Columbia Daily Spectator
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Columbia Daily Spectator is the daily student newspaper of Columbia University. It is published at 112th and Broadway in New York, New York. Founded in 1877, it is the oldest continuously operating college news daily in the nation after The Harvard Crimson
, and has been legally independent of the university since 1962. It is printed weekdays during the academic term. In addition to serving as a campus newspaper, the Spec, as it is commonly known, also reports the latest news of the surrounding Morningside Heights community. The paper is delivered each day to over 150 locations throughout the Morningside Heights neighborhood and has a circulation of 8,000.
Spectators writing departments, each headed by one or two editors, include campus news, city news, sports, arts and entertainment, and opinion. The other non-writing departments, also headed by their own respective editors, include photography, design, online, production, copy, and business. The business departments, which oversee the newspaper's advertising, finances, and alumni relations, are headed by the publisher.
Spec is currently run by the 135th managing board. First-time writers at Columbia begin their time at the paper with a 1- to 2-month trial period, during which they learn the basics of writing an article and publish their first articles. At some point, when their department editor sees fit, they become staff writers. Each November and December, students run for positions at the paper, a grueling process that takes nearly a month. They begin by "shadowing," or sitting with the current editors or associate editors and learning the editing process. Next they write proposals for their desired position. The students then take an editing test made up by their department editor that tests them on the fundamentals of editing. Finally, they go through the "Turkey Shoot," an interview in which the current managing board grills the applicant on why the writer feels that they would be a good fit for the position. The results of the application process, including the new managing board are announced in mid-December, the weekend before finals.
The next year, in February 2006, the paper launched a series of blogs, SpecBlogs. They were the third Ivy League
paper to do this, after the Harvard Crimson
's Sports Blog (December 2005) and The Daily Pennsylvanian
's TheBuzz (January 2006).
In September 2006, Spectator staff launched The Eye, a weekly magazine featuring investigative pieces and commentary on Columbia and New York City. The name of The Eye relates both to the fact that one "spectates" with it and urban theorist Jane Jacobs
' notion that "eyes on the street" help keep neighborhoods safe.
In March 2010, Spec launched a new blog, Spectrum, which is updated several times a day with breaking news, columns, and features.
Managing Editor: Michele Cleary
Publisher: Aditya Mukerjee
Campus News Editor: Leah Greenbaum
City News Editor: Sarah Darville
Opinion Editors: Gabriella Porrino and Rebekah Mays
Arts & Entertainment Editor: Allison Malecha
Sports Editors: Mrinal Mohanka and Jim Pagels
Eye Editor in Chief: Amanda Cormier
Eye Managing Editor Ashton Cooper
Eye Art Director: Cindy Pan
Design Editors: Jeremy Bleeke and Ann Chou
Photo Editor: Phoebe Lytle
Head Copy Editor: Alex Collazzo
Online Content Editor: Jake Davidson
Spectrum Editor: Mikey Zhong
Finance Director: Spencer Duhaime
Sales Director: Mabel McLean
Alumni Director: Andrew Hitti
Staff Director: Hannah D'Apice
The Harvard Crimson
The Harvard Crimson, the daily student newspaper of Harvard University, was founded in 1873. It is the only daily newspaper in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is run entirely by Harvard College undergraduates...
, and has been legally independent of the university since 1962. It is printed weekdays during the academic term. In addition to serving as a campus newspaper, the Spec, as it is commonly known, also reports the latest news of the surrounding Morningside Heights community. The paper is delivered each day to over 150 locations throughout the Morningside Heights neighborhood and has a circulation of 8,000.
Organization
Spectator is published by the Spectator Publishing Company, an independent non-profit organization. The president of the Spectator Publishing Company also serves as the publisher of the Columbia Daily Spectator.Spectators writing departments, each headed by one or two editors, include campus news, city news, sports, arts and entertainment, and opinion. The other non-writing departments, also headed by their own respective editors, include photography, design, online, production, copy, and business. The business departments, which oversee the newspaper's advertising, finances, and alumni relations, are headed by the publisher.
