opinion pieces
Published personal viewpoints
Opinion pieces are articles expressing the author's personal views rather than reporting objective facts.
They appear in newspapers, magazines, and online publications, typically on editorial pages or clearly labeled opinion sections.
Columnists, guest contributors, and editorial boards write opinion pieces to argue positions, interpret events, or provoke debate: The paper ran several opinion pieces on the proposed legislation.
- columnistRecurring newspaper feature writer
- guest columnArticle by outside contributor
- editorialPublication's official viewpoint article
- op-edSigned newspaper commentary
- op-ed pageSection for opinion essays
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- newspaper sectionsnews, sports, editorial, business, classifieds
- student magazinesschool newspaper, student news, campus paper, yearbook, literary magazine
- articlesarticle, magazine article, features, feature stories, columns
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Factual, timely journalism
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Newly unfolding events reported
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