Originally Posted by Metlo

EDITORIAL...max leaner defines it
'editorial is a comment on those trends which lie at the core of daily occurences.'
to clarify further, editorial is written on the news, events, accidents etc that have happend recently,,just before the day of publication of newspaper. They don't contain any name of the writer because they are written on the behalf on the newspaper.
You may see 3 editorials written daily in DAWN .
COLUMNs are published on editorial pages which are auxiliary to editorials. They contain the name of their authors.
FEATURE is an objective essay written on some abstract topic.