Spec is currently run by the 135th managing board. First-time writers at Columbia begin their time at the paper with a 1- to 2-month trial period, during which they learn the basics of writing an article and publish their first articles. At some point, when their department editor sees fit, they become staff writers. Each November and December, students run for positions at the paper, a grueling process that takes nearly a month. They begin by "shadowing," or sitting with the current editors or associate editors and learning the editing process. Next they write proposals for their desired position. The students then take an editing test made up by their department editor that tests them on the fundamentals of editing. Finally, they go through the "Turkey Shoot," an interview in which the current managing board grills the applicant on why the writer feels that they would be a good fit for the position. The results of the application process, including the new managing board are announced in mid-December, the weekend before finals.
Recent spinoffs
In 2005, Spec started printing La Página, a weekly flyer in Spanish with translations of some of the week's English content most relevant to neighborhood readers.The next year, in February 2006, the paper launched a series of blogs, SpecBlogs. They were the third Ivy League
Ivy League
The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group...
paper to do this, after the Harvard Crimson
Harvard Crimson
The Harvard Crimson are the athletic teams of Harvard University. The school's teams compete in NCAA Division I. As of 2006, there were 41 Division I intercollegiate varsity sports teams for women and men at Harvard, more than at any other NCAA Division I college in the country...
's Sports Blog (December 2005) and The Daily Pennsylvanian
The Daily Pennsylvanian
The Daily Pennsylvanian is the independent daily student newspaper of the University of Pennsylvania.It is published every weekday when the university is in session by a staff of more than 250 students. During the summer months, a smaller staff produces a weekly version called The Summer...
's TheBuzz (January 2006).
In September 2006, Spectator staff launched The Eye, a weekly magazine featuring investigative pieces and commentary on Columbia and New York City. The name of The Eye relates both to the fact that one "spectates" with it and urban theorist Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs, was an American-Canadian writer and activist with primary interest in communities and urban planning and decay. She is best known for The Death and Life of Great American Cities , a powerful critique of the urban renewal policies of the 1950s in the United States...
' notion that "eyes on the street" help keep neighborhoods safe.
In March 2010, Spec launched a new blog, Spectrum, which is updated several times a day with breaking news, columns, and features.
Current Management
Editor in Chief: Samuel RothManaging Editor: Michele Cleary
Publisher: Aditya Mukerjee
Campus News Editor: Leah Greenbaum
City News Editor: Sarah Darville
Opinion Editors: Gabriella Porrino and Rebekah Mays
Arts & Entertainment Editor: Allison Malecha
Sports Editors: Mrinal Mohanka and Jim Pagels
Eye Editor in Chief: Amanda Cormier
Eye Managing Editor Ashton Cooper
Eye Art Director: Cindy Pan
Design Editors: Jeremy Bleeke and Ann Chou
Photo Editor: Phoebe Lytle
Head Copy Editor: Alex Collazzo
Online Content Editor: Jake Davidson
Spectrum Editor: Mikey Zhong
Finance Director: Spencer Duhaime
Sales Director: Mabel McLean
Alumni Director: Andrew Hitti
Staff Director: Hannah D'Apice
Recent Leadership
| Year | Board | Editor in Chief | Publisher | Managing Editor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 135th | Samuel Roth | Aditya Mukerjee | Michele Cleary |
| 2010 | 134th | Ben Cotton | Akhil Mehta | Thomas Rhiel |
| 2009 | 133rd | Melissa Repko | Julia Feldberg | Elizabeth Simins |
| 2008 | 132nd | Tom Faure | Manal Alam | Amanda Sebba |
| 2007 | 131st | John Davisson | John Mascari | Amanda Erickson |
| 2006 | 130th | Steve Moncada | Jacob Olson & John Mascari | Tim Shenk, succ. by Nick Klagge |
| 2005 | 129th | Megan Greenwell | Chase Behringer | Theo Orsher & Liz Fink |
| 2004 | 128th | Nick Summers | Lauren Appelbaum, succ. by Tanner Zucker | James Romoser |
| 2003 | 127th | Telis Demos | Amit Melwani | Juliana Castedo |
| 2002 | 126th | Alice Boone | Rob Bruce | Isolde Raftery |
| 2001 | 125th | Michael Mirer | Jeff Posnick | Nick Schifrin |
| 2000 | 124th | Dan Laidman | Jonathan Gordin | Miriam Haskell |
| 1999 | 123rd | Nathan Hale | ||
| 1998 | 122nd | Eli Sanders | ||
| 1997 | 121st | Kim Van Duzer | ||
| 1996 | 120th | Hans Chen | ||
