1998 Martha Gellhorn, war reporter (Reuthers), dies at 89
1998 William Lambert, Pulitzer prize-winning reporter, dies at 78
1995 Ruud van den Hende, Dutch sports reporter, dies at 63
1994 Betty Furness, actress/news consumer reporter (WNBC), dies at 78
1994 Klaas Peereboom, Dutch sports reporter (Het Parool), dies at 77
1992 Sjoerd de Free, reporter (Radio Herrijzend Netherland), dies
1992 Brendan Nulholland, Daily Mail reporter, dies at 59
1991 Daily Planet fires cub reporter Jimmy Olson (Superman character)
1990 Paul Wynne, KGO-TV San Francisco reporter, dies of AIDS at 46
1990 New York Newsday reporter Jimmy Breslin suspended for a racial slur
1986 Jane Dornnacker, WNBC-AM New York City helicopter traffic reporter, dies doing a live traffic report as her copter crashes
1985 Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut
1981 Richard Talmadge, actor (Speed Reporter), dies
1976 Lowell Thomas ends 46 years as radio network reporter
1974 Cornelius Ryan, war reporter/historian (Bridge too Far), dies at 54
1967 Tabitha Soren, born in San Antonio, Texas, MTV reporter, This Week in Rock
1964 Jim Koethe, Dallas Times Herald reporter, killed by karate chop
1959 Nancy Remy, reporter, New York City's Shadow Traffic
1956 Lisa J. Allen, TV reporter and lawyer
1954 Michael Scott, reporter, Entertainment Tonight
1949 Mary Alice Williams, news reporter, NBC-TV
1948 Egon E Kisch, Czech writer/journalist (Raging Reporter), dies at 62
1948 Pat O'Brien, reporter, Entertainment Tonight
1947 1st black reporter in Congressional press gallery (Percival Prattis)
1947 Ann Compton, news reporter, ABC TV
1944 Carl Bernstein, Washington Post investigative reporter, Watergate
1944 1st black reporter accredited to White House, Harry McAlpin
1943 Bob Woodward, investigative reporter, Watergate, CIA crimes
1942 Jack Singer, U.S. war reporter (Wasp), dies
1942 Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Due West, South Carolina, news reporter, McNeil-Lehrer
1941 Willibrord Frequin, Dutch TV reporter
1940 Joan Haanappel, figure skater/sports reporter
1940 Michael Brunson, TV reporter/newscaster/actor, Never Say Die
1939 Jane Bryant Quinn, newspaper and television reporter
1937 Seymour Hersh, award winning investigative reporter, New York Times
1934 Barbara Howar, Nashville, reporter, Washington Post, Entertainment Tonight
1934 Arthur Miller, legal reporter
1931 Ruud van den Hende, sports reporter
1931 Robert D Novak, Joliet, Illinois, news reporter, CNN-Evans and Novak
1929 Jules Verne Berman, space and science reporter, ABC-TV
1921 Rowland Evans, born in White Marsh, Pennsylvania, news reporter, CNN-Evans and Novak
1914 U.S. war reporter Richard H. Davis visits Leuven
1908 Henry Chadwick, sports reporter (baseball), dies at 85
1907 Barend Barendse, Dutch sports reporter
1904 Marya Mannes, New York City, author, The Reporter
1899 Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill and wife captured in Natal
1899 British Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill reaches Capetown
1899 Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill departs to South Africa
1897 Ad van Emmenes, Dutch soccer reporter
1897 1st reporter, William Price (Washington Star), assigned to White House
1892 Robert P Tristram Coffin, poet/reporter, WW II
1889 New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began her attempt to surpass fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around world in less than 80 days She succeeded, by finishing trip following January in 72 days, 6
1885 Egon E Kisch, Czech writer/journalist, Rasende Reporter
1849 Jacob Riis, Denmark, reporter, New York Tribune, New York Evening Sun
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