WOscar Fay Adams (1855–1919) was a United States editor and author.
WJoseph Brucker was an Austrian American newspaper editor who was active in the Republican Party, serving as Secretary of the Wisconsin Republican State Convention and as a member of the Illinois Republican State Central committee.
WGeorge Pomeroy Goodale was the drama editor of The Detroit Free Press.
WBenjamin F. Gue was a newspaper editor, author and politician in Iowa. He served as a member of Iowa House of Representatives (1858–1862); member of Iowa Senate (1862–1866), and as the Lieutenant Governor of Iowa (1866–1868). He is the author of the four-volume History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century.
WWilliam Peter Hamilton was the fourth editor of the Wall Street Journal and a proponent of Dow Theory.
WCharles George Herbermann was a German-American professor and historian. He was born in Saerbeck near Münster, Westphalia, Prussia, the son of George Herbermann and Elizabeth Stipp. He arrived in the United States in 1851, and seven years later graduated at College of St. Francis Xavier, New York City. He was appointed professor of Latin language and Literature (1869-1914) and librarian (1873-1914) at the College of the City of New York. For more than 50 years, he was immersed amidst various issues involved with Catholicism. He was president of the Catholic Club (1874–75) and of the United States Catholic Historical Society (1898-13). He became editor in chief of the Catholic Encyclopedia in 1905. He translated Torfason's History of Vinland and wrote Business Life in Ancient Rome (1880).
WWilliam Bailey Howland (1849–1917), was the editor of The Outlook, publisher of The Independent and The Countryside Magazine, and president of the Independent Corporation. He was a member of the American Peace Centenary Committee.
WCharles Henry Jones was an American journalist, editor, and political figure. Born in Talbotton, Georgia, at age 15 he joined the Confederate Army during the Civil War. In 1866 he moved to New York, where he edited Eclectic Magazine and Appleton's Journal. He moved to Jacksonville, Florida, in 1881, where he established the Florida Daily Times, which incorporated rival Florida Union to become the Florida Times-Union. He later was editor of St. Louis Republic, St. Louis Dispatch (1895–97) and New York World (1893–95). He was president of the National Editorial Association, and was prominent in the Democratic Party, leading the Florida Democratic Party and writing the Chicago Platform of 1896 and Kansas City Platform of 1900. He died in Ospedaletti, Italy.
WBrian Kellow was an American biographer and magazine editor. As an editor at Opera News from 1988 to 2016, he commissioned hundreds of articles from a range of writers, seeking out well-known voices and cultivating young talent. In addition to his monthly column in Opera News, his own articles appeared in Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Observer, Opera, and other publications.
WGuy H. Lillian III is a Louisiana lawyer, former letterhack and science fiction fanzine publisher notable for having been twice nominated for a Hugo Award as best fan writer and having had a row of 12 nominations for the Hugo for best fanzine for Challenger. He is the 1984 recipient of Southern fandom's Rebel Award.
WArthur Bartlett Maurice (1873–1946) was an American editor, born in Rahway, New Jersey, and educated at Richmond College (VA), and at Princeton. He served as an editor of the Woodbridge (NJ) Register in 1895, as city editor of the Elizabeth (NJ) Daily Herald in 1896, and as special writer for the New York Commercial Advertiser in 1897-98. Of The Bookman he was joint editor from 1899 to 1909 and editor thereafter. He contributed to the New International Encyclopædia and wrote New York in Fiction (1901) and History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature (1904), with F. T. Cooper.
WStephen Mason Merrill was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1872.
WCharles Allen Munn (1859–1924), was an American editor and publisher, who oversaw Scientific American after the editorship of his father, Orson Desaix Munn. His nephew Orson Desaix Munn II succeeded him as editor of the magazine. He was also a patron of the arts, and after his death bequeathed his collection of early American paintings, prints, and silver to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
WJohn Cullen Murphy, Jr. is an American writer, journalist and editor who was managing editor of The Atlantic magazine from 1985–2006.
WRobert Wilson Patterson (1850–1910) was an American newspaper editor and publisher. He was born in Chicago, attended Lake Forest Academy in Lake Forest, Illinois, and graduated from Williams College in 1871, and then began the study of law. After the great fire in Chicago he became a reporter on the Times, later joined the staff of the Interior, and in 1873 became connected with the Chicago Tribune, of which he was successively assistant night editor, Washington correspondent, editorial writer, managing editor, and editor in chief. He was also president of the Chicago Tribune Company.
WAlbert Edward Winship was a pioneering American educator and educational journalist, born at West Bridgewater, Mass. He attended Andover Theological Seminary in 1875. He was a pastor from 1876 to 1883. He had transferred himself over to the field of education by 1886 when he became editor of the Journal of Education, Boston, which grew to become one of the most influential educational magazines in the country. From 1903 to 1909, A. E. Winship was a member of the Massachusetts State Board of Education. His published works include: Life of Horace Mann (1896) and Great American Educators (1900). He was the father of George Parker Winship.
WNavah Wolfe is a two-time Hugo Award winning American editor of science fiction, fantasy and horror works.
WWalter M. Yust was an American journalist and writer. Yust was also the American editor-in-chief of the Encyclopædia Britannica from 1938 to 1960. He was the father of filmmaker Larry Yust and Jane Yust Rivera. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Yust began his career as a writer for the Philadelphia Evening Ledger in 1917 and later worked for newspapers in New Orleans, Louisiana, and for other publications. Yust became the literary editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger in 1926. Three years later, upon writing a review of the new 14th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, Yust came to the attention of its president, William Cox. The following year Yust began to work for the encyclopaedia and became its associate editor in 1932. He served as editor in chief from 1938 until his retirement in 1960.