Columnists for my commentary class – 2013

Here are links to a number of columnists and columnist index pages from newspapers around the country for my commentary writing students, and anyone else who’s interested.

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 recent column on Anderson Cooper that addresses the issue that Jay Rosen calls The View From Nowhere.  You can get a collection of his columns in book form here.
• Kathleen Parker, Washington Post Writers Group
  2010 Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist.  While she has recently been a co-host on CNN, her real gift is as a center right columnist.
• 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.
• David Broder, Washington Post Writers Group
  Broder is famous for writing a editorial column that often analyzes without taking a point of view. He won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for commentary.
• E.J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post Writers Group
  Dionne is a liberal Catholic columnist for the Washington Post who takes a fairly serious, measured response.  Provocative without being a flame-thrower.  He recently called for the Catholic church to name a nun as pope.
• Courtland Milloy – Washington Post local columnist