On Saturday, The Daily Princetonian staff elected Miriam Waldvogel ’26 as the 149th editor-in-chief following six hours of deliberation in Bowen Hall.
Waldvogel is a mathematics major from Stockton, Calif., and currently serves as an associate News editor and the investigations editor, in addition to being on the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) Board. She contributed significantly to three weeks of 24-hour coverage during last spring’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment, and often wrote pieces about campus activism.
In an interview with the ‘Prince,’ Waldvogel shared how 24-hour coverage during the encampment shaped her perception of the ‘Prince.’
“[The encampment] was a really hard but important lesson on how much the ‘Prince’ mattered on so many levels,” she said. This experience led her to reevaluate her prior decision not to run for editor-in-chief.
“I realized that I had some ideas about the ways that this organization could go,” said Waldvogel. “I really do love reading the ‘Prince’ every single day and I felt like I had the depth of knowledge to be able to sit down and do a decent job with this role.”
She also described her focus for the 149th board, which will build on “the good work that the current leadership of the ‘Prince’ has already done.”
“I hope to prioritize writers being able to explore what they are curious about across sections,” said Waldvogel. “More broadly, this means investing more in the beat system.”
The beat system — where writers develop a specialization over a certain coverage area — was reimplemented paper-wide by current editor-in-chief Eden Teshome ’25.
“Miriam has great ideas. A lot of them are based on continuing what we’ve implemented this year. What she ran on was, ‘We’ve got the basics down and are making sure that we fine-tune them after the first year,’” Teshome said in an interview.
In efforts to diversify coverage, Waldvogel plans to increase coverage of academic research at the University. “Academic research is a huge function of what a place like Princeton does,” she said.
Waldvogel also plans to focus on community outreach.
“I am really excited to work on revamping our DEIB committee to be a primarily staff writer driven body, a place that will look at our coverage on the regular and analyze if we’re in touch with the campus pulse and which communities or voices we implement,” she explained.
“Miriam has always been one of our most dedicated, talented reporters,” Teshome said. “She’s always been able to be someone who has such a depth of knowledge on what’s going on on campus.”
“I just know her abilities will translate so well,” she continued. “I’m not at all scared to leave it behind in her hands.”
Bridget O’Neill ’26 and Bella Dail ’26, the two other candidates in the election, shared their confidence in Waldvogel.
“The ‘Prince’ is in incredible hands,” Dail, head editor of The Prospect, reflected. “She has thought incredibly deeply about her vision for the ‘Prince’, and I’m so excited to see what she does.”
“During unprecedented times in our coverage she has shown she is a great leader,” O’Neill, co-head News editor, said. “[She] has a great vision for the paper.”
This year’s election was contested, a change from Teshome’s unopposed run in December 2023.
Teshome described satisfaction in the return to a contested election. “It’s important to the democracy of the newspaper,” she noted.
Waldvogel expressed her gratitude for the other candidates and the friendship shared among them.
“It certainly made the process of running, which is honestly rather stressful, much easier to have people around [that] I could rely on.”
Waldvogel will assume her role as editor-in-chief on Jan. 1.
Cynthia Torres is a News contributor from New Bedford, Mass.
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