The Brown Daily Herald gathered downcity Friday night at Trinity Brewhouse to name its 116th editorial board. A spectacular evening of chicken wings, flasks and Long Island iced teas celebrated incoming and outgoing board members.
At the banquet, outgoing editors Jonathan Ellis '06, Christopher Hatfield '06, Sara Perkins '06, Zachary Barter '06, Danielle Cerny '06 and Lisa Mandle '06.5 bade farewell to their staff and announced next year's top editors.
Robbie Corey-Boulet '07 will take over as editor-in-chief, joined by Justin Elliott '07 and Ben Miller '07 as executive editors and Stephanie Clark '07 and Katie Lamm '07 as senior editors.
Corey-Boulet dramatically expanded The Herald's coverage of College Hill and city and state politics this year as Metro editor. An urban studies and economics concentrator from University Place, Wash., Corey-Boulet has a reputation - even among local politicians - for thorough reporting and editing and has built impressive stables of both sources and writers. He has also provided insightful analysis of major University events this year, including the recent Campaign for Academic Enrichment kickoff. Corey-Boulet will serve as president of The Brown Daily Herald, Inc.
Elliott, famous for camping out in the Herald newsroom at all hours and refusing to use a cell phone, covered news from other campuses as well as higher education trends as Campus Watch editor this year. He also has a nose for in-depth stories, covering wrestling team and labor disputes this year and writing an ongoing series on security cameras on campus and around the state. Known for his cap and on-again, off-again beard, Elliott hails from Bridgewater, Mass., and will serve as vice president of The Herald.
Miller, usually seen handling the everyday chaos in The Herald's Sports section, impressed with his dogged work ethic and perfectionism. The Baltimore, native has covered women's basketball, football and lacrosse as a beat writer, and written about almost every sport as a Herald editor as well as a writer for the Brown Alumni Magazine. Almost certainly the tallest Herald editor ever at 6'6", Miller will continue to improve upon the efforts of his predecessors.
As current copy desk chief and a copy editor under three editorial boards, New York native Lamm likely has more editing experience than any other member of 116. A source of late-night vim and vigor in the office, Lamm has turned the copy desk into the most highly selective section of The Herald. She compares her management style to a nectarine - sweet like a peach, but without all the fuzz.
Clark, a history concentrator from Mill Valley, Calif., will return from a semester living it up in Spain. She helped launch The Herald's Focus section last spring as its co-editor. Clark has been among The Herald's busiest writers since spring of her first year. She interviewed alum Jeffrey Eugenides '83 while he was in Germany in the middle of the night here in Providence for one Focus article, and named L'Elizabeth Rhode Island's top date restaurant in last fall's TopRI.
The business staff welcomed Ryan Shewcraft '07, a mathematics-physics and philosophy concentrator from Pittsfield, Mass., as incoming general manager, while Lisa Poon '07, David Ranken '06.5 and Mitch Schwartz '07 will serve as executive managers. Shewcraft will be treasurer of The Herald, and Ranken will be secretary.
Jonathan Sidhu '08 will bring a new perspective to the Arts and Culture section as editor next semester. Sidhu, a Los Angeles native, most recently provided insightful reporting on Sex Power God and, according to the Facebook, hooked up with Fox News producer Jesse Watters at the event.
He is joining fellow Angelino Jane Tanimura '07, who has served as A&C editor with Alexandra Barsk '07 this semester. Tanimura, an English concentrator, has written extensively on the arts at Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design. Tanimura's experience with the section and Sidhu's contributions throughout The Herald's pages should take the section in an exciting new direction.
Eric Beck '08, who as a senior staff writer mastered the ins and outs of University Hall, will oversee The Herald's Campus News section as news editor. Beck, who hails from Tampa, Fla., and will continue covering faculty meetings, recently set the record straight after Bill O'Reilly attacked Sex Power God on his radio show.
Stu Woo '08 has been both a dogged reporter and a readers' darling with his rambling Drunken Stu-por sports column. Woo, a San Francisco native and a veteran of the University's journalism courses, will move in as Campus Watch editor.
