The Daily Pennsylvanian
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
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| Owner | The Daily Pennsylvanian, Inc. |
| Editor | David Lei |
| 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 every weekday 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 and a weekly newspaper for parents/alumni called The Weekly Pennsylvanian. 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, in which the paper's top sportswriters share their insight on Penn sports. Accompanying the launch of the new blogs was a full redesign of the publication's website, the first in a number of years.
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 [although it does have the prestigious Annenberg School for Communication], 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, and most recently in 2007.[1] 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.
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[edit] Notable former staff members
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- George Wharton Pepper '87 (DP Editor-in-Chief), U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania
- Josiah Penniman '90 (DP Editor-in-Chief), president, University of Pennsylvania
- Owen Roberts '95 (DP Editor-in-Chief), associate justice, U.S. Supreme Court
- Wilson Hobson Jr. '24 (DP Editorial Board), bronze medalist, 1932 Olympic Games
- John Haines Ware III '30 (DP staff), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
- John Mayer '32 (DP Editorial Board), chairman and CEO, Mellon Bank
- Leonard Lauder '54 (DP staff), chairman and CEO, Estee Lauder Companies
- Michael Stuart Brown '62 (DP Editor-in-Chief), physician; 1985 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Claudia Cohen '62, gossip columnist, socialite and television reporter
- Richard Fisher '63 (DP Exec. Editor), New York real estate developer
- Arnold Eisen '73 (DP reporter), Chancellor, Jewish Theological Seminary
- Rick Dunham '75 (DP columnist), Washington bureau chief, Houston Chronicle
- Buzz Bissinger '76 (DP Editorial Page Editor), author, "Friday Night Lights"; 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
- Steve Stecklow '76 (DP reporter), staff writer, The Wall Street Journal; 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
- Dave Lieber '79 (DP Columnist), columnist, Fort Worth Star-Telegram; Best Columnist from National Society of Newspaper Columnists
- John Daniszewski '79 (DP City Editor), International Editor, Associated Press
- Steven Fried '79 (34th Street Editor), author; 1994 National Magazine Award for Public Interest
- Richard Stevenson '81 (DP Exec. Editor), deputy Washington bureau chief, New York Times
- Michael Bamberger '82 (DP reporter), senior writer, Sports Illustrated
- Howard Gensler '83 (34th Street Editor), columnist, Philadelphia Daily News
- Peter Canellos '84 (DP Exec. Editor), Washington bureau chief, Boston Globe
- Stefan Fatsis '85, Wall Street Journal reporter; author, "Word Freak"
- Jeffrey Goldberg '87 (DP Exec. Editor), national correspondent, Atlantic Monthly; 2003 National Magazine Award
- Beth Reinhard '90 (DP Projects Editor), political columnist, The Miami Herald
- Harold Ford Jr. '92 (DP columnist), chairman, Democratic Leadership Council
- Matt Selman '93 (34th Street Editor), producer, "The Simpsons"
- Stephen Glass '94 (DP Exec. Editor), disgraced former New Republic writer
- Charles Ornstein '96 (DP Exec. Editor), staff writer, The Los Angeles Times; 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
[edit] Recent Executive Editors
- David Lei '10 - 124th Board (Spring and Fall 2008)
- 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)
- Stephen Glass '94 - 109th Board (Spring and Fall 1993)
[edit] 124th Board of Editors and Managers
- David Lei '10 - Executive Editor
- Juliette Mullin '10 - Managing Editor
- Alex Raksin '09 - Business Manager
- Ashwin Shandilya '10 - Editorial Page Editor
- Paul Richards '10 - Senior News Editor
- Rebecca Kaplan '10 - Campus News Editor
- Emily Babay '10 - City News Editor
- Alissa Eisenberg '10 - Assignments Editor
- Allison Britt '10 - Copy Editor
- Naomi Tarlow '11 - Copy Editor
- Brandon Moyse '10 - Senior Sports Editor
- David Gurian-Peck '10 - Sports Editor
- Ryan Leske '11 - Senior Design Editor
- Ashley Takacs '10 - Design Editor
- Rebeca Martinez '10 - Senior Photo Editor
- Priscilla des Gachons '10 - Photo Editor
- Albert Sun '10 - Web Editor-in-Chief
- Thomas Jansen '11 - Web Development Editor
- Lindsey Stull '10 - Opinion Blog Editor
- Kerry Golds '09 - 34th Street Editor-in-Chief
- Julia Rubin '10 - 34th Street Managing Editor
- Sarah Beth McKay '11 - 34th Street Design Editor
- Nicholas Smith Wang '09 - Finance Manager
- Vivian Adams '09 - Accounting Manager
- Abby Weng '09 - Advertising Manager
- Rachel Cohen '11 - Credit Manager
- Ashley Tyson '10 - Marketing Manager
- Tiffany Zhou '11 - Production Manager[2]
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Home Page of The Daily Pennsylvanian
- Home Page of 34th Street Magazine (affiliate of The Daily Pennsylvanian)
- College Papers Grow Up (Newsweek article)
- Photography Department Blog (maintained by current and past Photo Editors)
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