Washington Square News
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The Washington Square News is the daily student newspaper of New York University. The newspaper, commonly known on campus as WSN, serves the NYU and Washington Square Park communities.
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[edit] About WSN
The newspaper has a circulation of 15,000. An estimated 55,000 people read the newspaper online at www.nyunews.com. It is published Monday through Friday during the fall and spring semesters, with five additional issues published in the summer.
WSN is run solely by NYU students, with the entire editorial board being comprised of undergraduates. The term for the Editor-in-Chief is one calendar year, beginning in the spring semester and ending in the fall semester. The term for all other senior editorial positions is one semester.
The Editor-in-Chief for the 2006 calendar year is Sarah Portlock.
The editorial advisor is Professor Dick Blood, a retired professor in NYU's graduate school of journalism.
The newspaper's business office is responsible for selling advertisements for the newspaper, which funds the production of WSN.
[edit] History
The newspaper was born in 1973 as the result of NYU's merging of their two campuses: the University Heights campus in the Bronx had published the Heights Daily News, while the Washington Square campus in lower Manhattan originally published the Washington Square Bulletin.
[edit] Awards
The Washington Square News won an Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker award in 2004. [1]
