Columns (Writing not the greek architecture principal)

Columns

   What is a column? A column is not a news article, but it is news. It generally answers why and how. It often is personal, using the first and second person (I and you). An extensive yet, short style of writing, is exactly what columns are in the Journalistic Style format. Columns are the most personal of all newspaper writing. They have a very personal appeal, an authoritative influence, and very useful contribution to make in spreading news and opinions.They're written to inform, to influence, or to entertain readers.They're high in reader-interest for they stimulate public discussion of the day's affairs. 

   The main purpose of the column is to inform, interpret, and to a large degree, to fiscalize. To explain the news. The columnist has to explain their significance and consequence by, giving the background of an event or determining whether a certain event is an isolate case or part of the pattern, pointing out how the event will affect or not affect his readers. Pulling together and assessing comments of readers from the different segments of society. 

    Qualifications of columnist
  1. Ability to write good English or Arabic, whichever is his medium and depending on where they are in the world. 
  2. Originality, creative ability, and imagination. A columnist can't copy the work of others his work has to be creative and unique
  3. Writing skill, a forceful, flexible style. They need to maintain a separate style of writing that specializes them in their field. 
  4. Ability to observe keenly.
  5. Clear, logical thinking.
  6. Wide background.
  7. Resourcefulness.
  8. Have a sense of fairness.
  9. Sense of humor.
Being a column writer is probably one of the best styles of writing a journalist could have as its straight to the point and simple, it also requires nothing more than being literate and having sense of personality that can be identified and unique in their own sense. 

https://becomeawritertoday.com/newspaper-column-ideas/ -- Here's a link to help the mind juices flow and give you ideas of columns to write about 
https://www.coroflot.com/lizhochstedler/column-writing-samples -- A link that offers samples on columns and what they should look like. 

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