Find out more about the greatest 19th Century Media Personalities, including Frederick Douglass, Dorothy Day, W. E. B. Du Bois, T. S. Eliot and H. G. Wells

19th Century Media Personalities

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From being a slave of a selected few to rising up as the most powerful medium, media has come a long way. And much credit for the same goes to the media personalities, TV presenters, journalists, editors, publishers and cartoonists who have taken it to great heights. 19th century witnessed an influx of great media personalities who created waves through their grit, determination and powerful willingness. They were a fearless bunch of people, who resolved to change the fate of media through their work. Talking about some of the greatest media personalities that lived during the 19th century, the first name that strikes the mind is that of Joseph Pulitzer. The man who also has an award to his name that is presented every year for outstanding contribution by a journalist, Pulitzer revived American journalism in the late 1800s. Did you know that Irish reporter Sir William Howard Russell was the first modern war correspondent? He covered the Crimean War and gave new meaning to war reporting. William Randolph Hearst started an intense newspaper war in New York which provoked real war in Cuba. Horace Greeley, the much famed editor of the 19th century, shaped public opinion for decades with her work. The list is long and comprises of several more renowned personalities who gave new meaning and a new definition to media. Check this section to know about the famous media personalities of the 19th century.

Frederick Douglass

01 February 1818

American

W. E. B. Du Bois

23 February 1868

Ghanaian

William Randolph Hearst

29 April 1863

American

Nellie Bly

05 May 1864

American

Jack London

12 January 1876

American

Joseph Pulitzer

10 April 1847

Hungarian

H. L. Mencken

12 September 1880

American

Ambrose Bierce

24 June 1842

American

Henry Morton Stanley

28 January 1841

British,American,Welsh

Rube Goldberg

04 July 1883

American

Dorothy Day

08 November 1897

American

Carl Sandburg

06 January 1878

American

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Walter Lippmann

23 September 1889

American

Walter Winchell

07 April 1897

American

Thomas Nast

27 September 1840

American

Margaret Fuller

23 May 1810

American

Pauline Pfeiffer

22 July 1895

American

James Thurber

08 December 1894

American

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Banjo Paterson

17 February 1864

Australian

Henry Adams

16 February 1838

American

Bret Harte

25 August 1836

American

Katherine Anne Porter

15 May 1890

American

Andrew Lang

31 March 1844

Scottish

Robert Benchley

15 October 1889

American

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Hristo Botev

06 January 1848

Bulgarian

Giuseppe Ungaretti

08 February 1888

Italian

Alexander Woollcott

19 January 1887

American

Norman Angell

26 December 1872

British

Christopher Morley

05 May 1890

American

Don Marquis

29 July 1878

American

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Catherine Helen Spence

31 October 1825

Australian

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

11 November 1836

American

Malcolm Cowley

24 August 1898

American

Franklin Pierce Adams

15 November 1881

American

John Reed

22 October 1887

American

Frank King

09 April 1883

American

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Azim Azimzade

07 May 1880

Azerbaijani

C.P. Scott

26 October 1846

British

Colette

28 January 1873

French

G. K. Chesterton

29 May 1874

British

Abul Kalam Azad

11 November 1888

Indian

Mary McLeod Bethune

10 July 1875

American

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Theodor Herzl

02 May 1860

Hungarian

Lady Randolph Churchill

09 January 1854

British,American

Carter G. Woodson

19 December 1875

American

Ida Tarbell

05 November 1857

American

Stefan Zweig

28 November 1881

Austrian,British

Dorothea Lange

26 May 1895

American

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Max Stirner

25 October 1806

German

Hal Roach

14 January 1892

American

Clara Zetkin

05 July 1857

German

Wilfrid Laurier

20 November 1841

Canadian

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

07 April 1890

American

Vera Brittain

29 December 1893

British

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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

15 January 1809

French

Horace Greeley

03 February 1811

American

Stephen Crane

01 November 1871

American

Dwight L. Moody

05 February 1837

American

Harold Abrahams

15 December 1899

British

Marcelo H. del Pilar

30 August 1850

Filipino

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Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson

04 January 1890

American

Emma Lazarus

22 July 1849

American

Mathew Brady

18 May 1822

American

Walter Duranty

25 May 1884

British

Karl Polanyi

25 October 1886

Hungarian

Kurt Eisner

14 May 1867

German

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Keith Murdoch

12 August 1885

Australian

Alfred A. Knopf

12 September 1892

American

Harold Nicolson

21 November 1886

British

Weegee

12 June 1899

American

Fukuzawa Yukichi

10 January 1835

Japanese

Henryk Sienkiewicz

05 May 1846

Polish

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Otto Strasser

10 September 1897

German

Constantine P. Cavafy

29 April 1863

Egyptian,Greek,British

Raymond Poincaré

20 August 1860

French

Theodor Heuss

31 January 1884

German

Lewis Mumford

19 October 1895

American

Béla Kun

20 February 1886

Hungarian

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Harriet Martineau

12 June 1802

British

Elbert Hubbard

19 June 1856

American

Carlo Collodi

24 November 1826

Italian

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