Columbia Daily Spectator

Columbia Daily Spectator
Type Weekly newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Spectator Publishing Company, Inc.
Publisher Rachit Mohan
Editor-in-chief Caroline Chiu
Managing editors Ben Libman
Founded 1877
Headquarters New York, New York
Circulation 8,000[1]
Website www.columbiaspectator.com

Columbia Daily Spectator is the weekly 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. During the academic term, it is published online Monday through Friday and printed every Thursday. In addition to serving as a campus newspaper, Spec, as it is commonly known, also reports the latest news of the surrounding Morningside Heights community. The paper is delivered each week to over 150 locations throughout the Morningside Heights neighborhood.

Organization

Spectator is published by Spectator Publishing Company Inc, an independent 501(c)(3) corporation.[2] Spectator Publishing Company was formed in 1962[3] and has been independent of Columbia University since then. The president of the Spectator Publishing Company also serves as the editor in chief 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 140th 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. 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 editing tests made up by their department editor that test them on fundamentals. Finally, they go through the turkeyshoots, an interview in which the current managing board grills the applicant on why the applicant feels that they would be a good fit for the position. The results of the 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. It folded within the year.

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: Caroline Chiu
Managing Editor: Ben Libman
Publisher: Rachit Mohan
Deputy Publisher: Anurak Saelaow
Assistant Managing Editor, Visuals: Jenna Beers
News Editors: Catie Edmondson, J. Clara Chan
Editorial Page Editor: Paulina Mangubat
Sports Editor: Daniel Radov
Head Copy Editor: Miranda Kantor
Photo Editor: Ethan Wu
Design Editors: Anna Alonso
Managing Editor, The Eye: Youjin Jenny Jang
Spectrum Editor: Sophia Hotung
Director of Events: Pooja M. Desai
Director of Revenue: Michael Tai
Director of Data Science: Tony Li
Staff Director: Jenna Beers
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Recent leadership

