Student journalists from Columbia University's newspaper have spent the last few weeks diligently covering the ongoing pro-Palestinian protests on the university's campus, with their reporting now culminating in a collaborative feature with New York Magazine.

Isabella Ramirez, editor in chief of Columbia’s The Daily Spectator, discussed the partnership on “Mornings On 1” Monday, saying the student journalists had a unique perspective to bring to the table from the beginning.

“We had many reporters on the ground, inside the encampment, in terms of keeping along, reporting late at night often to see what was going on, and as well as, we knew [about protests] prior. And I think that is something that is really interesting as well in this entire storyline is a lot of this, as it was developing, we had tips,” said Ramirez.

Nick Summers, feature editor at New York Magazine, echoed that sentiment, appearing alongside Ramirez, saying, “It was clear to us that they were doing some of the best work on what was happening at Columbia.”

The feature, published Friday in the magazine, provided an inside look at the encampments and the crackdowns that eventually escalated citywide to a number of other universities.

Ramirez said it was originally supposed to focus on the students of the protests, but transformed when demonstrators breached Columbia’s Hamilton Hall, prompting the university’s president to call in the NYPD to disband protesters.

“The Hamilton Hall escalation and then follow up police sweep happens at the tail end of us doing this story, of us doing the cover story, and it illuminates, and also kind of, in some senses, drastically changes what we wanted to try to tackle. And that's when we really were able to solidify this idea of an oral history,” said Ramirez.

Following the police sweep, Ramirez said the police presence remains heavy on campus, with the school forbidding even students from off-campus housing to enter through the gates. Meanwhile, questions still remain over the school’s leadership.

“One ongoing question is what happens to the university president? Can she hang on to her job? There's obviously a lot of emotion around how she handled this,” said Summers.