UNIVERSITY NEWS

University News strives to inform the Columbia community by highlighting student voices, spotlighting scholarship, and holding administrators and those in power accountable through rigorous and fair reporting.

CITY NEWS

City News serves the West Harlem and Morningside Heights communities with coverage of local leaders, politics, community members, events, and more. By centering residents’ voices, Spectator’s City News is the best place to find hyper localized reporting covering Manhattan CB9.

OPINION

Opinion serves as a platform to guide and reflect campus discourse. Opinion staffers recruit and edit op-eds submitted by members of the community that offer readers a wide range of perspectives.

ARTS & CULTURE

A&C highlights issues facing artists across both visual and performance disciplines. Through reviews, reports, and profiles, it provides a platform for the voices of student artists.

SPORTS

In addition to keeping readers up-to-date on the latest games, Sports holds Columbia Athletics accountable for the program it offers students and highlights the experiences of the hundreds of student-athletes that play for the Light Blue.

THE EYE

The Eye is Spectator’s long-form magazine. Through narrative writing and visuals, it seeks to investigate and humanize issues facing community members both on campus and in the Morningside Heights and West Harlem neighborhoods.

SPECTRUM

Spectrum staffers understand the pulse of the Columbia community and create content that resonates with the day-to-day struggles and joys of being a student at Columbia.

COPY

Copy ensures that every piece of content published by Spectator is as accessible and precise as possible with correct grammar and spelling. It is one of the final lines of accountability for Spectator, fact-checking every sentence published by the organization and ensuring that each story adheres to  Spectator’s Style Guide.

ESHA KARAM

Managing Editor, Columbia Daily Spectator | Vice President, Spectator Publishing Company

“Our hard-hitting, independent journalism is at the core of what we do at Spectator. Our journalists work tirelessly to inform and serve our audience. You’ll find a brilliant community of reporters here, who are all extraordinarily passionate about their work for the Columbia and West Harlem communities.”