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List Of Newspaper Columnists
This is a list of notable newspaper columnists. It does not include magazine or electronic columnists. English-language Australia * Phillip Adams (born 1939), ''The Australian'' * Piers Akerman (born 1950), ''The Daily Telegraph'' * Janet Albrechtsen (born 1966), ''The Australian'' * Andrew Bolt (born 1959), ''Herald Sun'', Melbourne * Leslie Cannold (born 1965), ''The Age'' Melbourne; ''The Sun Herald , Sydney''; ''Crikey'' * Mike Carlton (born 1946), ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' * Nick Cater, ''The Australian'' * Peta Credlin (born 1971), ''The Australian'' * Henry Ergas, ''The Australian'' * Elizabeth Farrelly, ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' * Nikki Gemmell (born 1966), ''The Australian'' * Robert Gottliebsen (born 1941), ''The Australian'' * Sarah Holland-Batt (born 1982), ''The Australian'' * Danny Katz (born 1960s), ''The Age'' Melbourne; ''The Sydney Morning Herald''; ''The West Australian'' * Gavin King (born 1979), ''The Cairns Post'' * Bjørn Lomborg (born 1965 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columnist
A columnist is a person who writes for publication in a series, creating an article that usually offers commentary and opinions. Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and other publications, including blogs. They take the form of a 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. Radio and television Newspaper columnists of the 1930s and 1940s, such as Franklin Pierce Adams (also known as FPA), Nick Kenny, John Crosby, Jimmie Fidler, Louella Parsons, Drew Pearson, Ed Sullivan and Walter Winchell, achieved a celebrity status and used their syndicated columns 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 newspap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bjørn Lomborg
Bjørn Lomborg (; born 6 January 1965) is a Danish author and president of the think tank Copenhagen Consensus Center. He is former director of the Danish government's Environmental Assessment Institute (EAI) in Copenhagen. He became internationally known for his best-selling and controversial book '' The Skeptical Environmentalist'' (2001). His first book, ''The Skeptical Environmentalist'', which argued many environmental issues are overstated, attracted criticism from the scientific community and brought Lomborg popular media attention. In 2002, Lomborg and the Environmental Assessment Institute founded the Copenhagen Consensus. In 2004, he was listed as one of ''Time's'' 100 most influential people. In his subsequent book, ''Cool It'' (2007), and its film adaptation, Lomborg outlined his views on global warming, many of which contradict the scientific consensus on climate change. These include his view that negative impacts are overstated and his opposition to climate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Landsberg
Michele Landsberg OC, (born 12 July 1939) is a Canadian journalist, author, public speaker, feminist and social activist. She is known for writing three bestselling books, including ''Women and Children First'', ''This is New York, Honey!'', and ''Michele Landsberg's Guide to Children's Books''. She has written columns for the ''Toronto Star'', ''The Globe and Mail'', and ''Chatelaine'' magazine, and is one of the first journalists in Canada to address sexual harassment in the workplace, racial discrimination in education and employment opportunities, and lack of gender equality in divorce and custodial legal proceedings. In 2005, the Canadian Women's Foundation established the Michele Landsberg Award in her honour, to recognize outstanding young women (ages 18–30) and their accomplishments in media and activism. In 2006, Landsberg was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. , she is a member of the Women's College Hospital Board of Directors. Personal life Michele Landsberg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chantal Hébert
Chantal St-Cyr Hébert (born 1954) is a Canadian journalist and political commentator. Life and career Hébert was born on April 24, 1954, in Ottawa, Ontario. She is the oldest of five children. In 1966 her family moved to Toronto where the 12-year-old was enrolled in École secondaire catholique Monseigneur-de-Charbonnel. She then attended Toronto's first public francophone high school, École secondaire Étienne-Brûlé.CBC News, , The National, Retrieved November 22, 2012 After high school, Hébert obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1976 in political science from the bilingual Glendon College of York University.Book Lounge Canada, She is a Senior Fellow of Massey College at the University of Toronto. Hébert began her media career in 1975 at the regional television and radio newsroom of the French-language Radio-Canada facility in Toronto. She eventually became their reporter covering provincial politics at Queen's Park. After Radio-Canada appointed Hébert to cover f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcus Gee
Marcus Gee is an urban affairs columnist for ''The Globe and Mail'', Canada's largest national daily newspaper, which he joined in 1991. He was born in Toronto and graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1979 with a degree in modern European history. He has worked as a reporter for the Vancouver morning newspaper, ''The Province''; as an editor, writer and correspondent for ''Asiaweek'' magazine; as a reporter for United Press International in Manila and Sydney; as a foreign affairs writer at ''Maclean's ''Maclean's'', founded in 1905, is a Canadian news magazine reporting on Canadian issues such as politics, pop culture, and current events. Its founder, publisher John Bayne Maclean, established the magazine to provide a uniquely Canadian persp ...'' and as senior editor at ''The Financial Times of Canada''. Gee also worked as an Asia-Pacific Business reporter from 2007 to 2009. In 2002, Amnesty International gave him its annual John Humphrey award for human righ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Fulford (journalist)
