The Tufts Daily

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Tufts Daily

Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet

Owner	(none)
Editor	Kat Schmidt
Founded	1980
Headquarters	Medford, Massachusetts

Website: www.tuftsdaily.com

The Tufts Daily, known on campus simply as The Daily, is the student newspaper at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. Its first issue was published on February 25, 1980. The paper covers news, arts, and sports both on campus and in the Boston area, and allows members of the Tufts community to submit "viewpoint" opinion pieces about any campus or global issue.

Unlike other student organizations and publications at Tufts, the Daily is financially self-sustaining, and does not receive funding from the student activities fee.

During the Daily's first two decades, it was engaged in competition with a weekly campus newspaper, the Tufts Observer. The two newspapers co-existed until 2001, when the Observer changed to a newsmagazine format.

1 Sections
2 Staff
3 Notable alumni
4 External links

[edit] Sections

The Daily has four sections of original editorial content (news, features, sports, and arts), one section allowing signed submissions from community members (viewpoints), and sections covering both national and international news through wire stories. The Daily opines on campus, national, and global issues through original editorials published four times a week.

[edit] News, Features, Arts, and Sports

The Daily's news section reports on Tufts events, campus politics, and student life. It also offers regular stories on community issues in Medford and Somerville.

The features section typically contains two articles offering more detailed perspective on student trends, at Tufts and nationwide. It also publishes several weekly series focusing on subjects such as the economics of college life and the career paths of prominent Tufts alumni.

The arts section of the paper has been expanding. Beginning as a single article in the paper's first issue in 1980, the arts section now runs three to four articles each day, covering on- and off-campus events. In 2005, the paper relaunched the "Weekender" supplement, an insert magazine that ran from 1987 until 2002. The new Weekender includes lengthy features, interviews with a national celebrity, "Heatseekers" - the staff's favorite new tracks, a weekly "Fashion Roast and Toast," and a staff Top Ten list. The four page section appears inside Thursday's paper.

The sports section gives in-depth coverage of all Tufts varsity sports and occasional reporting on club and intramural sports. Analysis and profiles of Tufts athletes are provided through columns and weekly features, and major professional sports are also covered in weekly "Inside" columns.

[edit] Viewpoints

The Daily viewpoints section accepts submissions from all members of the Tufts community on any campus, national, or global issue. It has become an important platform for campus debate, with particlarly explosive pieces often spurring several responses or back-and-forth disputes that can span an entire semester.

[edit] Editorial

The Daily has traditionally run one editorial four times per week, Monday through Thursday. For the Spring 2006 semester, this is expected to increase to include Friday editorials. An appointed student writes the editorials, which are unsigned, independently of the executive board. Editorial writers are represented on the masthead.

[edit] Special Sections

Although the vast majority of The Daily's members are undergraduates, students from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy in Boston prepare a monthly section, "Balance." This four page supplement covers nutrition and nutrition trends. While the writers are graduate students, this section is edited and laid out along with the rest of the Daily in Medford.

During the Fall 2005 semester, the paper added a fortnightly supplement, "Glocal Economics." The section covers local and international economics, drawing from Tufts' pool of economic expertise. This section was published weekly, starting in January 2006.

[edit] Staff

The current editor-in-chief for the Fall 2006 semester is Kat Schmidt.

Past editors-in-chief include:

2005–2006: Allison Beth Roeser (fall), Patrice Taddonio (spring)
2004–2005: Jonathan A. Graham (fall), Mark W. Evitt (spring)
2003–2004: Adam D. Cooper (fall), Ethan Matthieu Austin (spring)
2002–2003: Rachel A. Rubenson (fall), Daniel Fowler (spring)
2001–2002: Benjamin Gedan (fall), Russell Capone (spring)
2000–2001: Daniel Barbarisi (fall), Benjamin Oshlag (spring)
1999–2000: Lauren Heist (fall), Jordan Brenner (spring)
1998–1999: Pete Sanborn (fall), Jason Cohen (spring)
1997–1998: Karen A. Epstein (fall), Pete Sanborn (spring)
1996–1997: John B. O'Keefe (fall), Dan Tobin (spring)
1995–1996: David B. Meyers (fall), Jessica N. Rosenthal (spring)
1994–1995: Marc J. Sheinkin (fall), Nadya J. Sbaiti (spring)
1993–1994: Elin M. Dugan (fall), Caroline C. Schaefer (spring)
1992–1993: Patrick Healy (fall), Paul Horan (spring)
1991–1992: Geoff Lepper (fall), David Saltzman (spring)
1990–1991: Lauren Keefe (fall), Anna George (spring)
1989–1990: Steve Clay (fall), Bob Goodman (spring)
1988–1989: Julie Beglin (fall), Kelley Alessi (spring)
1987–1988: Jon Newman (fall), Jonathan Larsen (spring)
1986–1987: Mike Epstein (fall), Mike Epstein (spring)
1985–1986: Andy Feinberg (fall), David J. Kramer (spring)
1984–1985: Sue Roth (fall), Barri Hope Gordon (spring)
1983–1984: Marina Kalb (fall), Sue Roth (spring)
1982–1983: Anthony Everett (fall), Sue Lessler (spring)
1981–1982: Art Charlton (fall), Anthony Everett (spring)
1980–1981: William Frechtman (fall), William Frechtman (spring)
1980: William Frechtman and Robert Farago (spring)

[edit] Notable alumni

Patrick Healy, writer for the New York Times
Jacob Silberberg. photographer for the Associated Press
Dan Barbarisi, reporter for The Providence Journal
Elliott Wiley, Jr., production assistant for ESPN
Emily Chasan, reporter for Reuters
Anthony Everett, anchor and reporter for WCVB
Tony Massarotti, sportswriter for the Boston Herald, author, and Boston sports radio personality
(Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay, was briefly a photographer for the Daily during his undergraduate career.)
Bob Goodman, Usability Consultant