McGill Daily
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| McGill Daily | |
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| Type | Bi-weekly student newspaper |
| Format | Tabloid |
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| Owner | Daily Publications Society |
| Editor | Rishi Hargovan |
| Founded | 1911 |
| Headquarters | 3480 McTavish St. Rm. B-24 Montreal QC, H3A 1X9 |
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| Website: McGill Daily | |
The McGill Daily is a campus newspaper created and run by students of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The paper was first published in 1911.
The paper was originally published daily, but is now issued twice a week. It began as a broadsheet that covered mainly sports and it retained the broadsheet format for many years, but it now publishes in the tabloid format and covers a range of topics and genres in its pages. The paper's main sections are news, culture, mind & body, features, commentary, compendium, and science & technology.
Since 1980, The Daily has been independent from student government. It is published by the Daily Publications Society, whose membership automatically includes all McGill undergraduate students and most graduate students. It is the most widely distributed student publication at McGill. In fact, it currently claims to be the second-largest student newspaper in Canada, with a weekly circulation of 28,000 as of 2005 (together with its francophone sister paper, Le Délit français).
The paper is generally considered the leading progressive voice on the McGill campus, compared to the more centrist McGill Tribune, and the other faculty-specific papers such as the Bull & Bear. The Daily generally endorses progressive student candidates, and backs grassroots student activism and direct action. Much of its features coverage is devoted to issues of social justice and equal accessibility and opportunity. However, the paper's longstanding policy of publishing almost all letters means that dissenting points of view and lively debate occur within the newspaper's pages.
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The McGill Daily is run technically in a non-hierarchical manner, however the Coordinating Editor gets a significantly larger stipend than other editors.
The McGill Daily's current editorial staff:
- Coordinating Editor - Rishi Hargovan
- Coordinating News Editor - Sarah Colgrove
- News Editors - Kelly Ebbels, Drew Nelles, Jesse Rosenfeld
- Features Editor - Jeremy Delman
- Coordinating Culture Editor - Simon Lewsen
- Culture Editors - Farrah Merali, Ben Sutton
- Commentary & Compendium Editor - Daniel Goldbloom
- Mind & Body Editor - Elissa Gurman
- Science+Technology Editor - Marion Malone
- Photo Editors - Josh Chapman, Carina Sorensen
- Production & Design Editor - Angel Chen
- Copy and Web Editor - Kate McCurdy
[edit] Past Contributors
Some of the Daily's past contributors who have gone on to fame include:
- Donna Balkan, first executive director of the Centre for Investigative Journalism (now the Canadian Association of Journalists)
- Leonard Cohen, poet and songwriter
- Irwin Cotler, international human rights lawyer and Member of Parliament
- Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker
- Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post and TIME columnist
- Irving Layton, poet
- Phyllis Platt, executive director of arts and entertainment at the CBC
A longer list is available at the official website of the publication, where an online version of the paper is also published.
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