The Record board has elected Hannah Marx ’27 and Juno Pelczar ’27 to serve as managing editors for the newspaper in the fall of 2026. They will join incoming Editor-in-Chief Sonia Zinkin-Meyers ’27. Marx, Pelczar, and Zinkin-Meyers will succeed current Editor-in-Chief Ellie Davis ’26.5 and Managing Editors Rosario Carranza Rengifo ’27 and Ben Niewoehner ’27.
Next semester, Marx hopes to build on the authentic reporting that she thinks the Record has completed during her time at the College. “I want to help guide a paper that so many students rely on to understand and engage with campus life, while also continuing the kind of honest and important reporting that made me want to join the Record in the first place,” she said.
Pelczar hopes to continue reporting on events that are important to students, keeping a pulse on what is relevant to the community. “I want to make sure that Williams is keeping up with the changes and debates that are happening around us — those that are potentially going to affect us but are so easy to ignore,” she said. “I’m a fan of the energetic discourse that our reporting has prompted over the past semester. The goal is that everyone on campus has a reason to read and talk about the Record.”
Meet the incoming Record management:
Hannah Marx ’27
Marx is a history and Arabic studies major and Jewish studies concentrator from New York City. She is currently an executive editor at-large and has previously served as the executive editor for features, as well as a college news editor.
In her time on the Record, Marx has uncovered many of the lesser-known aspects of the College’s history, such as Crown Prince of Iran Reza Pahlavi’s time at the College and how Osama bin Laden’s personal cassette tapes ended up in Dodd Annex.
Outside of the Record, Marx is a board member of the Berkshire Center for International Policy and will serve as its president next year. She is also a Global Scholar and a member of the history department’s junior advisory board.
Juno Pelczar ’27
Pelczar is a history major and French concentrator from Kent County, Md., and Tokachi, Japan. Most recently, she served as the executive editor for opinions and, before that, as an opinions section editor.
Pelczar looks forward to becoming a managing editor at a time when the media’s role and perception is evolving as quickly as ever. “I think student journalism is really important at this moment where current events come and go like rotary sushi and trust in the media is like the punchline to a joke,” she said. “It’s been really rewarding so far to be a part of trying to report the news, making tough editorial decisions, and still bringing levity to the page. I see management as a way to be even more in the thick of things.”
In her time on the Record, Pelczar has covered topics like the College’s On the Log initiative and the closing of the North Adams Urgent Care.
Outside of the Record, Pelczar sings in the Williams Chamber Choir and enjoys cooking dinner for her friends.
