Welcome
Our mission is simple: create publications and products that help you get the most out of your experience of Columbia, Morningside Heights, and West Harlem.
We have a 150-year tradition of doing this through hard-hitting journalism. Our best and most effective work comes through telling in-depth, well-reported stories that hold those in power accountable for the decisions they make.
Welcome
Our mission is simple: create publications and products that help you get the most out of your experience of Columbia, Morningside Heights, and West Harlem.
We have a 150-year tradition of doing this through hard-hitting journalism. Our best and most effective work comes through telling in-depth, well-reported stories that hold those in power accountable for the decisions they make.
Publications
Our daily news site, blog, and magazine are the best sources for news, opinions, sports, and arts coverage relevant to the Columbia community.
Products
In January 2013, Spectator expanded its scope by creating and delivering products, which provide information to Columbia students, faculty, and staff.
Publications
Publications
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The Columbia Daily Spectator was founded in 1877 as a literary magazine for the Columbia community. It is the second-oldest college daily newspaper in the country and has been independent from the University since 1962. In 2018, The Princeton Review ranked The Columbia Daily Spectator as the number one college newspaper in the nation.
In the spring of 2014, the Spectator decided to discontinue daily printing of the Columbia Daily Spectator and weekly printing of The Eye in order to shift financial resources and our journalists’ focus to the quality of our coverage and our digital presence. Beginning in the fall of 2014, the Columbia Daily Spectator prints one issue each Thursday, and both the Columbia Daily Spectator and The Eye thrive online.
In September 2014, the Washington Post began providing our publications with digital tools that enhance our journalism and expand our options for storytelling. This technology is what The Post uses every day for its own journalists, and it has already helped Spectator elevate the ways we can present stories online.
Columbia Daily Spectator
The Columbia Daily Spectator is the go-to source for all Columbia-related news. It is published online five days a week during the academic year, as well as in a weekly print edition, and offers news, data analysis, arts coverage, commentary, sports coverage, and photos from around campus and New York City. In 2018, The Princeton Review ranked Spectator as the best college newspaper in the United States.
The Eye
Founded in 2006, 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.
Products
Products
THE SHAFT
OUR Insiders' Guide to Housing
The Shaft equips users with all the information necessary to get the most out of your lottery number. Use the explore tab to see floor plans photos, and reviews of dorms, and the Whiteboard tab for real-time updates on what rooms have been taken.