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 the Greenwich Village communities.

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[edit] About WSN

The newspaper has a circulation of 10,000.[citation needed] An estimated 55,000 people read the newspaper online at www.nyunews.com.[citation needed] It is published Monday through Friday during the fall and spring semesters, with additional issues published in the summer.

WSN is run solely by NYU students, with the paper's senior staff composed of undergraduates. Though its offices are located in an NYU building, WSN is editorially independent from the university. The newspaper's business office is responsible for selling advertisements for the newspaper, which funds the production of WSN.

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 editorial positions is one semester.

The editor-in-chief for the 2008 calendar year is Gallatin junior Adam Playford.

[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.

In 2000, WSN launched nyunews.com. In 2007, WSN launched blogs.nyunews.com.

[edit] Awards

The Washington Square News won an Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker award in 2004. [1]

[edit] Notable former staff

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