Today, the prospect of an opinion columnist doing medical research before dashing off a column sounds positively quaint.

As an opinion columnist, let's be honest, you sort of have to be; it rather goes with the territory.

Opinion columnist in various media and literary critic.

Nor was it one of those ponderous state-of-the-nation dramas that seem to have been dreamt up to be watched only by opinion columnists.

Opinion columnists are also hired at the beginning or end of the semester.