Columnists on Column Writing

How do you as a columnist approach the craft of writing?  Do you try to get people to think, maybe from a different point of view?  Are you the antagonist who writes to let people disagree?  Do you try to present useful information in a humorous way?  Do you try to tell about something uplifting to brighten the reader’s day?

 What is a good column?  What is the best column you have ever written? 

Dave Newhouse, Oakland Tribune columnist, discusses these and other questions about column-writing with his columnist friends. “Columnists critique themselves” and “The art, and angst, of writing columns

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