Mary-Catherine Lader '08, who hails from London, will apply her unparalleled enthusiasm and innovative ideas as editor of a rotating Features desk. Lader reported on everything from Undergraduate Council of Students' infighting to Brown's role in upcoming episodes of "The OC" while serving as a senior staff writer.
Ben Leubsdorf '08 and Anne Wootton '08 will combine their impressive reporting skills as editors of an expanded Metro section. Leubsdorf, of Washington, D.C., provided extensive coverage of Jennifer Lawless' congressional campaign this semester, while Wootton, a Chicago native, covered an array of Metro stories in addition to lectures by John Kerry P'97 and James Carville.
Taking over the reins of the Sports section will be Stephen Colelli '08 and Hatfield. Colelli, a cheeky native of Pittsburgh, is known for his futile attempts to inject unknown slang into articles, and is one of the section's most dedicated writers. The duo will be supported by returning Assistant Sports Editor Jilane Rodgers '06 and new assistant sports editors Justin Goldman '07 and Charlie Vallely '06.
Patrick Harrison '08 and Nicholas Swisher '08 will take over the Opinions section next semester. Both experienced columnists, the pair looks to expand the section's content as they recruit new writers.
Post-'s current features editor, Sonia Saraiya '08, will take the helm as editor in chief of the weekly magazine. A Herald staff writer and copy editor, Saraiya, of Tampa, Fla., holds the most titles of anyone else at The Herald thanks mostly to her refusal to leave the office.
Saraiya will be joined by upstart features editors Ben Bernstein '09, of St. Louis, and Matt Prewitt '08 of Moraga, Calif. Jesse Adams '06, another St. Louis-area transplant, will stay on as music editor, aided by the fresh eyes of co-editor Katherine Chan '09, a California girl with a penchant for baking. Hillary Dixler '08 of Florham Park, N.J., will join longtime theater editor Abigail Newman '06, a Chicago native who has been on the post- masthead longer than anyone else. Paul Levande '08 and Colorado native Constantine Haghighi '08 will maintain their benevolent dictatorship of the film section for another semester.
Allison Kwong '08 will resume her capable leadership as The Herald's design editor, ensuring that it will continue its daily operations. Kwong, of Los Altos Hills, Calif., has used her senior status to lobby for keys to the office and a new whiteboard.
Mark Brinker RISD '07, an illustration major from Oak Park, Ill., will take the helm of the comics page as graphics editor. Brinker's "Chocolate Covered Cotton" strip - the title is a reference to Joseph Heller's "Catch-22" - first appeared in The Herald in Fall 2004. Joe Nagle '06 will stay on as a graphics editor, continuing his expansion of the editorial cartoons.
Ashley Hess '08 and Kori Schulman '08 will undoubtedly brighten up the office as they team up as sports photo editors. Jean-Yves Chainon '06 and Jacob Melrose '09, both new photo staffers this semester, look to step up as news photo editors in the coming year.
Heading up the copy desk will be Taryn Martinez '08 and returning Copy Desk Chief Lela Spielberg '07. Martinez currently contributes to The Herald as both a copy editor and a staff writer, and she recently compiled an enthralling Focus feature "Brown by the numbers," which included how much Health Services spends on condoms and other latex products each year. Spielberg, a history and community health concentrator from Westmont, N.J., spent the fall semester in Stockholm, Sweden.
The Herald is proud to have welcomed a large and talented crew of new staff writers in the past year, including Anna Abramson '07, Justin Amoah '07, Stephanie Bernhard '09, Alissa Cerny '09, Ross Frazier '09, Phillip Gara '08, Hannah Miller '08, Chloe Lutts '08, Ari Rockland-Miller '08, Chelsea Rudman '08, Caroline Silverman '09, Robin Steele '08, Kim Stickels '08, Nicole Summers '08 and Laura Supkoff '08.
New sports staff writers include Erin Fauenhofer '09, Madeleine Marecki '07, George Mesthos '09, Matt Nicholson '07, Brian Schmidt '09 and Tom Trudeau '09.
