Columnist Project for English 10
1. Study the various columnists and find one you like. Your choice can be a political columnist, sports columnist, pop culture columnist, advice columnist, technology columnist, or other types of columnists. There are many columnists in the daily papers, both local and national. Consult the links above to help you search.
2. Select one columnist to study in depth. Collect at least 5 columns. Date each column. Analyze the content, style, and messages of your chosen columnist. Take notes on the various columns you have collected. Identify the territory, style and tone of the columnist. Look for themes or techniques that recur. Each student will do a different columnist for this project. Choices must be approved. Complete and submit the form distributed in class during computer lab research.
3. Write a 2-3 page essay analyzing your selected columnist. Document all references to the columns and columnist. Include at least 3 quotations from your columns. Refer to the handout from class for help with your citations.
4. Due date: As assigned in class.
Ann Landers' popular advice columns from the archive . Landers died June 22, 2004.
Blue Eagle: American Media Columnists with their pictures.
The best of nationally known conservative columnists in one website.
Classroom Columnist Assignment at Binghamton High School
Read columns by a variety of columnists on all aspects of technology.
Straight from the source in Silicon Valley, California. Click on Opinion.
Online website from the American Press Institute where journalists from many countries log on to record their immediate notes and impressions of the news. Many related links on the issues that confront journalists in the field and in the office. Currently covering the latest news from the war in Iraq.
Over 300 articles are now indexed in a variety of magazines and newspapers published since 1998. Organized by category, such as news, technology, sports, etc. This is a searchable database.
These are newspaper articles, not necessarily op-ed pieces.
Look at the front pages of newspapers from 29 countries around the world.
Op-Ed columnist with the Press & Sun-Bulletin
This website targets high school journalism programs and issues that confront high schools and teenagers. It contains articles from local papers dealing with topics of interest to teenagers.
See definition below.
Outstanding international journalism website, well organized, with many links to radio, television, and journalism in foreign countries.
A list of terms used in the study of journalism.
This is the links page that journalists use at the New York Times
News Museum for today's front pages around the world. Includes front pages from 216 newspapers from 26 countries around the world.
Defines New Journalism, Tom Wolfe's influence, and the newest term, literary journalism
U.S. (by state) and World News (by region): multimedia
Well organized pages of columns & letters from all over the country and the world
A collection of photographs by famous photographers in the world of photojournalism, such as Annie Leibowitz, Taro Yamasaki, Harry Benson, Scott Thode, and others
A French photojournalist captures extraordinary footage of the initial attack on the World Trade Center from the firemen's point of view
Political cartoons from all over the USA and the world can be found here at Daryl Cagle's website. An excellent source!
Op-Ed Pages from the local newspaper in Binghamton, NY. Read the columns, editorials, guest viewpoints, and letters to the editor. Look for local columnist Dave Rossie on the Op-Ed pages.
This is the most important award given in the field of journalism.The site includes current and archived awards as well as information about the origin and history of the award.
Reference Desk is an astonishing website. On this page you will find a comprehensive array of newspapers and magazines, cartoonists and columnists, as well as the major news channels on the Internet.
Very comprehensive list of op-ed sections of newspapers by state.Page down to an alphabetical listing of columnists.
Op-Ed pieces from the Sacramento Bee newspaper in California
Over 60 of the best nationally known conservative columnists.
