Inc.com defines a syndicated columnist as, "[A] person hired by publications or broadcast organizations to produce written or spoken commentary about specific feature subjects."
Examples
In written form, syndicated columns generally appear in numerous publications with a reader base that may span an entire nation or beyond. Examples include:
- Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
- Timothy Garton Ash
- Dave Barry
- Lucius Beebe
- Max Boot
- David Brooks
- Rosa Brooks
- Jonathan Chait
- Noam Chomsky
- Alexander Cockburn
- Andrew Cockburn
- Patrick Cockburn
- Ann Coulter
- Maureen Dowd
- Niall Ferguson
- Thomas Friedman
- Robert Fisk
- David Frum
- Francis Fukuyama
- Jonah Goldberg
- Johann Hari
- Amira Hass
- Seymour Hersh
- Dilip Hiro
- Christopher Hitchens
- Peter Hitchens
- Molly Ivins
- Paul Johnson (writer)
- Garrison Keillor
- Kitty Kelley
- Naomi Klein
- Dave Kopel
- Charles Krauthammer
- Paul Krugman
- Christina Lamb
- George Monbiot
- Greg Palast
- William Pfaff
- Jeanne Phillips (Dear Abby)
- Melanie Phillips
- John Pilger
- Daniel Pipes
- Katha Pollitt
- Salman Rushdie
- Anna Quindlen
- Thomas Sowell
- Mark Steyn
- Andrew Sullivan
- Jennifer Vanasco
- Gore Vidal
- George Will
- Walter Winchell
- Bob Woodward
- Fareed Zakaria
- Howard Zinn
- Walter Williams
In broadcast formats such as television or radio, syndicated columnists host regularly scheduled segments with particular topics or themes which are carried by multiple stations within a network, usually also nation-wide or world-wide. Syndicated radio and television columnists include:
