Column (periodical)

The column ( the column of the print pack, from Latin columna, " pillar ", " pillar") referred to in the press as well as online journalism a short opinion piece as small journalistic form. The author of a regularly appearing column is also known as a columnist.

Term

In the print media, the term is mainly used for a journalistic form. It is a short opinion piece that extends mostly over no more than a newspaper column. These columns usually appear regularly in the same place with the same title as the famous, in selecting published as a separate book sidelight on the first page of Süddeutsche Zeitung. Often, it is also available as column name of a single author. The the daily newspaper ( taz) has a fixed name column that changes every week, for example, in each issue. Occasionally columns are an important tradition and loyalty motive for newspaper readers, as for example in the quality Dublin newspaper The Irish Times. Often, the column is also used by the editor of the publication in the form of an editorial to illustrate the editorial policy and opinion as to current events.

The column related parties and not always clearly distinguishable from it are the glosses, the Causerie and the comment.

History

The first newspaper columnist was John Hill, who started with a daily column in the London Advertiser and Literary Gazette on March 11, 1751. He wrote under the pseudonym of " The Inspector" ( The inspector ). The first active in Austria was columnist Wolfgang Kornke in the years 1810-1818.

Many writers have become known later worked as a columnist before them his breakthrough as an author; already arrivierten writers lucrative fees on the other hand offered to take advantage of the promotional effect of a famous name of newspaper publishers. The same applies to non-active politicians.

Outside the German-speaking world, especially in the U.S. and in the Latin countries, Latin America, often successful writers work simultaneously and not primarily for financial reasons as columnists, either regularly for one and the same sheet or as a guest columnist in various media.