The McGill Daily

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The McGill Daily
Type Twice weekly student newspaper
Format Tabloid
Owner Daily Publications Society
Publisher Daily Publications Society
Editor Drew Nelles
Founded 1911
Language English
Headquarters 3480 McTavish St., Room B24 Montréal, Québec H3A 1X9
Flag of Canada Canada
Circulation 11,000 (per issue)
ISSN 1192-4608
Website: mcgilldaily.com

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.

In 1967 freedom of speech issues arise after that the journal published an excerpt from Paul Krassner's The Parts That Were Left Out of the Kennedy Book, a grotesque satire on US president Lyndon B. Johnson and the corpse of John F. Kennedy. The Montreal police confiscated the issue and Rocke Robertson, principal of McGill University, charged student John Fekete, the supplement editor responsible for the publication, before the Senate Discipline Committee.[1]

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 left-wing student candidates, and backs grassroots student activism and direct action. Much of its features coverage is devoted to issues of social justice, accessibility, and inequality. 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 in a non-hierarchical manner. Editors and staff members have equal voting powers and speaking privileges at editorial board meetings. Each editor is paid a small monthly stipend. This stipend is the same for every editor, except those whose section appears only once a week (Mind&Body and Science+Technology), who receive half of the full stipend.

The McGill Daily's 2008-2009 editorial staff:

Coordinating Editor - PJ Vogt
Coordinating News Editor - Jennifer Markowitz
News Editors - Shannon Kiely, Nicholas Smith, Ali Withers
Features Editor - Claire Caldwell
Coordinating Culture Editor - Leah Pires
Culture Editors - Joshua Frank, Braden Goyette
Commentary & Compendium Editor - Max Halparin
Science+Technology Editor - Lindsay Waterman
Mind&Body Editor - Nadja Popovich
Photo Editor - Stephen Davis
Graphics Editor - Ben Peck
Production & Design Editors - Will Vanderbilt, Open
Web Editor - Open
Copy Editor - Whitney Mallett

[edit] Past contributors

Some of the Daily's past contributors who have gone on to fame include:

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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