| 1995 | 119th | Peter G. Freeman | Fredrik Stanton | Henry Tam, Jr. |
| 1994 | 118th | Ruth Halikman | Chris Conway | Michael Stanton |
| 1993 | 117th | Elizabeth Berke | ||
| 1992 | 116th | Kristina Nye | ||
| 1991 | 115th | Kirsten Danis | ||
| 1990 | 114th | Julie Zuckerman | ||
| 1989 | 113th | Josh Gillette | Jonathan Earle | |
| 1988 | 112th | Tracy Connor | ||
| 1987 | 111th | Sara Just | Alison Craiglow | |
| 1986 | 110th | Jacqueline Shea Murphy | ||
| 1985 | 109th | Anne Kornhauser | Thomas Fitzsimmons | William A. Teichner |
| 1984 | 108th | Aaron J. Freiwald | Thomas Fitzsimmons | Robert Zeiger |
| 1983 | 107th | Steven Waldman Steven Waldman Steven Waldman is Senior Advisor to the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, serving out of the Office of Strategic Planning. Previously, Waldman was the Editor-in-Chief, President, and co-founder of Beliefnet, a multi-faith spirituality website.... |
Notable Spec Alumni
- David Alpern, former senior writer and current contributing editor for Newsweek
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, sportscaster and head of ABC NewsABC NewsABC News is the news gathering and broadcasting division of American broadcast television network ABC, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company...
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reporter and co-founder of IvyGateIvyGateIvyGate is a blog and online news source covering news and gossip at Ivy League universities. The site is written and edited by students and recent graduates.- History :IvyGate was founded in 2006 by Columbia University alumni Chris Beam and Nick Summers... - Naftali BendavidNaftali BendavidNaftali Bendavid is the Congressional reporter for The Wall Street Journal. He was previously the deputy Washington bureau chief, White House correspondent and Justice Department correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, as well as a reporter for the Miami Herald and Legal Times...
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and author of The Thumpin': How Rahm EmanuelRahm EmanuelRahm Israel Emanuel is an American politician and the 55th and current Mayor of Chicago. He was formerly White House Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama...
and the Democrats Learned to Be Ruthless and Ended the Republican Revolution - Arnold BeichmanArnold BeichmanArnold Beichman Arnold Beichman Arnold Beichman (May 17, 1913, New York City – February 17, 2010, Pasadena, California was an author, scholar, and anti-communist polemicist. At the time of his death, he was a Hoover Institution research fellow and a columnist for The Washington Times...
, conservative commentator - Kate Boo, writer for The New YorkerThe New YorkerThe New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
and winner of the Pulitzer PrizePulitzer PrizeThe Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City... - Marcus BrauchliMarcus BrauchliMarcus W. Brauchli is executive editor of The Washington Post, overseeing the Post's print and digital news operations. He became editor on September 8, 2008, succeeding Leonard Downie, Jr.-Biography:...
, executive editor of the Washington Post and former managing editor of the Wall Street Journal - Robert Neil ButlerRobert Neil ButlerRobert Neil Butler was a physician, gerontologist, psychiatrist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, who was the first director of the National Institute on Aging...
, geriatrician - Ben Casselman, energy reporter for The Wall Street JournalThe Wall Street JournalThe Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....
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, co-founder of Random House - Ariana Cha, The Washington PostThe Washington PostThe Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...
- Elizabeth CohenElizabeth CohenElizabeth Cohen is an American television news journalist for CNN. She is the channel's senior medical correspondent and appears on American Morning.-Early life:...
, CNN reporter - Matthew CooperMatthew Cooper (American journalist)Matthew Cooper is a former reporter for Time who, along with New York Times reporter Judith Miller was held in contempt of court and threatened with imprisonment for refusing to testify before the Grand Jury regarding the Valerie Plame CIA leak investigation. He currently works as the managing...
, Portfolio columnist - Matthew ContinettiMatthew ContinettiMatthew Continetti is a conservative journalist and associate editor at The Weekly Standard.-Biography:He graduated from Columbia University in 2003. While in college he wrote for the Columbia Spectator and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute's magazine, CAMPUS...
