Conor Skelding
Conor Skelding CC '14 was the editor in chief of The Blue and White, a COOP leader, Potluck House resident, Bored at Butler contributor, and wrote for IvyGate, The Columbia Lion and Bwog. His regular haunts included St. Paul's Chapel and the sixth floor of John Jay.
After a brief stint as a walk-on rower, he set his mind to more worthy pursuits such as serving as one of the first WikiCU administrators under the nom de plume cds2148 responsible for approving new accounts and rolling back overly self-aggrandizing edits by student leaders. He was generally known as a walking encyclopedia of Columbia news and institutional memory, establishing the first Wikithon in 2013 to preserve it. Some of his feats include the 2013 Admissions Essay Leak, the 2014 Sachems leak, and unmasking both The Dark Hand and the Venmo drug dealer under active NYPD investigation.
Highly conscious of personal and cyber safety, Skelding liked neither Senior Night, nor Senior Scramble, nor Brooklyn. Ironically, he later moved to Brooklyn after graduating and was a member of the Park Slope Food Coop in good standing.
Post-Columbia, unlike most campus reporters Skelding would go on to an illustrious career in journalism, including stints at POLITICO (covering the De Blasio administration in "Room 9"), Reorg Research, and the New York Post. He died of illness at the age of 31 in 2023, survived by his wife Lizzy CC '16.
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| Preceded by Brian Wagner |
Editor in Chief of The Blue and White 2013 |
Succeeded by Torsten Odland |
