The National Society of Newspaper Columnists released a list of the top ten American newspaper columns. The selection was based on an online questionnaire from their website and emailed to it’s members. The columns selected will be featured in Deadline Artists. View the original article here. Download a pdf of the selected columns here.
Here are America’s Top 10 columns, authors, publishers, and date of publication:
- “The Death of Captain Waskow” — Ernie Pyle — Scripps Howard — 1/10/1944
- “Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus” — Francis Pharcellus Church — New York Sun — 9/21/1897
- “A Short Story about the Vietnam War Memorial” — Molly Ivins — Dallas Times Herald — 11/30/1982
- “The Death of Frankie Jerome” — Westbrook Pegler — News Syndicate — 1/18/1924
- “It’s an Honor” — Jimmy Breslin — New York Herald Tribune — 11/26/1963
- “We’ll Go Forward From This Moment” — Leonard Pitts Jr. — The Miami Herald — 9/11/2001
- “He Went All the Way” — Murray Kempton — New York Post — 9/22/1958
- “Pithy into the Wind” — Dave Barry — The Miami Herald — 3/29/1987
- “Daley Embodied Chicago” — Mike Royko — Chicago Sun-Times — 12/21/1976
- “Gamalielese” — H.L. Mencken — Baltimore Sun — 3/7/1921
