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Greetings, SAM readers.

For the past two weeks, I have shared a breakdown of the differences between news articles and editorial items, after SAM began a partnership with Trusting News, a project of the Reynolds Journalism Institute and American Press Institute.

We worked to devise strategies that promote responsible and ethical journalism.

One goal I established, through the project, is to provide a breakdown of what makes a news article, an editorial and a column.

This week, I will address the third portion: column writing.

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