The Daily Pennsylvanian

The Daily Pennsylvanian
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) The Daily Pennsylvanian, Inc.
President Colin Henderson
Founded 1885
Headquarters Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Website thedp.com
34th Street
Editor Emily Johns
Category Weekly cultural magazine
Company The Daily Pennsylvanian, Inc.
Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Website 34st.com

The Daily Pennsylvanian (The DP) 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 mailed to parents and alumni called The Weekly Pennsylvanian. The DP operates three principal websites—thedp.com, 34st.com, and underthebutton.com—as well as a variety of opinion, news, and sports blogs.

History

The Daily Pennsylvanian was founded in 1885 as a successor from the University Magazine, a publication by the Philomathean Society.[1] The newspaper has been published daily since 1894, except for a hiatus from May 1943 to November 1945 on account of World War II. The DP broke away from the university in 1962 to become an independent publication, incorporating in 1984 to solidify its financial and editorial independence from the university.[2] Also in 1962 the previously all-male daily began to accept female students. Among the early few women were Mary Selman Hadar, formerly an editor at the Washington Post; Clara Bargellini, today a professor of art at the National Autonomous University of Mexico; and Susan Nagler Perloff Susan Perloff, a Philadelphia freelance writer. Today the newspaper's budget is funded primarily through the sale of advertising by a student business staff.

Description

The DP is sometimes called Penn's "unofficial journalism department", because the university has no journalism department (though 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 Washington Post, Forbes, the Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Time, and Business Week.

Awards

The Daily Pennsylvanian has won many of the most prestigious awards in college journalism. In 2008, the newspaper was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists' National Mark of Excellence Award. In the same year, the paper won the Spring 2008 Columbia Gold Crown, awarded to only eight college newspapers nationwide, an award it has won many times before. It also received first place in the Associated Collegiate Press's Kansas City Convention Best of Show Competition in 2008. In 2004, the DP won the Pacemaker, awarded by the Associated Collegiate Press and the Newspaper Association of America Foundation, for a fourth consecutive year. It also won the award in 1990, 1997, and 1998, and most recently in 2007.[3] Several of its writers win Gold Circles from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association every year. It was also ranked as the "most read" college newspaper by The Princeton Review in 1990, 1997, 1998, and 2001. In 2006, College Publisher awarded the DP first place in the category of Best Online Sports Coverage and, in 2008, it was awarded an online Gold Crown for thedp.com.

Notable former staff members

References

  1. ↑ http://www.philomathean.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/dpfocus175.pdf
  2. ↑ "About". The Daily Pennsylvanian. 2012-12-25. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  3. ↑ "ACP - Contest Winners". Studentpress.org. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  4. ↑ "George Wharton Pepper (1867-1961)". University of Pennsylvania University Archives. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  5. ↑ "Guide, Josiah H. Penniman Papers". University of Pennsylvania University Archives. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  6. ↑ "Josiah C. McCracken (1876-1957), University of Pennsylvania University Archives". Archives.upenn.edu. 1962-02-15. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  7. ↑ "Wilson Thomas Hobson Jr. (1902-1975), University of Pennsylvania University Archives". Archives.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  8. ↑ "Oh, Four Oh Four". Daily Pennsylvanian. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  9. ↑ "Ron Perelman Sues Family of Ex-Wife Claudia Cohen". nymag.com. Retrieved 2013-12-28.
  10. ↑ "09/05/06, Deaths - Almanac, Vol. 53, No. 2". Upenn.edu. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  11. ↑ "Gazette | Feature: Arnold Eisen's Moment". Upenn.edu. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  12. ↑ "Benjamin L. Ginsberg". Patton Boggs. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  13. ↑ McIlvain, Josh (2008-12-25). "Pulitzer Prize ‘like winning Super Bowl’". Chestnut Hill Local. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  14. ↑ "Oh, Four Oh Four" (PDF). Daily Pennsylvanian. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  15. ↑ "Gazette | Alumni: Profiles". Upenn.edu. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  16. ↑ "The Dallas Morning News Hires Veteran Watchdog Consumer Columnist Dave Lieber". MarketWatch. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  17. 1 2 "Making News". Wharton Magazine. 2004-01-01. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  18. ↑ "Oh, Four Oh Four" (PDF). Thedp.com. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  19. ↑ "The Pennsylvania Gazette: Harold E. Ford Jr". Upenn.edu. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  20. ↑ "Oh, Four Oh Four" (PDF). Daily Pennsylvanian. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  21. ↑ "Josh Tyrangiel Names Editor of Business Week". Media Decoder. Retrieved 201-3-10-03. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)

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