gossip columnist

Since I was toiling away at the time as a gossip columnist for The Washington Post, I immediately called him back.

This brief, innocent encounter was talked up by the waspish gossip columnist Rona Barrett.

Tim Walker, a long-standing gossip columnist at the paper, today wrote a story headlined, "Does Stephen Fry Write His Own Tweets?"

Elsa Maxwell was famous for being famous, a gossip columnist and party planner who knew whom to invite and whom to leave out.

This is not some low-rent gossip columnist or celebrity stalker.