Gawker: Newspaper Columnists are Too Old

By: Chris O'Shea | MediaBistro

Gawker has uncovered something fairly obvious: The majority of newspaper columnists are old dudes. The site crunched the data for columnists at The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. It also included columnists at The Creators Syndicate, Universal Press, King Features and Tribune Media. Gawker found that the average and median age was about 60.