• Further reading

• Willings Press Guide(134th ed. 3 vol. 2010), comprehensive guide to world press. Vol 1 UK, Vol 2 Europe and Vol 3 World.ISBN 1-906035-17-2

• Editor and Publisher International Year Book(90th ed. 2009), comprehensive guide to American newspapers

• Conley, David, and Stephen Lamble. The Daily Miracle: An Introduction to Journalism(3rd ed. 2006), 518pp; global viewpoint

• Harrower, Tim. The Newspaper Designer's Handbook(6th ed. 2007)excerpt and text search

• Jones, Alex.Losing the News: The Future of the News That Feeds Democracy(2009)

• Sousa, Jorge Pedro Sousa (Coord.); Maria do Carmo Castelo Branco; Mário Pinto; Sandra Tuna; Gabriel Silva; Eduardo Zilles Borba; Mônica Delicato; Carlos Duarte; Nair Silva; Patrícia Teixeira. A Gazeta "da Restauração": Primeiro Periódico Português. Uma análise do discurso VOL. II — Reproduções(2011)ISBN 978-989-654-061-6[3]

• Walravens, Hartmut, ed. Newspapers in Central And Eastern Europe(2004) 251pp

• Williams, Kevin. Read All About It!: A History of the British Newspaper(2009)excerpt and text search

• External links

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• Newspapercat – University of Florida Historical Digital Newspaper Catalog Collection

• Historical newspaper database, from NewspaperARCHIVE.com

Chronicling America: Historic American NewspapersfromNational Digital Newspaper Program

• Columnist

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Heading for O. O. McIntyre's columns, collected in his 1935 bestseller,The Big Town

A columnistis someone who writes for publication in a series, creating an article that usually offers commentary and opinions.Columnsappear innewspapers,magazinesand other publications, includingblogs.

Readers often open a publication with an expectation of reading another short essay by a specific writer who offers a personal point of view. In some instances, a column has been written by a composite or a team, appearing under a pseudonym, or (in effect) a brand name. Some columnists appear on a daily or weekly basis and later reprint the same material in book collections.

In defining a column, Dictionary.com provides a breakdown of a few popular subjects covered by columnists:

A regular feature or series of articles in a newspaper, magazine, or the like, usually having a readily identifiable heading and the byline of the writer or editor, that reports or comments upon a particular field of interest, as politics, theater or etiquette, or which may contain letters from readers, answers to readers' queries, etc.[1]

• Contents

• 1 Radio and television

• 2 Books

• 3 Magazines

• 4 Types of columnists

• 5 See also

• 6 References

• 7 External links

• Radio and television

Newspaper columnists of the 1930s and 1940s, such as Franklin Pierce Adams(aka FPA),Nick Kenny,John Crosby,Jimmie Fidler,Louella Parsons,Drew Pearson,Ed SullivanandWalter Winchell, achieved a celebrity status and used theirsyndicatedcolumns as a springboard to move into radio and television. In some cases, such as Winchell and Parsons, their radio programs were quite similar in format to their newspaper columns.Rona Barrettbegan as a Hollywood gossip columnist in 1957, duplicating her print tactics on television by the mid-1960s. One of the more famous syndicated columnists of the 1920s and 1930s,O. O. McIntyre, declined offers to do a radio series because he felt it would interfere and diminish the quality of writing in his column, "New York Day by Day."

• Books

FPA and McIntyre both collected their columns into a series of books, as did other columnists. McIntyre's book, The Big Town: New York Day by Day(1935) was a bestseller. FPA'sThe Melancholy Lute(1936) collected selections from three decades of his columns.H. Allen Smith's first humor book,Low Man on a Totem Pole(1941) and his two following books were so popular duringWorld War IIthat they kept Smith on theNew York Herald Tribune's Best Seller List for 100 weeks and prompted a collection of all three in3 Smiths in the Wind(1946). When Smith's column,The Totem Pole, was syndicated by United Features, he toldTime:

Just between you and me, it's tough. A typewriter can be a pretty formidable contraption when you sit down in front of it and say: "All right, now I'm going to be funny."[2]

The writing of French humor columnistAlain Rémondhas been collected in books.The Miami Heraldpromoted humor columnistDave Barrywith this description: "Dave Barry has been atThe Miami Heraldsince 1983. APulitzer Prizewinner for commentary, he writes about issues ranging from the international economy to exploding toilets." Barry has collected his columns into a series of successful books. He stopped writing his nationally syndicated weekly column in 2005, andThe Miami Heraldnow offers on its website a lengthy selection of past columns by Barry.[3]

In 1950, Editor & Publisherlooked back at the newspaper columnists of the 1920s:

"Feature service of various sorts is new," Hallam Walker Davis wrote in a book,The Column, which was published in 1926. "It has had the advantage of high-powered promotion. It is still riding on the crest of the first big wave its own splash sent out." But Mr. Davis did think that in a decade or two the newspapers might be promoting their columns along with their comic strips.The Worldhad started the ball rolling with billboard advertising ofHeywood Broun's "It Seems to Me." TheMcNaught Syndicatewas sitting pretty with O. O. McIntyre,Will RogersandIrvin S. Cobbon its list.The New York Herald TribuneofferedDon Marquisand Franklin P. Adams rhymed satirically in "The Conning Tower" for the New York World Syndicate. "A Line o' Type Or Two," Bert Leston Taylor's verse column in theChicago Tribune, was now being done by Richard Henry Little. Other offerings: humorous sketches byDamon Runyon;O. Henrystories; editorials byArthur Brisbane;Ring Lardnerletter; "Rippling Rhymes," by Walt Mason; literary articles byH. L. Mencken.[4]