The phrase "a columnist based in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate the location where a columnist works or resides, often in the context of their writing or reporting.
Example: "Jane Doe is a columnist based in New York, covering local politics and culture."
Alternatives: "a columnist located in" or "a columnist residing in".
Costas was, as he noted, quoting, or slightly paraphrasing, Jason Whitlock, a columnist based in Kansas City, "with whom I do not always agree, but who today said it so well".
(Note to boss: Maybe we should have a columnist based in Costa Rica?) What sets Costa Rica apart is its remarkable decision in 1949 to dissolve its armed forces and invest instead in education.
Sultan Al Qassemi, a columnist based in the United Arab Emirates who has tweeted non-stop on the uprisings, passing on information and English translations of key speeches, believes that some claims about the impact of social media need to be taken with a pinch of salt.
When the source is an Assistant Postmaster General, it's going to take a good deal of ingenuity, of course, to figure out just how high he is, but a columnist based in Washington has got to have plenty of that to start with.
In a pair of blog postings last week, Dan Savage, a sex columnist based in Seattle, assigns the blame to negligent teachers and school administrators, bullying classmates and "hate groups that warp some young minds and torment others".
Ashok Malik, a political columnist based in New Delhi, points out that while not a religious guru, Hazare's Gandhian-inspired approach is influential very much in the spiritual sense.
My father, a sports columnist based in Paris in the 1960s, was always testing tips he had gotten from Grand Prix racecar drivers.
Mr. Kashgari, a newspaper columnist based in Jidda, had fled Saudi Arabia amid public outrage after he wrote about an imaginary meeting with the Prophet Muhammad in a series of posts on Twitter, according to news reports.
Swapan Dasgupta, a political columnist based in New Delhi, can be reached at [email protected].
For the next three years, she was a correspondent and columnist based in Singapore, covering Southeast Asia, China and India.
But many Chinese men resist discussing marital problems with marriage counselors or other outside professionals, said Tang Yinghong, a psychologist and columnist based in Leshan, Sichuan Province.
