The Chicago Maroon
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The Chicago Maroon, the independent student newspaper of the University of Chicago since 1902, is a twice-weekly publication with a circulation of 7,500. During autumn, winter, and spring quarters of the academic year, the Maroon publishes every Tuesday and Friday. The paper consists of four sections: news, op-eds ("Viewpoints"), arts/entertainment ("Voices"), and sports. In the late summer, it publishes its annual orientation Issue for entering first-year students, including sections on the university and the city of Chicago.
Few of the Maroon's editors-in-chief have become professional journalists, including Daniel Hertzberg. Other former editors-in-chief are historian William H. McNeill, and author and blogger John Scalzi.
The Maroon's office is in the basement of Ida Noyes Hall, at 1212 East 59th Street.
[edit] Notable Alumni
The University of Chicago has produced a number of notable journalists, many of whom had nothing to do with Chicago Maroon staffers.
- Seymour Hersh (A.B. 1958) Pulitzer prize-winning investigative journalist and frequent writer for The New Yorker
- David Brooks (A.B. 1983) Op-Ed Columnist for the New York Times; senior editor of The Weekly Standard; regular commentator on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
- David S. Broder (A.B. 1947, A.M. 1951) Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, currently with The Washington Post.
- Daniel Hertzberg (A.B. 1968) Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and Managing Editor for The Wall Street Journal
- Ana Marie Cox (A.B. 1994) Editor of Wonkette weblog
- Thomas Frank (A.M. 1989, Ph.D. 1994) Editor-in-chief of The Baffler; author of The Conquest of Cool (1997) and What's the Matter with Kansas? (2004)
- Nathan Hare (A.M. 1957, Ph.D. 1962) Author, activist, and sociologist; founding publisher of The Black Scholar, later cited as, "the most important journal devoted to black issues since the Crisis," by the New York Times
- Carl H. Lavin (A.B. 1979) Deputy Managing Editor, news, The Philadelphia Inquirer
- Greg Palast (A.B. 1974, M.B.A. 1976) Progressive investigative journalist
- John Podhoretz (A.B. 1982) Conservative commentator for National Review, New York Post, The Weekly Standard, inter alia; son of Norman Podhoretz
- David Satter Moscow correspondent for the London Financial Times, Author of Age of Delirium: the Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union and Darkness at Dawn: the Rise of the Russian Criminal State
- Joshua Cooper Ramo (A.B. 1992) Foreign Editor of Time magazine, Author "No Visible Horizon," "Beijing Consensus", Managing Director Kissinger Associates
- Robert Silvers (A.B. 1947) Co-founding Editor of The New York Review of Books
- Brent Staples (A.M. 1976, Ph.D. 1982) Editorial writer for the New York Times (1990-present); winner of the Anisfield Wolff Book Award for his memoir Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White (1994)
- Ray Suarez (A.M. 1993) Senior Correspondent on PBS news program The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
- Kinsey Wilson (A.B. 1979) Executive Editor of USA Today
[edit] Recent Maroon Editors in Chief and Managing Editors
The Editor-in-Chief (EIC) and Managing Editor (ME) of the Maroon in recent history have been elected seventh week of winter quarter by the Maroon community (writers, editors, copy editors, designers, etc.).
- 2008-2009 Justin Sink / Sharat Ganapati
- 2007-2008 Kat Glass / Tim Hotze
- 2006-2007 Tara Kadioglu / Michael Rinaman
- 2005-2006 George Anesi / Stephanie Mielcarek
- 2004-2005 Garth Johnston / Laura Oppenheimer
- 2003-2004 Carolina Bolado / Garth Johnston
- 2002-2003 Pete Beatty / Whet Moser
- 2001-2002 Eugene Ford / Hannah Major-Monfried
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