Hey there, AWBEL. 

Thanks for dropping by the Community. I believe I found the issue, I was trying to recreate the situation in a test account and I noticed you mentioned Vendors. When I created a Journal entry and tried to run a transaction report by vendors, I too had a blank name column. The solution that I was able to find was to run a Transaction by Customer rather than Vendor. When you do this, it will show your journal entry you created.

I hope this helps and if you have any other questions, feel free to post here. Thank you and have a nice afternoon.