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Spectator honors Ernie Brod with inaugural Spectator Lifetime Achievement award at 36th Annual Awards Dinner

By Emily Forgash  |  February 14, 2024 at 4:10 AM

By Gabriella Gregor Splaver / Senior Staff Photographer
Ernie Brod, CC ’58, Law ’61, accepts his Spectator Lifetime Achievement Award.



Photo by Gabriella Gregor Splaver / Senior Staff Photographer
Brod with his longtime friends.

Photo by Gabriella Gregor Splaver / Senior Staff Photographer
Shafik with 148th Editor in Chief Isabella Ramírez, CC ’25, 148th Publisher Katie Zhang, BC ’26, and 148th Managing Editor Esha Karam, CC ’25.



















From left to right, Moment, Gregor-Splaver, Vance, McKee, and Yuan, holding their Columbia Daily Spectator Memorial Awards.





Photo by Gabriella Gregor Splaver / Senior Staff Photographer
Brod discussed his time on Spectator’s board of trustees during his acceptance speech for the inaugural Spectator Lifetime Achievement Award.



Photo by Gabriella Gregor Splaver / Senior Staff Photographer
Dreier discussed her experience talking to hundreds of migrant children for her award-winning investigative series about child labor in the United States.