John Francis Carroll (June 15, 1858 – December 4, 1917) was a newspaper publisher and editor who operated the Evening Telegram in Portland, Oregon.

Carroll attended Pennsylvania Normal School in Millersville, and his first job was as a Breaker boy in a coal mine.

[1] Carroll's first job as a newspaper reporter was at the Evening Chronicle in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, where he covered the Molly Maguires trials and witnessed the hanging of 17 defendants.

In 1879 he joined the staff of the Missouri Republican in St. Louis, but in 1880 he became city editor for the Omaha Bee.

While in Denver, Carroll helped publish the work of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar.