columnist

columnist
    n 1: a journalist who writes editorials [syn: {columnist},
         {editorialist}]
    

columnist \col"um*nist\, n.
   a journalist who writes or edits a regularly scheduled
   column[8] in a periodical, usually in editorial style; a type
   of editorialist.
   [RP]

   {fifth columnist} see {fifth columnist} in the vocabulary.
    

92 Moby Thesaurus words for "columnist":
      advertising writer, annalist, art critic, author, authoress,
      belletrist, bibliographer, city editor, coauthor, collaborator,
      compiler, composer, copy chief, copy editor, copyman, copyreader,
      copywriter, correspondent, creative writer, critic, cub reporter,
      dance critic, diarist, diaskeuast, drama critic, dramatist, editor,
      editorial writer, encyclopedist, essayist, feature editor,
      foreign correspondent, free lance, free-lance writer, gazetteer,
      ghost, ghostwriter, humorist, inditer, interviewer, journalist,
      leader writer, leg man, literary artist, literary craftsman,
      literary critic, literary man, litterateur, logographer,
      magazine writer, man of letters, managing editor, monographer,
      music critic, news editor, newsman, newspaperman, newspaperwoman,
      newswriter, novelettist, novelist, own correspondent, pamphleteer,
      paragrapher, paragraphist, penwoman, poet, pressman, prose writer,
      publicist, reader, reporter, reviewer, reviser, rewrite man,
      rewriter, scenario writer, scenarist, scribe, scriptwriter,
      short-story writer, slotman, sob sister, special correspondent,
      sports editor, storyteller, subeditor, technical writer,
      war correspondent, word painter, wordsmith, writer