She has a daily radio show Shanik en Fórmula broadcast through Radio Fórmula in México, Latin America and USA which airs from Monday to Sunday. She is the author of Muy cerca del ombligo (1985) a satire about the showbiz world in México and she also wrote “Más cornadas da el Hombre” a book about bullfighters. She started her journalistic career in 1980. She worked in All the Univisión tv shows that were about show business, Among them: “Escándalo” “La Tijera » “Tómbola” “Cristina Show” “sal y pimienta” She has worked as one of the main show business journalists in all the gossip tv shows in Mexican National television such as: “la Oreja” “Con todo” “vida tv” “viva la mañana” “de buenas a la 1” “D poca” “Tv de Noche” “Muévete” “Nxclusiva” “ ARRIESGA TV” « Pasillo tv” “El Coque va” She has since a few years a show business section in the most Important tv morning show in Mexican National television: “HOY” She participated as herself in the soap opera “el triunfo del amor” with the main actor William Levy in 2010 She has her own YouTube channel ShanikTV