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- Morris Dickstein, noted literary critic and professor at CUNY
- Joe Ferullo, Vice President of Programming and Development for CBS Paramount Domestic Television
- Max FrankelMax FrankelMax Frankel is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.Frankel came to the United States in 1940. He attended Columbia College and began part-time work for The New York Times in his sophomore year. He received his B.A. degree in 1952 and an M.A. in American government from Columbia in 1953.He joined...
, former executive editor of The New York TimesThe New York TimesThe New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization... - Ruth Franklin, senior literary editor at The New RepublicThe New RepublicThe magazine has also published two articles concerning income inequality, largely criticizing conservative economists for their attempts to deny the existence or negative effect increasing income inequality is having on the United States...
- Robert Friedman, editor-at-large at BloombergBloomberg L.P.Bloomberg L.P. is an American privately held financial software, media, and data company. Bloomberg makes up one third of the $16 billion global financial data market with estimated revenue of $6.9 billion. Bloomberg L.P...
- Julius GenachowskiJulius GenachowskiJulius Genachowski is an American lawyer and businessman. He became Federal Communications Commission Chairman on June 29, 2009.-Education:Genachowski grew up in Great Neck, New York. He attended yeshiva and studied in Israel...
, chairman of the Federal Communications CommissionFederal Communications CommissionThe Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the... - Robert GirouxRobert GirouxRobert Giroux was an influential American book editor and publisher. Starting his editing career with Harcourt, Brace & Co., he was hired away to work for Roger W. Straus, Jr. at Farrar & Straus in 1955, where he became a partner and, eventually, its chairman...
, publisher - Ralph J. GleasonRalph J. GleasonRalph Joseph Gleason was an influential American jazz and pop music critic. He contributed for many years to the San Francisco Chronicle, was a founding editor of Rolling Stone magazine, and cofounder of the Monterey Jazz Festival.-Biography:Gleason was born in New York City and attended Columbia...
, music critic - Alfred HarcourtAlfred HarcourtAlfred Harcourt was an American Publisher, Compiler and Founder of Harcourt, Brace & Howe in 1919....
, publisher - Reed HarrisReed HarrisReed Harris was an American writer, publisher, and U.S. government official.Harris was born on November 5, 1909, in New York City. He attended Staunton Military Academy and in 1932 graduated from Columbia College, where he edited the school newspaper, the Columbia Spectator...
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, poet, novelist and playwright - Dan Janison, reporter and columnist for New York Newsday
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, Beat Generation novelist - Bob KlapischBob KlapischRobert Salvador "Bob" Klapisch is a sportswriter for The Record and Fox Sports. He has previously written for The New York Post, ESPN, and New York Daily News, and has written five books about baseball...
, sportswriter for The Record - Vi Kyuin Wellington Koo, Chinese diplomat
- Adam B. Kushner, senior writer for Newsweek International
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magazine - Dienda Madiq, music promoter
- Joseph L. MankiewiczJoseph L. MankiewiczJoseph Leo Mankiewicz was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Mankiewicz had a long Hollywood career and is best known as the writer-director of All About Eve , which was nominated for 14 Academy Awards and won six. He was brother to screenwriter and drama critic Herman J...
, Academy award-winning movie director - Sam MarchianoSam MarchianoSusan Anne "Sam" Marchiano is an American television sportscaster who has been broadcasting since the mid 1990s. She is currently a reporter with MLB.com, the official website of Major League Baseball....
, sportscaster, currently for MLB.comMLB.comMLB.com is the official site of Major League Baseball and is overseen by Major League Baseball Advanced Media, L.P. . MLB.com is a source of baseball-related information, including baseball news, statistics, and sports columns... - Michael Mukasey, former US Attorney General
- Michael MustoMichael MustoMichael Musto is an American columnist for the The Village Voice, where he writes La Dolce Musto. Musto was born in Brooklyn to an Italian American family. He attended Columbia University graduating in 1976. During his studies, he was a theater critic for the Columbia Spectator...
