• in 1967, Ray Miller, a Houston news director, hired future U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison as the first female television journalist in Texas?
• in 2006 the Philadelphia City Council proclaimed "Edie Huggins Day" in honor of her 40th anniversary as a reporter and journalist for WCAU-TV?
• in March 1997, Lucia Newman became the first United States journalist in twenty-seven years to be based in Cuba?
• in 1925, journalist and historian J. Marvin Hunter published a posthumous autobiography of John Wesley Hardin, an outlaw and gunfighter of the American Old West?
• despite pioneer Japanese journalist Kuga Katsunan's advocacy of Japanese nationalism, government censors shut his newspaper down 30 times between 1889 and 1896?
• Marvin Minoff, executive producer of The Nixon Interviews between former U.S. President Richard Nixon and journalist David Frost, began his career as a talent agent?
• Nicci French is the pseudonym for a couple of London journalists, Nicci Gerrard and Sean French, who write psychological thrillers together?
• American journalist Phelan Beale, Jr. was a son of Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and a brother of Edith Bouvier Beale, whose lives were highlighted in the documentary Grey Gardens?
• in his first TV series, Crusader (CBS, 1955–1956), Brian Keith portrayed fictional journalist Matt Anders, who during the Cold War liberates oppressed people from communism?
• in his later years, Indian journalist C. Karunakara Menon was detested by the extremists of the Indian independence movement as well as the Government of British India?
• the Religion Newswriters Association awards scholarships for full-time journalists who wish to take college courses on religion?
• the footage filmed for the documentary film The Boys from Baghdad High had to be smuggled out of Iraq by journalists of many different news agencies?
• the global media alliance Project Klebnikov is dedicated to investigating the July 2004 murder of journalist Paul Klebnikov?
• the Barranquilla Group is the name of a collection of writers and journalists based in the Colombian city of the same name, and that members of it included Gabriel García Márquez and Álvaro Cepeda Samudio?
• the 2004 Dean v. Utica U.S. federal case expanded the First Amendment rights of high school journalists, which had been limited by the Supreme Court's 1988 Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier ruling?
• over the course of his 44 year career as a writer and editor with the Bend Bulletin, Phil Brogan trained numerous young journalists including Tom McCall, who later became governor of Oregon?
• pioneering African American journalist Larry Whiteside was part of an expert panel that chose the Major League Baseball All-Century Team?
• John Heriot, a late-eighteenth-century British journalist, was secretly funded to publish two pro-government newspapers?
• Jean Charpentier, press secretary for former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, was the first foreign journalist to interview General Augusto Pinochet following the 1973 Chilean coup d'état?
• journalist Michael C. Moynihan announced he would support the protest movement Everybody Draw Mohammed Day and post his favorite entries to the Reason magazine website?
• Louisiana journalist Robert Angers in 1977 established the International Relations Association of Acadiana to foster goodwill and commerce with French and Spanish-speaking nations?
• Puerto Rican journalist Hector Feliciano has shed light on an estimated 20,000 works of art stolen by the Nazis during World War II?
• Irish journalist Doireann Ní Bhriain was given one of the final Jacob's Awards in 1993 to commemorate her career with RTÉ Radio 1?
• Indonesian journalist, S. K. Trimurti, who often used a pseudonym in her reporting to avoid arrest by Dutch colonial authorities, later became the country's first minister of labor?
• 1992 was the only year the American Society of Journalists and Authors presented the Conscience-in-Media Award to more than one journalist?
• Austrian journalist Günther Nenning is nicknamed Auhirsch, meaning "meadow deer"?
• German record producer and journalist Uwe Nettelbeck changed the face of German rock music in the early 1970s?
• British journalist and Liberal politician Colin Coote was an editor of the The Daily Telegraph for 14 years?
• American journalist William Tobin was the first correspondent for the Associated Press to be based in Juneau, Alaska?
• Bob Bruce of the Abilene Reporter-News in Texas was considered a "superb raconteur" and versatile journalist whose "institutional memory" empowered his newsroom colleagues?
• Carlos Monsiváis, who was a Mexican political activist and journalist, won more than 33 awards during his lifetime?
• Jay Barbree is the only journalist to have covered every manned space flight in the United States, beginning with Alan Shepherd's maiden voyage in 1961?
• Ah Jook Ku, a journalist and writer based in Hawaii, was the first Asian American reporter for the Associated Press, as well as the first Asian American female reporter for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin?
• Adrienne Beames, the daughter of Australian rules footballer, first-class cricketer, and journalist Percy Beames, was the first woman to break the 3-hour barrier in the marathon?
• American journalist Alan Cabal was one of the luminaries of New York City's occult movement during the "occult renaissance" started in the 1960s?
• Welsh military pilot and journalist, Wing Commander Patrick Gibbs, published two volumes of wartime memoirs 49 years apart: Not Peace, But a Sword (1943) and Torpedo Leader (1992)?
• 1,200 journalists, human rights advocates, and leftist activists have been killed in the Philippines as a result of Gloria Arroyo's counter-insurgency program "Oplan Bantay Laya"?

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• Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sylvan Fox was a classically trained pianist who attended, but never graduated from, the Juilliard School?
• Tajikistan was one of the deadliest countries for journalists in the 1990s, with dozens of journalists killed, including Belarusian documentary filmmaker Arcady Ruderman and Bukharan Jewish journalist Meirkhaim Gavrielov?
• Gilbert Mabbot (1622–1670) was a pioneering journalist during the English Civil War who also served as an official licenser of the press?
• Guri Hjeltnes, though a professor of journalism, has mainly concentrated on Norwegian World War II history during her academic career?
• Ruth Gruber was the first journalist to enter the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan?
• Webb Miller, whose reporting of the Salt Satyagraha raid on the Dharasana Salt Works was credited for helping turn world opinion against British colonial rule in India, was kidnapped by Morton Salt co-founder Mark Morton?
• courses in bioethics and journalism are a part of the academic curriculum of The Pontifical Academy of Theology (pictured) in Kraków, Poland?
• many countries afford journalists the right to protect their sources?
• the journalistic practice of muckraking began at McClure's magazine?
• the Sunday Magazine Editors Association gives out journalism awards recognizing work in writing, investigative journalism, and design in Sunday newspaper magazines?