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Flourished 1673 - 1716
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American journalist
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John Peter Zenger
American printer
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Thomas Morley
British composer
William Hone, detail of an oil painting by George Patten in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Hone
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John Walter, I
English publisher
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Joseph Moses Levy
British journalist
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Daniel MacMillan
Scottish publisher
William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison
American editor, writer, and abolitionist
Joseph Pulitzer, detail of a portrait by C. de Grimm from The Curio, November 1887.
Joseph Pulitzer
American newspaper publisher
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Ellen Browning Scripps
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British publisher Robert Maxwell in a suit and patterned tie, seated and looking to his right, 1991.
Robert Maxwell
Czechoslovak-born British publisher
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Carlos P. Romulo
Filipino diplomat
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Alicia Patterson
American journalist and publisher
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Eliza Jane Poitevent Holbrook Nicholson
American poet and journalist
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A.S. Abell
American journalist
John S. Knight.
John S. Knight
American journalist and publisher
The only woman whose name appears on the Declaration of Independence
Mary Katharine Goddard
American printer, publisher, and postmaster
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Sayyid Shaykh bin Ahmad al-Hadi
Malaysian writer
Joseph Medill, detail of a lithograph by J.O. Ottomann Company, 1893.
Joseph Medill
American publisher