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.

A few of the Maroon's editors-in-chief have become professional journalists, including Daniel Hertzberg. Other former editors-in-chief include historian William H. McNeill.

Over its history the Maroon served as publisher of other independent papers at the University of Chicago, including the Grey City Journal, a weekly journal of arts and culture which featured some of the first cultural criticism by Thomas Frank, and the Chicago Literary Review, a quarterly showcase for poetry and short fiction.

The Maroon's office is in the basement of Ida Noyes Hall, at 1212 East 59th Street.

Notable alumni

The University of Chicago has produced a number of notable journalists and writers, many of whom were Chicago Maroon staffers.

• David Auburn (A.B. 1991) Pulitzer prize and Tony award-winning playwright of Proof
• 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)
• Seymour Hersh (A.B. 1958) Pulitzer prize-winning investigative journalist and frequent writer for The New Yorker
• 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
• Erin McKean (A.B. 1993) Lexicographer and Principal Editor of The New Oxford American Dictionary, second edition^[1].
• 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
• John Scalzi (A.B. 1991) Hugo award-winning writer, blogger and novelist (Old Man's War)
• Nate Silver (A.B. 2000) Editor of webblog FiveThirtyEight.com
• Robert B. 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

References

External links

• The Chicago Maroon web site