Robert Marshall Blount Fulford (born February 13, 1932) is a Canadian journalist, magazine editor, and essayist. He lives in Toronto, Ontario. Personal life Fulford was born in Ottawa, Ontario to Frances (Blount) Fulford and A. E. Fulford, a journalist and editor at Canadian Press. He grew up in The Beaches neighbourhood in Toronto and was a childhood friend of Glenn Gould. He is married to writer and producer Geraldine Sherman, with whom he has two daughters. His daughter Sarah became editor-in-chief of ''Maclean's'' magazine in February 2022, after serving as editor-in-chief of " Toronto Life" magazine for 14 years. Career Fulford's media career began at the age of 16, while still in high school, when he worked for Toronto radio station CHUM reporting on high school sports and producing a weekly radio show for teenagers. In the summer of 1950, Fulford left high school and went to work for ''The Globe and Mail'' as a sports reporter. Subsequently, Fulford rose to vario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Frum
David Jeffrey Frum (; born June 30, 1960) is a Canadian-American political commentator and a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, who is currently a senior editor at ''The Atlantic'' as well as an MSNBC contributor. In 2003, Frum authored the first book about Bush's presidency written by a former member of the administration. He has taken credit for the famous phrase " axis of evil" in Bush's 2002 State of the Union address. Frum formerly served on the board of directors of the Republican Jewish Coalition, the British think tank Policy Exchange, the anti-drug policy group Smart Approaches to Marijuana, and as vice chairman and an associate fellow of the R Street Institute. Frum is the son of Canadian journalist Barbara Frum. Background Born in Toronto, Ontario to a Jewish family, Frum is the son of the late Barbara Frum (née Rosberg), a well-known, Niagara Falls, New York-born journalist and broadcaster in Canada, and the late Murray Frum, a dentist, who lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwynne Dyer
Michael Gwynne Dyer (born 17 April 1943) is a British-Canadian military historian, author, professor, journalist, broadcaster, and retired naval officer. Dyer rose to prominence in the 1980s with the release of his television series ''War'' in 1983 and the publication of an accompanying book in 1985. Since the 1960s he has lived in London, England, where he works as a syndicated columnist. Dyer is a noted expert in Middle Eastern affairs, having completed his graduate work in this area and written several books on the subject. More recently he has focused on climate change and its geopolitical consequences. Biography Dyer was born during World War II in St. John's, in the then British crown colony the Dominion of Newfoundland. When Newfoundland joined Canada on 31 March 1949 he became ''de jure'' a Canadian citizen. Dyer joined the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve at the age of sixteen. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in history from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1963, a M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Doyle (critic)
John Doyle (born 1957) is a Canadian writer who is a television critic at ''The Globe and Mail''. Early life John Doyle was born in 1957 in Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland, and came to Canada in 1980. Career Doyle was first hired by ''The Globe and Mail'' to write for ''Broadcast Week'', the paper's weekly television listings, as a columnist. In 2000, he was appointed the newspaper's daily television critic. Doyle also covers soccer for the paper. His writing on soccer has appeared in ''The New York Times'', ''The Guardian'', the ECW Press anthology ''Best Canadian Sports Writing'', and the soccer magazine ''Eight by Eight''. In 2005, Doyle published his first book, the memoir ''A Great Feast of Light: Growing Up Irish in the Television Age'' about his early life in deeply conservative rural Ireland, and the book ''The World is a Ball: The Joy, Madness, and Meaning of Soccer''. Doyle has covered multiple FIFA World Cup, Euro tournaments, and the FIFA Women's World Cup. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Coyne
James Andrew Coyne (born December 23, 1960) is a Canadian columnist with ''The Globe and Mail'' and a member of the ''At Issue'' panel on CBC's '' The National''. Previously, he has been national editor for ''Maclean's'' and a columnist with ''National Post''. Early life and education Coyne was born in Ottawa, Ontario, the son of Hope Meribeth Cameron (née Stobie) and James Elliott Coyne, who was governor of the Bank of Canada from 1955 to 1961. His paternal great-grandfather was historian and lawyer James Henry Coyne. His sister is actress Susan Coyne. He is also the cousin of constitutional lawyer Deborah Coyne, who is the mother of Pierre Trudeau's youngest child. Coyne graduated from Kelvin High School in Winnipeg. Coyne studied at the University of Manitoba where he became the editor of '' The Manitoban'' student newspaper. He also spent two years reporting for the '' Winnipeg Sun''. In 1981, Coyne transferred to the University of Toronto's Trinity College, where his cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Amiel
Barbara Joan Estelle Amiel, Baroness Black of Crossharbour, DSS (born 4 December 1940), is a British-Canadian conservative journalist, writer, and socialite. She is married to former media proprietor Conrad Black. Early life and career Amiel was born into a Jewish family in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, the daughter of Vera Isserles (née Barnett) and Harold Joffre Amiel. A cousin was the oncologist, broadcaster and humorist Rob Buckman. Her father, originally a solicitor, became a Lieutenant Colonel serving in Italy during World War II, but was discharged because of injury. Her parents divorced when she was eight, after her father left her mother for another woman. Amiel attended North London Collegiate School in Edgware, Greater London, an independent girls' school. Amiel's mother remarried and, in November 1952, the couple emigrated with Barbara, her sister and half-brother, to Hamilton, Ontario. She never saw her biological father again after her mother remarried. Fami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Sloan
Judith Sloan (born 22 November 1954) ''Encyclopedia of Australian Science'' is an Australian economist. Sloan was born in Melbourne. She has been teaching as a university professor at Flinders University and the Curtin Institute of Technology and is an honorary professorial at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Res ...
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