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Esha Karam

7 months

Excited to announce that I will be the next Managing Editor and Vice President of @ColumbiaSpec ! I'm incredibly honored to work with the amazing 148th Managing Board and help guide our coverage over the next year!

Spectator announces 148th managing board - Columbia Spectator

Members of Spectator’s 148th managing board—led by Editor in Chief Isabella Ramírez, CC ’25, Managing Editor Esha Karam, CC ’25, and Publisher Katie Zhang, BC ’26—formally took their roles on...

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Esha Karam

@esha_karam

3 months

Our latest print edition, covering a momentous week in Columbia's history.

rachel iris yuan

@rachelyuan_

3 months

after a 13+ hour stint in the office, me & my staffers @ColumbiaSpec collaborated with our EIC @isabellasrmrz and our ME @esha_karam along with our HCEs to create ‘Columbia in Crisis’. bc campus access remains limited, read more below for a look inside this historic print paper

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Esha Karam

@esha_karam

2 months

@isabellasrmrz and I wrote a letter detailing the NYPD’s treatment of @ColumbiaSpec reporters—who were shoved, chased, and belittled while trying to do their job. Proud and honored to lead this amazing, hard-working group of student journalists.

Letter from the Editors: Columbia enabled the NYPD to suppress free press as it brutalized our peers

Editor’s note: This article deals with topics of police brutality.

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Esha Karam

@esha_karam

3 months

I joined Crooked Media's What a Day podcast to discuss my experience as a student journalist. Listen here!

Crooked Media

@CrookedMedia

3 months

Today, @esha_karam of the @ColumbiaSpec and Aarya Mukherjee of the @dailycal join us to explain how campus life has shifted since the Gaza solidarity encampments began. #WhatADay “Gaza Campus Protests Through the Eyes Of Student Journalists” out now:

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Esha Karam

@esha_karam

1 month

BREAKING: Pro-Palestinian protesters have repitched an encampment on Columbia's South Lawn. Follow @ColumbiaSpec for developing coverage.

Pro-Palestinian protesters repitch encampment on South Lawn during annual alumni reunion

Updated June 1 at 1:28 a.m.

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Esha Karam

@esha_karam

3 months

Follow @ColumbiaSpec ’s continued coverage of the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment’’ as it enters its fifth day. So proud of the team working around the clock to follow this developing story.

Columbia Daily Spectator

@ColumbiaSpec

3 months

As admitted students weekend continued, the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” entered its fifth day on the South Lawn. Two signs hung on the north end of the lawn read “Admitted Students Enroll in Revolution.”

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Esha Karam

@esha_karam

3 months

BREAKING: Columbia's President Minouche Shafik announces deadline to reach agreement in negotiations with student protesters.

Columbia Daily Spectator

@ColumbiaSpec

3 months

BREAKING: University President Minouche Shafik announced a midnight deadline to reach an agreement in ongoing talks with student organizers before consideration of “alternative options” for clearing “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.”

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Esha Karam

@esha_karam

3 months

An amazing look inside the first 33 hours of the "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" from @ColumbiaSpec 's audio team. Listen to Sophia Cordoba and Lara-Nour Walton's report on the hours leading up to the NYPD's arrests.

Columbia Daily Spectator

@ColumbiaSpec

3 months

On April 17, over 100 protesters set up an encampment to demand complete University divestment from Israel. After 33 hours, the NYPD was brought in and arrested them. Tune in to hear the sounds of the first “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.”

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Esha Karam

@esha_karam

3 months

@isabellasrmrz and I spoke to the Columbia Journalism Review about what it's like to lead @ColumbiaSpec at a moment when the nation's eyes are on our campus. Read here.

Spectator at the center

Last week, the congressional spotlight fell on Minouche Shafik, the president of Columbia University, who followed the acts of Claudine Gay (formerly Harvard’s president) and Elizabeth Magill...

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Esha Karam

@esha_karam

3 months

Follow along for live updates as the "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" enters its third day on South Lawn.

Columbia Daily Spectator

@ColumbiaSpec

3 months

The “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” entered its third day on South Lawn on Friday following the Thursday mass arrests of 108 protesters. The protesters have pledged to remain on the lawn until Columbia complies with their demand.

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Esha Karam

@esha_karam

3 months

Latest update on negotiations between the University and student protesters.

Columbia Daily Spectator

@ColumbiaSpec

3 months

The University is continuing dialogue with student representatives of the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” for “the next 48 hours” following “important progress” in negotiations, a University spokesperson wrote in a 3:03 a.m. Wednesday statement to Spectator.

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Esha Karam

@esha_karam

3 months

Follow along for live updates as University President Minouche Shafik testifies before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce today.

Columbia Daily Spectator

@ColumbiaSpec

3 months

LIVE UPDATES: University President Minouche Shafik is testifying before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce alongside fellow University leadership regarding Columbia’s response to antisemitism on campus.

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Esha Karam

@esha_karam

7 months

And there's no duo I'd rather hand off University News to than @SheaVance22 and Sarah Huddleston. Can't wait to see all the amazing things they accomplish!

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Esha Karam

@esha_karam

7 months

Especially excited to work with our next Editor-in-chief @isabellasrmrz and Publisher Katie Zhang to lead this organization!

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