We identified the opinion writers as a logical place to try paid access simply because our columnists, many of them, are marquee names.

The objections raised by politicians and opinion writers were generally based on misunderstandings of what was actually proposed.

He regularly contributes to many national and local newspapers as an opinion writer.

Krugman, by contrast, is blunt even compared with most opinion writers.

On the bench he has authored many opinions, and was one of the leading opinion writers in the 1990s on the court.

He was a controversial opinion writer of the time.

But it is Georgetown, home of diplomats, opinion writers and policy wonks, where letting go does not come easily.

It attracts international opinion writers to comment on Africa's socio-political and economic development.

After the second of her four children was born in 1985, she quit this job to become an opinion writer and commentator.

The opinion writer chooses which facts to present, and which to withhold.