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The Yale Daily News is a newspaper published by Yale University students in New Haven, Connecticut since January 28, 1878. The paper's first editors wrote:
| “ | The innovation which we begin by this morning's issue is justified by the dullness of the time and the demand for news among us. | ” |
Financially and editorially independent of Yale 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 offsite at the Republican-American in Waterbury, CT. Each day, reporters, mainly freshmen and sophomores, cover the University and the city of New Haven. An expanded sports section is published on Monday; "Scene", an arts and living section, on Friday.
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 paper. 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 by mail for $40 a year. But 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 claims to be the "Oldest College Daily" in the United States. This claim, however, is contested by other student papers. The Harvard Crimson claims to be "the oldest continuously published college daily", but traces its roots to an 1873 bimonthly publication called The Magenta. Likewise, the Daily Targum at Rutgers University was founded in 1869 but was published initially as a monthly newspaper. The Columbia Daily Spectator, founded one year earlier than the YDN in 1877, claims to be the second-oldest college daily. 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. Rumpus Magazine, a Yale news and humor monthly founded in 1992, satirically claims to be the "Oldest College Tabloid."
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 like The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Time, Newsweek, The New Yorker and The Economist. (See below.)
In addition to the newspaper, the Yale Daily News Publishing Company also produces a monthly Yale Daily News Magazine; special issues of the newspaper before the last home game of the football season and the first home Ivy League basketball game; The Politic, a nonpartisan magazine covering political issues; and The Insider's Guide to the Colleges.
On September 3rd, 2008, the "Oldest College Daily" will "premiere a new look" designed by Mario Garcia of GarciaMedia and Peggy Stark Adam of Stark Adam Design.[2]
Alumni
Political
- Lanny Davis, advisor to President Clinton, author and public relations expert
- David Gergen, advisor to four Presidents and U.S. News and World Report editor-at-large
- Reed Hundt, former FCC chairman
- Joseph Lieberman, U.S. Senator and 2000 Vice Presidential nominee
- Robert D. Orr, former governor of Indiana
- Sargent Shriver, first Peace Corps director
- Potter Stewart, former Supreme Court associate justice
- Stuart Symington, former U.S. senator from Missouri
- Strobe Talbott, president of The Brookings Institution and former Deputy Secretary of State under President Clinton
- Garry Trudeau, cartoonist and creator of Doonesbury, which first appeared in the News' pages as Bull Tales
Journalists
- Pete Axthelm, famed sportswriter
- Melinda Beck, Marketplace editor of the Wall Street Journal
- Christopher Buckley, novelist and writer
- William F. Buckley, Jr., founder of National Review
- Dan Froomkin, White House Briefing columnist for Washingtonpost.com
- Lloyd Grove, freelance writer, former gossip columnist for the New York Daily News and The Washington Post
- John Hersey, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author
- Robert Kaiser, associate editor of The Washington Post
- Jonathan Kaufman, editor of the Wall Street Journal
- Adam Liptak, supreme court correspondent for The New York Times
- Henry Luce and Briton Hadden, co-founders of TIME
- Dana Milbank, White House correspondent for The Washington Post
- James Ottaway, the senior vice president of Dow Jones & Co
- Robert Semple, a member of The New York Times editorial board
- Paul Steiger, managing editor of The Wall Street Journal
- Melinda Beck, columnist for The Wall Street Journal
- John Tierney, columnist for The New York Times
- Calvin Trillin, columnist and humorist
- Jacob Weisberg, editor of Slate
- Jodi Rudoren, deputy metro editor for The New York Times
- Steven R Weisman, reporter for New York Times
- Michael Barbaro, City Hall reporter for The New York Times
- Charles Forelle, European correspondent for The Wall Street Journal
- Louise Story, Wall Street reporter for The New York Times
- Alex Berenson, business reporter for The New York Times
- Perry Bacon, political reporter for The Washington Post
- Charles Duhigg, business reporter for The New York Times
- Chris Rovzar, reporter for New York Magazine
Other
- Kingman Brewster, former president of Yale University and ambassador to the Court of St. James
- Lan Samantha Chang, director of Iowa Writers' Workshop
- Theo Epstein, Boston Red Sox general manager
- Thayer Hobson, chairman of William Morrow and Company[3]
- Paul Mellon, philanthropist and major donor to Yale
- John E. Pepper, Jr., chairman of the Walt Disney Company and CEO of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, former CEO and chairman of Procter & Gamble, and Yale's former vice president of finance and administration and senior fellow of the Yale Corporation.
- Gaddis Smith, Larned professor emeritus of history at Yale
- Lyman Spitzer, theoretical physicist
- Daniel Yergin, Pulitzer-prize winning author and economic researcher
- Samantha Power, Pulitzer-prize winning author and professor
Popular culture
- The characters Rory Gilmore and Paris Geller have both served as editors of the Yale Daily News on the CW TV show Gilmore Girls.
