| Seven Wonders: People
Semi-Finalists:
- Carl Bernstein, investigative reporter for the Washington Post
- Louis Boccardi, former president and CEO of The Associated Press
- Kate Boo, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Tom Brokaw, television journalist
- Truman Capote, writer for the New Yorker-- author of "In Cold Blood"
- C.J. Chivers, New York Times journalist
- W.E.B. Du Bois, journalist (civil rights)
- Editors
- Ben Franklin, publisher and printer
- Mario Garcia, newspaper designer
- Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of movable type printing and mechanical printing
- Ferial Haffajee, first woman editor of the Mail & Guardian (S. Africa)
- Ryszard Kapuschinski, Polish journalist
- Bill Kovach, founder of the Committee of Concerned Journalists
- Robert C. Maynard, First African-American to own a major daily newspaper
- Ralph McGill, Editor/publisher Atlanta Constitution, racial tolerance advocate, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Hamid Mir, Pakistani veteran journalist
- Bill Moyers, journalist for PBS and Emmy Lifetime Achievement award winner
- Edward R. Murrow, television news pioneer
- Gene Patterson, Pulitzer Prize winner, former CEO Times Publishing Co./chairman of the Poynter Institute
- Daniel Pearl, slain American journalist for the Wall Street Journal
- Ernie Pyle, War correspondent for Scripps Howard newspapers
- John Quinn, newspaper executive with Gannett Co.
- Readers
- Hazel Brannon Smith, first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize
- I.F. Stone, investigative journalist
- Gay Talese, literary journalist
- Ida Tarbell, investigative journalist and author of The History of the Standard Oil Company
- Ida B. Wells, civil rights advocate and journalist
- Bob Woodward, investigative journalist/editor for The Washington Post
Nominees:
- Roy Aarons, Founded the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association
- Barry Bearak, New York Times
- Tim Berners-Lee, Hypertext pioneer
- George Bodarky, assistant news director WFUV 90.7 FM
- Michael Brick, New York Times writer
- Brian Collister, investigative reporter
- Lane Degregory, St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times journalist
- Lisa DeMoraes, Washington Post television columnist
- David Finkel, Washington Post explanatory journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner
- Jon Franklin, author
- Howard Hays, The Riverside Press-Enterprise publisher and activist
- Anne Hull, Washington Post diversity writer
- Elliot Jaspin, Computer assisted reporter
- Tom Junod, Esquire writer
- Mark Liebovich, The New York Times
- Rudy Maxa, radio journalist
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Philip Meyer, pioneer in social science research journalism
- Paperboys
- Gerald S. Robinson
- Paul Salopek, The Chicago Tribune
- Cindy Simoneau, Editor and professor of Journalism
- Gary Smith, sportswriter, Sports Illustrated
- Jon Stewart, media satirist/news critic, host of The Daily Show
- Pat Stith, Pulitzer Prize winner, investigative reporter at The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
- Hank Stuever, staff writer for The Washington Post
- William Strunk Jr., author
- Hunter Thompson, founder of the New Journalism movement
- E.B. White, author
- Lawrence Young, Newspaper editor
- John Peter Zenger, printer, editor and journalists whose landmark trial helped develop freedom of the press
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