Yale Daily News, September 18, 2009 |
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Type | Daily student newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner | The Yale Daily News Publishing Company |
Publisher | Preetha Nandi |
Editor | Max de La Bruyère |
Staff writers | 250 |
Founded | 1878 |
Headquarters | 202 York Street New Haven, Connecticut 06511 |
Official website | http://www.yaledailynews.com |
The Yale Daily News is an independent student newspaper published by Yale University students in New Haven, Connecticut since January 28, 1878. The newspaper's first editors wrote:
“ | The innovation which we begin by this morning's issue is justified by the dullness of the times, and the demand for news among us. | ” |
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Financially and editorially independent of Yale University since its founding, the paper is published by a student editorial and business staff five days a week, Monday through Friday, during Yale's academic year. Called the YDN (or sometimes the News or the Daily News), the paper is produced in the Briton Hadden Memorial Building at 202 York Street in New Haven and printed off-site at the Republican-American in Waterbury, Connecticut. Each day, reporters, mainly freshmen and sophomores, cover the university, the city of New Haven and sometimes the state of Connecticut. An expanded sports section is published on Monday, a two-page Opinion Forum on Friday, and "WEEKEND", an arts and living section, also on Friday. The News prints an Arts & Culture spread on Tuesdays, a Science and Technology spread on Wednesdays, and a Business & Enterprise page on Thursdays.
Staff members are generally elected as editors on the managing board during their junior year. A single chairman led the News until 1970. Today, the editor-in-chief and publisher act as co-presidents of the Yale Daily News Publishing Company. The "News' View," a staff editorial, represents the position of the majority of the editorial board.
The paper version of the News is distributed for free throughout Yale's campus and the city of New Haven; it is also published online. The paper was once a subscription-only publication, delivered to student postal boxes for $40 a year. Subscriptions declined after the 1986 founding of the weekly (and free) Yale Herald student newspaper, bottoming out at 570 in 1994.[1] The News switched to free distribution later that year.
The News serves as a training ground for journalists at Yale, and has produced a steady stream of professional reporters, who work at newspapers and magazines including The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Time, Newsweek, The New Yorker and The Economist.
In addition to the newspaper, the Yale Daily News Publishing Company also produces a monthly Yale Daily News Magazine; special issues of the newspaper for the incoming freshman class, Yale's Class Day and Commencement, and the last home game of the football season; and The Insider's Guide to the Colleges.
On September 3, 2008, the "Oldest College Daily" "premiere[d] a new look" designed by Mario Garcia of Garcia Media and Pegie Stark Adam of Stark Adam Design.[2] The News' front page design for November 5, 2008, the day after Barack Obama's victory in the 2008 Presidential Election was featured in the Poynter Institute book: President Obama Election 2008: Collection of Newspaper Front Pages by the Poynter Institute.[3]
"Cross Campus", a daily feature on the front page of the News is a collection of short, pithy news items and is published online as a blog.[4] The News also publishes a sports blog titled Boola Boola[5] and an arts and living blog titled Scene Blog.[6]
In 2009, the Yale Daily News won the Associated Collegiate Press Newspaper Pacemaker Award.[7]
On September 10, 2009, the News broke the news of the murder of Annie Le, a Yale graduate student reported missing and subsequently found murdered in the basement of her laboratory, .[8]
In summer 2010, the 78-year-old Briton Hadden Memorial Building was renovated, increasing the amount of usable space in the basement and adding a multimedia studio in the heart of the newsroom. [9] On October 16, the News is to rededicate the newly renovated space. [10]
The News claims to be the "oldest college daily" in the United States. This claim, however, is contested by other student newspapers. The Harvard Crimson claims to be "the oldest continuously published college daily", but traces its roots to an 1873 bimonthly publication called The Magenta. The News ceased publishing briefly during both World War I and World War II after editors volunteered for military service. The Daily Targum at Rutgers University was founded in 1869 but was published initially as a monthly newspaper and did not gain independence from the University until 1980. The Columbia Daily Spectator, founded one year earlier than the YDN in 1877, claims to be the second-oldest college daily, but was not independent until the 1960s. Similarly, The Daily Californian at the University of California, Berkeley was founded in 1871 but did not achieve independence until 1971. The Cornell Daily Sun, launched in 1880, claimed to be the "oldest independent college newspaper", notwithstanding the YDN's independence since its founding two years earlier. The Dartmouth of Dartmouth College, which opened in 1799 as the Dartmouth Gazette, calls itself the oldest college newspaper, though not the oldest daily. Most accurately put, the News is the oldest independent college daily newspaper.
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