Founded in 1877, the Columbia Spectator delivers news daily to thousands of readers around Columbia University, Morningside Heights, West Harlem, and beyond. The newspaper is published five days a week during the academic year, and offers news, arts, commentary, sports coverage, and photos from around campus and New York City, in conjunction with our blog, Spectrum, and our weekly arts and features magazine, The Eye. We are the second-oldest college daily paper in the country and have been financially independent from the University since 1962. 

The organization is run by undergraduates from Barnard College, Columbia College, the School of General Studies, and the School of Engineering and Applied Science, with a staff totaling over 200 students. Spectator has opportunities for students wide range of interests, including reporting, writing, editing, photography, design, illustration, video production, and business. 

For general comments or questions about the Spectator, you can reach the editor in chief, managing editor, and publisher at info@columbiaspectator.com. For editorial questions or concerns, email editor@columbiaspectator.com.

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Those interested in joining the Columbia Daily Spectator must be current undergraduate students at Columbia University. Students are required to go through staff training at the beginning of their time at Spectator. Interested students are free to attend section-specific sessions for more than one section, and staff members are able to contribute to multiple sections simultaneously (with the exception of news and opinion). 

For spring 2013, Spectator held four open houses for students to find out more about the organization. While those have passed, if you're still interested in joining or have any general questions, please contact us at join@columbiaspectator.com. 

We are committed to fair and accurate reporting. If you notice an error, please inform us at editor@columbiaspectator.com.

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Op-eds: Spectator welcomes submissions from individuals affiliated with Columbia University or Morningside Heights. They should clearly state an opinion and may not have been previously published elsewhere. Pieces should be roughly 650 words, and may be edited before publication. Please note that upon publication, either online or in print, any op-ed piece becomes property of the Spectator Publishing Company. Email submissions to opinion@columbiaspectator.com.

Letters to the editor: A letter to the editor should be no longer than 350 words and must refer to an article from Spectator or The Eye, or a Spectrum post. Letters may be edited and shortened for space constraints. Please note that upon publication, either online or in print, any letter becomes property of the Spectator Publishing Company. Submit letters to opinion@columbiaspectator.com.

We feel it’s important to balance the impulse to remove all objectionable material against our commitment to free and open discussion and debate. We love comments and don’t love being comment police, but sometimes things get out of hand. When a comment is objectionable, we’ll remove it.

We reserve the right to delete any comment we find offensive, but a few things are particularly likely to get your comment deleted:

Libel. Broadly speaking, comments that contain untrue statements about living persons will be deleted.

Gratuitous profanity. We won’t delete comments simply because they contain profanities, but comments we deem more profane than substantial will be deleted.

Intolerance. Comments that attack a particular racial, ethnic, or religious community will be deleted, as will comments that disparage people of a certain gender or sexual orientation.

Self-promotion. Irrelevant comments designed to draw attention to a commenter’s own enterprise will be deleted.

We also reserve the right to put commenters with a history of publishing offensive remarks on “commenting probation.” Commenters “on probation” can still leave comments on columbiaspectator.com, but those comments must be approved by one of our editors before they appear on the site.

Spectator Publishing Company, Inc., is the parent company of the Columbia Daily Spectator. The company, managed by the publisher, editor in chief, and managing editor, is an independent nonprofit organization accountable to a board of trustees composed of Spectator alumni. The publishing company employs a full-time professional staff in graphics and advertising who provide quality service to our many advertisers.

The Spectator is one of the strongest ways to reach a highly coveted but elusive market: 18- to 22-year-old college students. We’re the only daily newspaper serving the more than 60,000 students, faculty, administrators, and staff of Columbia University. The Spectator is also the premier news source for local coverage of Morningside Heights, West Harlem, and the Upper West Side.

For rates, specifications, and information about advertising in The Eye or on our website, visit our advertising site here.

Our Archive site includes issues published from 1953 to 1985 and from 1991 to 1992. The text of articles, headlines, photo captions, and advertisements in those issues is completely searchable. We are working to make available the complete run of the publication from 1877 to the present.

The Archive currently contains 3,989 issues comprising 30,733 pages and 124,417 articles. Whenever possible pages were scanned from original paper copies and digitized using state of the art technology that provides full-page, searchable reproductions of articles, photographs, and advertisements. (For articles published in the last 15 years, please search the main Spectator website.)

The goals of the Archive are to provide a public resource for Columbia University history and to preserve the Spectator's past work. It is the result of a partnership between the Spectator and Columbia University Libraries, and funded jointly by the Libraries and through generous gifts from Spectator alumni and friends, especially members of the class of 1958.

Interested in helping us finish the job? Please support digitization by donating here.

The original printed copies of the Columbia Spectator are housed in the Columbia University Archives. Some of our first volumes are also searchable on Google Books.

If you are interested in republishing Spectator content, please contact our staff at usagerights@columbiaspectator.com.

Spectator's daily operations are run by a 23-member Managing Board.

Members:
Editor in chief: Sammy Roth
Managing editor: Finn Vigeland
Publisher: Alex Smyk
Campus news editor: Jeremy Budd
City news editor: Casey Tolan
Editorial page editors: Grace Bickers, Yasmin Gagne
Arts and Entertainment editor: Lesley Thulin
Sports editors: Alison Macke, Myles Simmons
Spectrum editor: Sara Garner
Photo editor: David Brann
Design editors: Regie Mauricio, Ryan Veling
Multimedia editor: Steven Lau
Head copy editor: Megan Kallstrom
Editor in chief, The Eye: Rikki Novetsky
Online editors: Doug Bienstock, Isaac White
Chief development officer: Rob Frech
Chief marketing officer: Alan Seltzer
Chief revenue officer: Wes Rodriguez
Staff director: Rebeka Cohan

Spectator Publishing Company, Inc., is the parent company of the Columbia Daily Spectator. The company, managed by the publisher, editor in chief, and managing editor, is an independent nonprofit organization accountable to a board of trustees composed of Spectator alumni.

Members:
Chase Behringer
Wendy Brandes, chair
Ernest Brod
Morris Dickstein
Duchesne Drew
Sara Just
Stuart Karle
Beth Knobel
Rick MacArthur
Nekesa Moody
Steven Waldman