- William Bross, Williams 1838, Editor - Chicago Tribune
- Rossiter Johnson, Rochester 1863, historian and novelist
- Rupert Hughes, Western Reserve 1892, historian and novelist
- Stephen Crane, Lafayette and Syracuse 1894, journalist and author; Red Badge of Courage
- Joyce Kilmer, Rutgers '09, poet and battlefield reporter
- Leland Stowe, Wesleyan '21, columnist and 1930 Pulitzer Prize winner
- Hedley W. Donovan, Minnesota '34, Editor-in chief of TIME Magazine
- Robert Letts Jones, Stanford '35, President of Copley Newspapers
- Austin H. Kiplinger, Cornell '38, publisher of the Kiplinger Letter
- Dwight E. Sargent, Colby '39, Editorialist and Editor, New York Herald Tribune
- Heywood Hale Broun, Swarthmore '40, Editorialist and author
- Donal Dinwiddle, Virginia '40, Editor-in-chief, Popular Mechanics Publishing Company
- Buert R. Servaas, Indiana '41, President, The Saturday Evening Post
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cornell '44, editorialist and author
- Richard F. McLoughlin, DePauw '50, President of Reader's Digest
- Richard A. Moran, Rutgers '72, author
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