columnist (n.)
- annalist
- author
- authoress
- bibliographer
- coauthor
- collaborator
- compiler
- composer
- copyreader
- copywriter
- correspondent
- critic
- diarist
- dramatist
- editor
- encyclopedist
- essayist
- gazetteer
- ghost
- ghostwriter
- humorist
- interviewer
- journalist
- litterateur
- newsman
- newspaperman
- newspaperwoman
- newswriter
- novelist
- pamphleteer
- paragrapher
- poet
- pressman
- publicist
- reader
- reporter
- reviewer
- reviser
- rewriter
- scenarist
- scribe
- scriptwriter
- storyteller
- subeditor
- wordsmith
- writer
