Conor Skelding

Conor Skelding

Conor Skelding CC '14 was the editor in chief of The Blue and White and wrote for IvyGate, The Columbia Lion and Bwog. After a brief stint as a walk-on rower, he set his mind to more worthy pursuits such as serving as a former WikiCU administrator 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 background. The first Wikithon in 2013 was his brainchild. Highly conscious of personal and cyber safety, Skelding liked neither Senior Night, 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.

Preceded by Brian Wagner

Editor in Chief of The Blue and White  2013

Succeeded by Torsten Odland