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The Columbia Daily Spectator is the daily newspaper, written by Columbia University undergraduates, servicing the university community and the neighborhood of Morningside Heights. It is published in the Spectator Building at 112th and Broadway in New York, New York. Founded in 1877, it is the second-oldest continually operating college news daily in the nation, after The Harvard Crimson, and has been financially 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 counts a readership of over 10,000. Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ...
1877 (MDCCCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
Nickname: Big Apple, City that never Sleeps, Gotham Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Manhattan Queens Brooklyn Staten Island Settled 1613 Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area - City 1,214. ...
Official language(s) English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area Ranked 27th - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²) - Width 285 miles (455 km) - Length 330 miles (530 km) - % water 13. ...
Columbia University is a private university whose main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of the Borough of Manhattan in New York City. ...
Morningside Heights is a neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City and is bound by the Upper West Side, Morningside Park, Harlem, and Riverside Park (some now consider it part of the Upper West Side). ...
Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ...
1877 (MDCCCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
The Harvard Crimson, the breakfast daily of Harvard University, was founded in 1873. ...
Organization
Spectator's writing departments, each headed by an editor, include campus news, city news, sports, arts and entertainment, and opinion. The other non-writing departments, also headed by their own repective editors, include new media, production, copy, and business. The business department, which oversees the newspaper's advertising and finances, is headed by the publisher.
The Spec is currently run by the 130th 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 he feels he 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, the 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, aptly named 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). SpecBlogs, however, soon became defunct. Another blogging effort, launched in October 2006 to cover the 2006 midterm elections, proved more successful. The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education located in the Northeastern United States. ...
The Harvard Crimson, of Harvard University, is the United States oldest continuously published daily college newspaper. ...
The Daily Pennsylvanian is the independent daily student newspaper of the University of Pennsylvania. ...
Federal courts Supreme Court Chief Justice Associate Justices Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures State Courts Counties, Cities, and Towns Other countries • Politics Portal The 2006 United States midterm elections were held on Tuesday, November 7, 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. The magazine is appropriately subtitled "Columbia on the Street". Jane Jacobs Jane Jacobs, OC , O.Ont (May 4, 1916 – April 25, 2006) was an American-born Canadian writer and activist. ...
Spec Alumni - 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
- Kate Boo, writer for The New Yorker and winner of the Pulitzer Prize
- Max Frankel, executive editor of The New York Times
- Ralph J. Gleason, music critic
- Jack Kerouac, American novelist
- Tony Kushner, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright; author of Angels in America
- John R. MacArthur, publisher of Harper's magazine
- Dienda Madiq, music promoter
- Ted Rall, political cartoonist
- Dick Wald, former president of NBC
- James Wechsler, chief editor of the New York Post
- Paul Zimmerman, columnist for Sports Illustrated (as "Dr. Z")
In early March 1967, a Columbia University SDS activist named Bob Feldman reportedly discovered documents in the International Law Library detailing Columbias institutional affiliation with the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), a think-tank affiliated with the US Department of Defense. ...
Raymond Walter Apple, Jr. ...
The New York Times is a newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ...
This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ...
ABC News logo ABC News is a division of ABC television and radio networks (ABC), owned by The Walt Disney Company. ...
20/20 is an American television newsmagazine broadcast on ABC since June 6, 1978. ...
Nightline is a late-night hard news program broadcast by ABC in the United States, and has a franchised formula to other networks and stations elsewhere in the world. ...
Monday Night Football (MNF) is a live television broadcast of the National Football League. ...
The New Yorker is an American magazine that publishes reportage, criticism, essays, cartoons, poetry and fiction. ...
The gold medal awarded for Public Service in Journalism The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical compositions. ...
Max Frankel is a journalist. ...
The New York Times is a newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ...
Ralph J. Gleason (1917-1975) was an influential American jazz and pop music critic. ...
Jack Kerouac (pronounced ) (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist, writer, poet, artist, and part of the Beat Generation. ...
Tony Kushner (born July 16, 1956) is an award-winning American playwright most famous for his play Angels in America, for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. ...
The gold medal awarded for Public Service in Journalism The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical compositions. ...
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is a play in two parts by American playwright Tony Kushner. ...
This article is about American journalist John R. MacArthur. ...
An issue of Harpers Magazine from 1905 Another issue, from November 2004 Harpers Magazine (or simply Harpers) is a monthly general-interest magazine covering literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts from a progressive, moderate left perspective in a fashion often not found in the ordinary news...
Ted Rall, born 1963 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and raised near Dayton, Ohio, is a left wing columnist and editorial cartoonist. ...
It has been suggested that NBC Radio City Studios, NBC Studios be merged into this article or section. ...
James Wechsler (31 October 11 September 1915—September 1983) was an American journalist. ...
The New York Post is the 13th-oldest[citation needed] newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily. ...
Paul Zimmerman (b. ...
The first issue of Sports Illustrated, August 16, 1954, showing Milwaukee Braves star Eddie Matthews at bat in Milwaukee County Stadium. ...
See also Columbia University is a private university whose main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of the Borough of Manhattan in New York City. ...
Morningside Heights is a neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City and is bound by the Upper West Side, Morningside Park, Harlem, and Riverside Park (some now consider it part of the Upper West Side). ...
This is a list of New York City newspapers and magazines. ...
External links - Columbia Daily Spectator online
- The Eye weekly magazine
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