A columnist is a journalist who produces a specific form of writing for publication called a "column". Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and on the Internet. Some Internet columns are called blogs or Weblogs.
Types of columnists
Columnists of note in English-language publications
- Shana Alexander
- Jani Allan (Sunday Times (South Africa)) (South Africa)
- Barbara Amiel
- Army Archerd
- Mike Barnicle (Boston Herald, USA)
- Mike Ball (North Star Writers Group) (USA)
- Dave Barry (Miami Herald, USA)
- Lucius Beebe (San Francisco Examiner and New York Herald Tribune, USA)
- Christie Blatchford (The Globe and Mail, Canada)
- Erma Bombeck
- L.M. Boyd
- Tom Braden
- Russell Brand (The Guardian, UK.
- David Brooks (New York Times, USA)
- Rosa Brooks (Los Angeles Times, USA)
- Art Buchwald (Washington Post, USA)
- Herman Cain (North Star Writers Group) (USA)
- Mona Charen
- Jeremy Clarkson
- Ann Coulter (Universal Press Syndicate, USA)
- Andrew Coyne
- Maureen Dowd (New York Times, USA)
- John Doyle (The Globe and Mail,
- Matt Drudge
- Gwynne Dyer
- Roger Ebert
- Allan Fotheringham
- Benjamin Franklin
- Jonathan Freedland
- Kinky Friedman, (Texas Monthly)
- Thomas Friedman (New York Times, USA)
- David Frum
- Robert Fulford (National Post, Canada)
- A. A. Gill
- Stuart Goldman (Los Angeles Daily News, (Los Angeles Reader)
- Lewis Grizzard
- Victor Davis Hanson
- Carl Hiaasen (Miami Herald, USA)
- Simon Heffer, UK
- Christopher Hitchens
- Peter Hitchens, UK
- Molly Ivins
- Simon Jenkins
- Michael Kinsley
- Dick Kleiner
- Charles Krauthammer (Washington Post, USA)
- Paul Krugman (New York Times, USA)
- Ann Landers
- Michele Landsberg (Toronto Star)
- Richard Littlejohn (The Sun and Daily Mail, UK)
- Charlie Madigan (Chicago Tribune, USA)
- Michelle Malkin
- Heather Mallick (The Globe and Mail, Canada)
- Dan Margalit
- O. O. McIntyre
- Tom Meek
- Vinod Mehta
- George Monbiot (The Guardian, UK)
- Ward Morehouse (The New York Sun, USA)
- Rex Murphy
- Al Neuharth
- Peter C. Newman
- Robert Novak
- Bill O'Reilly (Fox News)
- Clarence Page (Chicago Tribune, USA)
- Kathleen Parker (Washington Post Writers Group, USA)
- Matthew Parris, UK
- William Pfaff (International Herald Tribune, France)
- Daniel Pipes
- Leonard Pitts (Miami Herald, USA)
- Dennis Prager
- Bolesław Prus
- Ted Rall
- Michael Reagan
- Will Rogers
- Andy Rooney
- Parke S. Rouse, Jr. (Daily Press (Virginia), USA)
- Mike Royko
- Amnon Rubinstein (Maariv, Israel)
- William Safire (New York Times, USA)
- Mary Schmich (Chicago Tribune, USA)
- Sylvia Schur
- Jeffrey Simpson
- Tavleen Singh. Her column appears in many English language Indian newspapers.
- Joan Smith
- Thomas Sowell
- Mark Steel
- Mark Steyn
- John Stossel
- Andrew Sullivan
- Ellie Tesher
- Cal Thomas
- Hunter S. Thompson (Rolling Stone and ESPN, USA)
- Polly Toynbee
- Marco Travaglio
- Mark Twain
- Abigail Van Buren
- Ronnie Virgets
- Emmett Watson (The Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
- George Will
- Fareed Zakaria
- Johann Hari
- Terence Blacker
Columnists of note in Japanese-language publications
Nate Fredrickson
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