Stuart Karle Prize for Outstanding Journalism

The Spectator Board of Trustees is creating a new journalism prize here at the Columbia Daily Spectator, named for Stuart Karle, Spectator’s 105th Editor-in-Chief and long-time board member, media lawyer extraordinaire and friend to journalists everywhere.

The Stuart Karle Prize for Outstanding Journalism, which will be conferred each year in the fall, will consist of a cash award of $2,000 to the journalist or journalists whose work exemplifies the best of the Spectator's journalism on Columbia University, its community or the surrounding community.  The prize will also confer an additional amount of $2,000 for the best continuing coverage of that issue over the course of the school year, to be awarded in the spring.

The winning works will be selected by a Prize Committee consisting of Gina Chua, Steve Adler, Peter Brown, and Spectator trustees Ben Cotton and Michael Ouimette.  Work must have been published by the Spectator in the fall semester of the current year to qualify; the additional prize for continued coverage must be used for work published in the Spectator later in that school year. Entries can be nominated by Spectator staff or board members. 

We aim to raise $100,000 to endow the prize, so please give generously.  Funds raised in excess of $100,000 will either be used to increase the prize award or go toward an endowment in Stuart’s name to support the operational expenses of the Spectator.

Spectator Publishing Company is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. All donations are tax deductible by the fullest extent of the law.