Here are links to a number of columnists and columnist index pages from newspapers around the country for my JMC 406 commentary writing students, and anyone else who’s interested. It has been published here multiple times in different forms.
National Columnists
- Leonard Pitts, Miami Herald
2004 Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist. His column written in response to the events of 9/11 struck a strong chord with readers. One of my favorite columnists. (I really liked his 2011 column on Anderson Cooper that addresses the issue that Jay Rosen calls The View From Nowhere. - Kathleen Parker, Washington Post Writers Group
2010 Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist. While she has been a co-host on CNN, her real gift is as a center right columnist. Among her Pulitzer portfolio was a great look at how inconvenient it can be that men and women are different. (And here is another post I put up on Parker for you to take a look at.) - George Will, Washington Post Writer’s Group
1977 Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, known as an “old guard” commentator who drops a lot of Latin and literature references into his columns, and writes occasionally about baseball. - E.J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post Writers Group
Dionne is a liberal Catholic columnist and blogger for the Washington Post who takes a fairly serious, measured response. Provocative without being a flame-thrower. When Pope Benedict stepped down in 2013, he called for the Catholic church to name a nun as pope. - Colbert King – Washington Post local columnist
King writes about DC as well as politics for the Post. He won the Pulitzer for commentary in 2003. He had a lengthy column on the occasion of Sen. Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday titled “No Party for Essie Mae” that gives us a powerful look at the issue of segregation and race in the United States. - Marc A. Thiessen – Washington Post
Writes about public policy for the Post; is also fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. - David Brooks – New York Times
Thoughtful, centrist columnist. Sometimes critiqued for being too wishy-washy. - Gail Collins – New York Times
Collins was the first woman to be the Times editorial page editor.
Critics
- Robin Givhan – Washington Post
Fashion criticism, Pulitzer Prize winner - Emily Nussbaum – The New Yorker
Television critic; Pulitzer Prize winner - Jonathan Gold – LA Times
The late food critic for the LA Times, he won the Pulitzer while at LA Weekly. - Ann Hornaday – Washington Post
Movie critic.
Local and Regional Columnists
- Courtland Milloy – Washington Post
Writing about local issues in the DC area.