Much of the typical newspaper's product is outsourced to specialized news services; the average metropolitan newspaper depends heavily on wire services, syndicated columnists, and publishers of specialty magazine inserts for the words and images that fill its pages.
What about cable and radio hosts, newspaper columnists, wire service reporters or amateur journalists breaking news on Twitter?
"Let's get something straight here, Cohen," the great man told Richard Cohen, now a Washington Post columnist but then, in 1967, a wire-service cub.
No one represents this more than Guardiola, "the first great player to come out of the Barcelona system with the Cruyff philosophy wired into his boots," said Martí Perarnau, a sports columnist for El Periódico de Catalunya, a Barcelona-based newspaper.
In addition to her blogging role, Webb is a print journalist who has worked as a newspaper and wire reporter, magazine intern, and most recently as an award-winning online technology columnist for washingtonpost.com.
I am a syndicated political columnist, appearing in The Huffington Post, Salon, Dome Magazine and Taegan Goddard's Political Wire.
"It was a very difficult high-wire act, but he was able to do it," the late William Safire, the New York Times columnist, once said.
Mr. Newsom also had the choice in Davos of participating in the event's "Refugee Run," described by Slate columnist Daniel Gross as "a simulation of life as a refugee, complete with hostile, armed rebels, power outages and barbed wire".
A columnist before columnists were heard of.
