<p>If you've published an article in a newspaper, would you list that under the "honors, distinctions section" of the common app? also what distinction or honor would that be called? ___newspaper publisher?</p>
<p>if you write for the Newspaper, put it under EC</p>
<p>if you wrote just that one article, you could do honor, and list it as something like "article featured in SoAndSo Times"</p>
<p>That depends on the newspaper i guess. What newspaper?</p>
<p>I would not call that an honor. This is one of those things you would list on a resume or at the end of the common application where it asks if you'd care to add anything. And certainly you are not the publisher.. that's the owner of the paper. You are a contributing writer (if you do so regularly around the same subject - education, sports or whatever - you might be called a contributing columnist and perhaps that would fit into EC's), a guest writer if it is a one time submission, and if it's a letter to the editor and it's longer than 500 words, it might be called an editorial, and if it's less, I think you're just a concerned citizen. And if you've been regularly paid or go to editorial meetings, you are a staff writer.</p>
<p>I've been all of the above at some point or another. Make sure you mention the name of the paper and the date in which your article appeared unless it's weekly or monthly, then you'd obviously add that.</p>