Articles, columns and editorials – oh my!

We, the staff at the newspaper business, sometimes catch a lot of “slack” from our readers for various things. Either we printed a story/letter/column they didn’t like, put their name in the paper for something they did, didn’t print a story they thought we should have known about, or didn’t write the story quite the way they thought we should have. That’s okay though, it all goes with the territory. However, this column is dedicated to explaining the difference between “article,” “column” and “editorial.” These three words often seem interchangeable, but in fact have three totally different meanings. Many times, someone has taken offense at an editorial opinion an