The Daily Pennsylvanian
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| The Daily Pennsylvanian | |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
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| Owner | The Daily Pennsylvanian, Inc. |
| Editor | Shawn Safvi |
| Founded | 1885 |
| Price | Free |
| Headquarters | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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| Website: www.dailypennsylvanian.com | |
The Daily Pennsylvanian is the independent daily student newspaper of the University of Pennsylvania.
It is published five days a week when the university is in session by a staff of more than 250 students. During the summer months a smaller staff produces a weekly version called the Summer Pennsylvanian. The DP also publishes a weekly arts and entertainment magazine called 34th Street Magazine. The publication's most recent initiatives were launched in the beginning of the Fall 2006 semester: The Spin is the newspaper's new opinion blog and On the Ground features short commentary from various members of the Penn community. The new blogs join The Buzz, launched in Spring of 2006, where the paper's top sportswriters share their insight on Penn sports. Accompanying the launch of the new blogs was a full redesign of the publications's website, the first in a number of years, which was met by mixed reviews.
The newspaper was founded in 1885 and has been published daily since 1894, except for a hiatus from May 1943 to November 1945 on account of World War II. It broke away from Penn's student government in 1962 to become an independent publication. The DP incorporated in 1984 to solidify its financial and editorial independence from the university. Today the newspaper's budget is funded primarily through the sale of advertising by a student business staff.
The Daily Pennsylvanian is sometimes called Penn's "unofficial journalism department," seeing as the University of Pennsylvania has no official journalism department, and because many of its staff members go on to pursue careers in the print, broadcast, and electronic media. DP alumni can be found at a number of major daily newspapers and national magazines, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Time Magazine and Business Week.
The Daily Pennsylvanian has won many of the most prestigious awards in college journalism. In 2004, it won the Pacemaker, awarded by the Associated Collegiate Press and the Newspaper Association of America Foundation, for a record-setting fourth consecutive year. It also won the award in 1990, 1997, and 1998. Several of its writers won Gold and Silver Crowns from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. It was also ranked as the "most read" college newspaper by The Princeton Review in 1990, 1997, 1998, and 2001. Most recently, the DP won the Spring 2005 Columbia Gold Crown, awarded to only eight college newspapers nationwide. In 2006, College Publisher awarded the DP first place in the category of Best Online Sports Coverage.
The 123rd Board of Editors and Managers was elected in December of 2006.
[edit] Notable former staff members
- Robert Frost '60
- Buzz Bissinger '67
- Howard Gensler '83
- Stephen Glass '94
- Adam Rubin '95
- Richard Stevenson '81
- Randall Lane '90
[edit] Recent Executive Editors
- Shawn Safvi '08 - 123rd Board (Spring and Fall 2007)
- Jeff Greenwald '07 - 122nd Board (Spring and Fall 2006)
- David Burrick '06 - 121st Board (Spring and Fall 2005)
- Chris George '05 - 120th Board (Spring and Fall 2004)
- Amy Potter '04 - 119th Board (Spring and Fall 2003)
- Matthew Mugmon '03 - 118th Board (Spring and Fall 2002)
- Michael Vondriska '02 - 117th Board (Spring and Fall 2001)
- Binyamin Appelbaum '01 - 116th Board (Spring and Fall 2000)
- Kent Malmros '00 - 115th Board (Spring and Fall 1999)
- Michael Mugmon '99 - 114th Board (Spring and Fall 1998)
- Eric Goldstein '98 - 113th Board (Spring and Fall 1997)
- Adam Mark '97 - 112th Board (Spring and Fall 1996)
- Charles Ornstein '96 - 111th Board (Spring and Fall 1995)
- Jordana Horn '95 - 110th Board (Spring and Fall 1994)