Year Board Editor in Chief Publisher Managing Editor
2016 140th Caroline Chiu Rachit Mohan Ben Libman
2015 139th Michael Ouimette Daniel Friedman Samantha Cooney
2014 138th Abby Abrams Michael Ouimette Steven Lau
2013 137th Sammy Roth Alex Smyk Finn Vigeland
2012 136th Sarah Darville Alex Smyk Maggie Alden
2011 135th Samuel Roth Aditya Mukerjee Michele Cleary
2010 134th Ben Cotton Akhil Mehta Thomas Rhiel
2009 133rd Melissa Repko Julia Feldberg Daria Knight-Winslow
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 Matthew Greer Demetra Kasimis
1998 122nd Eli Sanders David S. Karp Leila Nesson
1997 121st Kim Van Duzer Julie Yufe Sandra P. Angulo
1996 120th Hans Chen Graham Goodkin Lauren Goodman
1995 119th Peter G. Freeman Fredrik Stanton Henry Tam, Jr.
1994 118th Ruth Halikman Chris Conway Michael Stanton
1993 117th Elizabeth Berke Katherine Huibonhoa Leyla Kokmen
1992 116th Kristina Nye Ram Rao Jessica Shaw
1991 115th Kirsten Danis Andrew Rothschild Catherine Thorpe
1990 114th Julie Zuckerman Anna Compaglia Robert Hardt, Jr.
1989 113th Josh Gillette Erika Henik Jonathan Earle
1988 112th Tracy Connor Roger Rubin Asha Badranith
1987 111th Sara Just Alison Craiglow John Oswald
1986 110th Jacqueline Shea Murphy Toshihiko Saito Elizabeth Schwartz
1985 109th Anne Kornhauser Thomas Fitzsimmons William Teichner
1984 108th Aaron J. Freiwald Thomas Fitzsimmons Robert Zeiger
1983 107th Steven Waldman Peter Baltay Kate Schaefer
1982 106th John Zimmerman Robert Hughes Todd Bressi
1981 105th Stuart Karle Beverly Weintraub ("Business Manager") Pete Brown
1980 104th Jon Elsen Bonnie Spiro ("Business Manager") Chris Wellisz
1979 103rd Jim Schachter Carol Futernick ("Business Manager") David Rosenberg
1978 102nd Joe Ferullo Sheldon Nussbaum ("Business Manager") Mitch Rollnick
1977 101st Richard Hart David Margules ("Publisher"), Susan Wagner ("Business Manager") (none)
1976 100th Gregg Bloche, succ. by Jonathan Steinberg Jon Lukomnik ("Publisher"), Michelle Seltzer ("Business Manager") Jonathan Steinberg, succ. by David Margules
1975 99th David Raab Brian Dowd ("Business Manager") Ted Green
1974 98th Eric Rieder Jay Lisnow ("Business Manager") David Smith
1973 97th Gail Robinson Dan Dolgin ("Business Manager") Richard Briffault
1972 96th John Brecher L. Stanton Towne, succ. by Geoffrey Colvin ("Business Manager") Maureen McGuirl
1971 95th Jon Groner Jonathan Kandel ("Business Manager") Lillian Ehrlich
1970 94th Martin Flumenbaum Mitchell Gerber, succ. by Robert J. Hunt ("Business Manager") Juris Kaza
1969 93rd Paul Starr Lawrence D. Levin ("Business Manager") Robert Hardman
1968 92nd Robert Friedman Nicholas Garaufis ("Business Manager") Charles L. Skoro
1967 91st Christopher Friedrichs Leon Wyszewianski ("Business Manager") David Heim
1966 90th Alan S. Lake Stuart A. Schlang ("Business Manager") Mark Minton
1965 89th Michael Drosnin Jay S. Goldsamt ("Business Manager") Daniel Epstein
1964 88th Donald H. Shapiro L. Michael Krieger ("Business Manager") Stanford N. Sesser
1963 87th Gary A. Schonwald Burt H. Liebman ("Business Manager") Norman A. Olch
1962 86th Dov M. Grunschlag Jon M. Eckel ("Business Manager") Doron Gopstein
1961 85th Allen Young Paul A. Gitman ("Business Manager") Eric Levine
1960 84th Martin B. Margulies Andrew S. Levine ("Business Manager") John D. Hack succ. by Arnold Abrams
1959 83rd William Robert Bishin Carl A. Steinbaum ("Business Manager") Nathan Gross
1958 82nd Robert M. Burd Barry C. Cooper ("Business Manager") Allan D. Gochman
1957 81st Bernard Nussbaum Kenneth J. Stern ("Business Manager") Howard J. Orlin
1956 80th H. Douglas Eldridge George Leibowitz ("Business Manager") Bruce R. Buckley
1955 79th Jonas Schultz Grover H. Wald ("Business Manager") Robert R. Siroty
1954 78th Lee Townsend Sheldon M. Wolf ("Business Manager") Gerald M. Pomper
1953 77th Charles E. Selinske Lester Friedman ("Business Manager") Judah L. Berger
1952 76th Jerry G. Landauer H. Wallace Kava ("Business Manager") Donald L. Hymes & Rolon W. Reed
1951 75th Max Frankel Frank Walwer ("Business Manager") Lawrence K. Grossman & Charles N. Jacobs
1950 74th David Wise James A. Williams ("Business Manager") Peter H. Schiff
1949 73rd Robert C. Frederiksen Edward Wolfe ("Business Manager") Gabriel Favoino (spring semester only; vacant in fall)
1948 72nd Robert Neil Butler Vincent A. Carrozza ("Business Manager") Gene R. Haves

Notable Spec alumni

See also

References

  1. ↑ Page 20
  2. ↑ "Spectator Publishing Company Inc overview from Guidestar.org". Guidestar.org. Retrieved 4 April 2014.
  3. ↑ "Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax; 2012 IRS Form 990 of Spectator Publishing Co Inc" (PDF). Retrieved 4 April 2014.
  4. ↑ http://columbiaspectator.com/about
  5. ↑ Hevesi, Dennis (2012-02-09). "Damien Bona Dies at 56; Creator of Guide for Oscar Buffs". New York Times. Retrieved 2012-02-25.
  6. ↑ http://www.washingtonpost.com/people/adam-b-kushner

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