- Columbia Daily Spectator
-
Columbia Daily Spectator Type Daily newspaper Format Broadsheet Owner Independent Founded 1877 Headquarters New York, New York Official website www.columbiaspectator.com 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.[1]
Contents
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.
Spectator's 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 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.
Current Management
Editor in Chief: Samuel Roth
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'ApiceRecent 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 Notable Spec Alumni
- David Alpern, former senior writer and current contributing editor for Newsweek
- Lou Antonelli, Texas-based science fiction and fantasy author
- R.W. Apple, senior staff writer for The New York Times, serving as a foreign correspondent for over 30 years
- Roone Arledge, sportscaster and head of ABC News; created 20/20 and Nightline in addition to Monday Night Football
- Chris Beam, Slate reporter and co-founder of IvyGate
- Naftali Bendavid political reporter for The Wall Street Journal and author of The Thumpin': How Rahm Emanuel and the Democrats Learned to Be Ruthless and Ended the Republican Revolution
- Arnold Beichman, conservative commentator
- Kate Boo, writer for The New Yorker and winner of the Pulitzer Prize
- Marcus Brauchli, executive editor of the Washington Post and former managing editor of the Wall Street Journal
- Robert Neil Butler, geriatrician
- Ben Casselman, energy reporter for The Wall Street Journal, currently covering the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
- Bennett Cerf, co-founder of Random House
- Ariana Cha, The Washington Post
- Elizabeth Cohen, CNN reporter
- Matthew Cooper, Portfolio columnist
- Matthew Continetti, writer at The Weekly Standard
- I.A.L. Diamond, screenwriter
- Morris Dickstein, noted literary critic and professor at CUNY
- Joe Ferullo, Vice President of Programming and Development for CBS Paramount Domestic Television
- Max Frankel, former executive editor of The New York Times
- Ruth Franklin, senior literary editor at The New Republic
- Robert Friedman, editor-at-large at Bloomberg
- Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
- Robert Giroux, publisher
- Ralph J. Gleason, music critic
- Alfred Harcourt, publisher
- Reed Harris, expelled for 20 days, author of King Football, journalist, civil servant, target of McCarthyism
- Langston Hughes, poet, novelist and playwright
- Dan Janison, reporter and columnist for New York Newsday
- Jack Kerouac, Beat Generation novelist
- Bob Klapisch, sportswriter for The Record
- Vi Kyuin Wellington Koo, Chinese diplomat
- Adam B. Kushner, senior writer for Newsweek International
- Tony Kushner, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright; author of Angels in America
- John R. MacArthur, publisher of Harper's magazine
- Dienda Madiq, music promoter
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Academy award-winning movie director
- Sam Marchiano, sportscaster, currently for MLB.com
- Michael Mukasey, former US Attorney General
- Michael Musto, 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-Ledger and chronicler of the New York Yankees
- Jed Perl, author and art critic of The New Republic
- Joshua Prager, author and previous special senior projects reporter for the Wall Street Journal
- Ted Rall, political cartoonist
- Rob Saliterman, former spokesman for former President George W. Bush
- Nicholas Schifrin, Pakistan correspondent for ABC News
- Warren St. John, New York Times reporter and author
- Nick Summers, Newsweek reporter and co-founder of IvyGate
- Lee C. Townsend, News Editor, CBS Evening News (Cronkite & Rather)
- Dick Wald, former president of NBC
- Steven Waldman, journalist and founder of Beliefnet.com
- Michael Waldman, speechwriter and advisor for President Bill Clinton
- Sharon Waxman, New York Times reporter
- James Wechsler, chief editor of the New York Post
- Lis Wiehl, legal commentator for Fox News
- Herman Wouk, author
- Paul Zimmerman, columnist for Sports Illustrated (as "Dr. Z")
See also
- Columbia University
- Morningside Heights
- List of New York City newspapers and magazines
References
External links
- Columbia Daily Spectator online
- The Eye weekly magazine
- Spectrum blog
Daily student newspapers of the Ivy League The Brown Daily Herald (Brown) • Columbia Daily Spectator (Columbia) • The Cornell Daily Sun (Cornell) • The Dartmouth (Dartmouth) • The Harvard Crimson (Harvard) • The Daily Pennsylvanian (Penn) • The Daily Princetonian (Princeton) • Yale Daily News (Yale)
Categories:- Columbia University publications
- Student newspapers published in New York
- College newspapers
- Publications established in 1877
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
