Top American Columnist Froma Harrop Latest Addition to GoLocal

Top American Columnist Froma Harrop Latest Addition to GoLocal

Froma Harrop is one of the top columnists in the United States — now, she joins the collection of top-rated writers at GoLocal.

Harrop covers the waterfront of politics, economics and culture with an unconventional approach. She takes public policy quite seriously. Herself, less so.

“Harrop writes like no one else in American journalism as she harvests columns from high, low and middle-brow culture, politics, business and economics and other topics that come her way as a result of her intense curiosity and hard research," said Robert Whitcomb, GoLocal columnist and long-time editor of the editorial page for The Providence Journal. "She often identifies important developments that others in the media haven't recognized. She gracefully adjusts her voice as needed from the clinical to the comic to the tragic while keeping close at hand a keen sense of the absurd.”

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“While most people might call her an old-fashioned, FDR-style liberal, she also has a libertarian streak and a strong respect for tradition -- especially for decorum and basic courtesies that often seem about to disappear from American life. She divides her time mostly between homes in New York City and Providence, where she was on the editorial board of The Providence Journal and a very popular columnist,” added Whitcomb.

Harrop is the recipient of numerous awards and honors. She has worked on the Reuters business desk, edited economics reports for The New York Times news service and served on the Providence Journal editorial board. She has written for such diverse publications as The New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar and Institutional Investor.

Harrop has been seen on MSNBC and PBS and heard on NPR and many other radio outlets. And she is currently a contributor to CNN Opinion.

She joins GoLocal’s cadre of regular opinion writers and contributors on news, politics, and business including Whitcomb, Rob Horowitz, Mac Owens, Jennifer Lawless, Raymond "Two Hawks" Watson, Mark Curtis, Dr. Ed Iannucilli, and Will Morgan.

Harrop will be published weekly.

Her column is distributed by Creators.