Stop what you're doing and read this Columbia Daily Spectator / New York Magazine oral history of the Columbia protests. It's the best thing written on the topic — by far. columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/05/0…

People who distrust the media often have a reason to. I never have the hubris to think anyone who is not an elected or public official is supposed to talk to me. And if you approach your job this way, it’s unsurprising when people refuse you.

A statement from WKCR on these last two weeks of coverage.

There’s been a framing that all these protesters at Columbia were rich and entitled. But that’s why interviews of them are important ⁦Columbia Daily Spectator⁩ ⁦New York Magazine⁩

The Columbia Daily Spectator staff wrote and photographed an entire cover package for New York Magazine, I am so ridiculously proud of them!!! columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/05/0…

.New York Magazine's new cover package, in partnership with the Columbia Daily Spectator, is an intimate look at the events on the ground at Columbia University in the midst of antiwar protests. It is written and photographed entirely by staff at the Spectator. Read more: nymag.com/press/article/…

Having police violently break up protests and then calling them “violent protests” is an old trick that succeeds only when the press takes the bait which is what’s happening now

As someone who was there...why name it after that godforsaken place? Why not instead name it after one of the marines or corpsmen who died there, giving the last full measure of devotion?

The USS Helmand...how depressingly inauspicious

There is more to say, but for now let me tell you how proud I am of our Columbia Journalism students, whom I've watched report non-stop for days, sleep on floors, support one another & give their all to bearing witness under dire conditions: pulitzer.org/news/statement… The Pulitzer Prizes

Awkward situation at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing today

As the US envoy for Sudan testified on how little attention Sudan gets, senators cycled out due to conflicting schedules, leaving for long periods only 1 senator in the hearing room (and 20 empty seats)

I have gotten a few questions about how to donate to student journalism outlets without supporting Columbia itself. Columbia Daily Spectator is an independent nonprofit with zero financial ties to the university, if you want to kick them some money. specpublishing.com/donate-1

Here is katie honan confronting Deputy Commissioner of Public Information with evidence that the chain he wielded to imply that “outside agitators” barricaded Hamilton Hall is a common bike lock that Columbia University itself sold to their students

I think it’s also really easy in this industry to discount younger journalists for their lack of experience but I hope tonight really highlights just how mistaken that assumption is.

the student journalists at columbia and across the country should be so so proud of their work

Students at UChicago encampment gather in silence around a speaker for radio broadcast of WKCR 89.9, Columbia’s student station. Student press are producing incredible coverage as swarms of NYPD riot cops pepper spray, beat and arrest their classmates for protesting genocide

'Who is going to document this if they are not going to let us stay?' -- NYPD forcing WKCR reporters out of Hamilton Hall

.WKCR-FM NY reporters were audibly emotional on air as they reflect on news that the university has asked NYPD to stay on campus until May 17th.

Producers, videographers, photographers, reporters, editors — all of them our students. This work has already been published in over 20 different publications worldwide. Their reporting begins here: journalism.columbia.edu/students-cover….

📷: Duy Linh Tu

The Columbia student journalists are trapped in the … journalism school, unable to report.

'I'm not exaggerating here. I saw a sea of riot gear police. Not a speck of road.'

- what Columbia students are facing right now. Student journalists at WKCR are doing an incredible job reporting

Really wanna shout out the incredible work being done by the Columbia students reporting on WKCR-FM NY right now. You can listen to 89.9 on Apple Music