Over 60 portraits in oil painting depicting people, who contributed to the journalism in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, are found in the museum, such as of Abdi İpekçi, Agah Efendi (1832–1885), Agop Arad, Ahmet Ağaoğlu (1869–1939), Ahmed Cevdet Pasha (1822–1895), Ahmet Emin Yalman, Ahmet İhsan Tokgöz, Ahmet Mithat Efendi (1844—1913), Ahmet Rasim, Ahmet Samim, Ali Naci Karacan (1896–1955), Ali Suavi (1838–1878), Asım Us, Basiretçi Ali, Burhan Felek (1889–1982), Cemal Nadir, Cevat Fehmi Başkut, Cihat Baban, Çetin Emeç, Doğan Nadi Abalıoğlu, Ebuzziya Tevfik, Elif Naci, Ercüment Ekrem Talu, Hakkı Tarık Us, Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın (1875–1957), İ. Şinasi Bey, Ibrahim Muteferrika (1674–1745), Kadri Kayabal, Kazım Nami Duru, Mahmut Sadak, Mihran Efendi, Mustafa Yücel, Mümtaz Faik Fenik, Münif Fehim Özerman, Namık Kemal (1840–1888), Necmettin Sadak (1890–1953), Nezih Demirkent, Reşat Nuri Güntekin (1889–1956), Sabiha Sertel, Sait Kesler, Sedat Simavi, Şemsettin Sami (1850–1904), Teodor Kasap, Velid Ebuzziya, Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu (1879–1945), Zekeriya Sertel.
