columnist
/ˈkɒləm(n)ɪst
/noun
A journalist contributing regularly to a newspaper or magazine.He is a graduate student at Harvard University and a columnist for the Journalist magazine....
- For many newspaper editors and columnists, some sections of society seem to be fair game.
- It's worth remembering that newspaper columnists write one or maybe two features a week.
Synonyms
writer, feature writer, contributor, journalist, correspondent, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newsman, newswoman;
wordsmith, man/woman of letters, penman;
humorist, critic, reviewer, commentator, chronicler;
French littérateur
informal scribbler, scribe, pen-pusher, hack, hackette, journo, talking head
North American informal thumbsucker