Writing a newspaper column is easy. Just open a vein and bleed. The origin of that description varies. Famed sports columnist ...

As I was sitting around the other day, procrastinating about writing this column, it occurred to me that if I just got busy I could knock one out in an hour or so. After a few more games of solitaire, ...

In the mid-90s, Ron Howard directed a gritty movie about the inner workings of a daily newspaper. “The Paper” included a memorable rant from the newspaper’s executive editor, played by the actor ...

Every Monday for more than 30 years, Mychal Wilmes starts to think about what will become his next column. “Then it kind of mulls around in my head,” Wilmes said recently over coffee at a cafe in ...

The first article of this column was published on January 8 of this year, marking exactly one year since its debut. Looking back, my time this year has been divided not by the calendar but by the ...

On Dec. 3, I’ll mark 35 years of writing this weather column for The Columbian — a sentence that still surprises me when I put it on paper. When I filed my very first column back in December of 1990, ...

In his years of writing columns, Jerry Apps says he's learned the power of a story and a way to connect to readers.

No golf news this week, so … How and why I started writing the golf column for the Enterprise-Record, and why I play the game. In 2001, when my good friend Milan Murray’s health was waning, ...

Opinion journalists of The Times-Picayune and The Advocate received awards from a national journalism trade association for their editorial writing and commentary on rural Louisiana, vaccines and ...