, New York City journalist and media gadfly - Bernard W. Nussbaum, former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton
- Jim Ogle, longtime sportswriter for The Star-LedgerThe Star-LedgerThe Star-Ledger is the largest circulated newspaper in the U.S. state of New Jersey and is based in Newark. It is a sister paper to The Jersey Journal of Jersey City, The Times of Trenton and the Staten Island Advance, all of which are owned by Advance Publications.The Newark Star-Ledgers daily...
and chronicler of the New York YankeesNew York YankeesThe New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the The Bronx, New York. They compete in Major League Baseball in the American League's East Division... - Jed Perl, author and art critic of The New RepublicThe New RepublicThe magazine has also published two articles concerning income inequality, largely criticizing conservative economists for their attempts to deny the existence or negative effect increasing income inequality is having on the United States...
- Joshua PragerJoshua Prager (writer)Joshua Harris Prager is an American journalist and author. His book The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World, is about the Shot Heard 'Round the World, a famous 1951 baseball playoff game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York...
, author and previous special senior projects reporter for the Wall Street Journal - Ted RallTed RallTed Rall is an American columnist, syndicated editorial cartoonist, and author. His political cartoons often appear in a multi-panel comic-strip format and frequently blend comic-strip and editorial-cartoon conventions. The cartoons appear in approximately 100 newspapers around the United States...
, political cartoonist - Rob Saliterman, former spokesman for former President George W. BushGeorge W. BushGeorge Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
- Nicholas Schifrin, Pakistan correspondent for ABC NewsABC NewsABC News is the news gathering and broadcasting division of American broadcast television network ABC, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company...
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, New York Times reporter and author - Nick Summers, NewsweekNewsweekNewsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...
reporter and co-founder of IvyGateIvyGateIvyGate is a blog and online news source covering news and gossip at Ivy League universities. The site is written and edited by students and recent graduates.- History :IvyGate was founded in 2006 by Columbia University alumni Chris Beam and Nick Summers... - Lee C. Townsend, News Editor, CBS Evening News (Cronkite & Rather)
- Dick Wald, former president of NBCNBCThe National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
- Steven WaldmanSteven WaldmanSteven Waldman is Senior Advisor to the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, serving out of the Office of Strategic Planning. Previously, Waldman was the Editor-in-Chief, President, and co-founder of Beliefnet, a multi-faith spirituality website....
, journalist and founder of Beliefnet.com - Michael WaldmanMichael WaldmanMichael Waldman is executive director of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, a nonpartisan law and policy institute that focuses on fundamental issues of democracy and justice. The Center is one of the nation’s leading legal voices on election law, Constitutional law, government...
, speechwriter and advisor for President Bill ClintonBill ClintonWilliam Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation... - Sharon WaxmanSharon WaxmanSharon Waxman is an American journalist and blogger who has been a correspondent for The Washington Post and The New York Times, among others. She started a Hollywood and media business blog called The Wrap in early 2009 which competes directly with sites such as Deadline Hollywood.Waxman...
, New York Times reporter - James WechslerJames WechslerJames A. Wechsler was an American journalist.He was a columnist and Washington bureau editor of The New York Post, and a prominent voice of American liberalism for 40 years...
, chief editor of the New York PostNew York PostThe New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and is generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continuously as a daily, although – as is the case with most other papers – its publication has been periodically interrupted by labor actions... - Lis WiehlLis WiehlLis Wiehl is an American author and legal analyst for Fox News.She is an adjunct professor of law at New York Law School, and formerly was an associate professor at University of Washington Law School. She formerly offered legal commentary for National Public Radio program and on Bill O'Reilly's...
, legal commentator for Fox News - Herman WoukHerman WoukHerman Wouk is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author of novels including The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance.-Biography:...
, author - Paul ZimmermanPaul ZimmermanPaul Lionel Zimmerman is the son of Charles S. Zimmerman and Rose Zimmerman. Zimmerman, also known to readers as "Dr. Z", is an American football sportswriter who wrote for the weekly magazine Sports Illustrated, as well as the magazine's website, SI.com. He is sometimes confused with Paul D...
, columnist for Sports IllustratedSports IllustratedSports Illustrated is an American sports media company owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. Its self titled magazine has over 3.5 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men. It was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the...
(as "Dr. Z")
See also
- Columbia UniversityColumbia UniversityColumbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
- Morningside Heights
- List of New York City newspapers and magazines
External links
- Columbia Daily Spectator online
- The Eye weekly magazine
- Spectrum blog