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recurring piece or article in a periodical

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Encyclopedic overview

A column is a recurring article in a newspaper, magazine or other publication, in which a writer expresses their own opinion in a section allotted to them on a regular basis by the publication. The author of a column is a columnist.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “column” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.