The ''Yale Daily News'' is an independent
student newspaper
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published by
Yale University
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...
students in
New Haven
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,
Connecticut
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since January 28, 1878. It is the oldest college daily newspaper in the United States. The ''Yale Daily News'' has consistently been ranked among the top college daily newspapers in the country.
History and description
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'', the ''Daily News'', or the ''Daily Yalie''), the paper is produced in the
Briton Hadden
Briton Hadden (February 18, 1898 – February 27, 1929) was the co-founder of ''Time'' magazine with his Yale classmate Henry Luce. He was ''Time''s first editor and the inventor of its revolutionary writing style, known as Timestyle. Though ...
Memorial Building at 202 York Street in New Haven and printed off-site at
Turley Publications in
Palmer, Massachusetts
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. 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."
Each day, reporters, mainly freshmen and sophomores, cover the university, the city of New Haven and sometimes the state of
Connecticut
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. 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 and culture spread on Wednesdays and a science and technology spread on Tuesdays.
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.
In 1969, Yale College became coeducational, and by 1972, Mally Cox and Lise Goldberg were elected as the first female members of the ''YDN'' editorial board. Andy Perkins was elected as the first female editor-in-chief in 1981, and Amy Oshinsky was elected as the first female publisher in 1977.
The paper version of the ''News'' is distributed for free throughout Yale's campus and the city of New Haven and 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
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'' student newspaper, bottoming out at 570 in 1994. The ''News'' switched to free distribution later that year.
In 1978, the Oldest College Daily Foundation was created following a capital campaign to prevent the university from buying the Briton Hadden Memorial Building. The ''News'' survived for a century "solely on the income generated by subscription and ad sales."
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
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'', ''
The Wall Street Journal
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'', ''
The New York Times
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'', ''
The Los Angeles Times
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'', ''
Time
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'', ''
Newsweek
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'', ''
The New Yorker
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'' and ''
The Economist
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''.
In addition to the newspaper, the Yale Daily News Publishing Company also produces a monthly ''Yale Daily News Magazine'' and special newspaper issues for the incoming freshman class, Family Weekend, Yale's Class Day and Commencement, and The Game against Harvard University. The ''News'' also edits ''The Insider's Guide to the Colleges'', a recurring guide to hundreds of American and Canadian colleges including rankings by unusual criteria.
In 1920, the ''News'' began to report on national news and viewpoints. In 1940 and 1955, when professional dailies were not operating due to unrest among its workers, the ''News'' continued to report on national topics. Today, the "Nation" and "World" sections publish stories and photos from the Associated Press.
On September 3, 2008, the "Oldest College Daily" "premiere
a new look" designed by
Mario Garcia of Garcia Media and Pegie Stark Adam of Stark Adam Design. The ''News front page design for November 5, 2008, the day after
Barack Obama
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's victory in the
2008 Presidential Election was featured in the
Poynter Institute
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book: ''President Obama Election 2008: Collection of Newspaper Front Pages by the Poynter Institute''.
In 2009, the ''Yale Daily News'' won the
Associated Collegiate Press Newspaper Pacemaker Award. On September 10 of that year the ''News'' broke the news of the
murder of Annie Le
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, a Yale graduate student reported missing and subsequently found murdered in the basement of her laboratory. Later, in April 2016, the ''News'' similarly broke the story of the University's decision to retain the namesake of Calhoun College but eliminate the title "master", as well as of the Yale Corporation's commitment to the namesake of Benjamin Franklin College three years before its public announcement.
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.
The Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University has a copy of every issue published between 1890 and 1959. The library's extensive historical archives, in addition to the archives of the
Yale Club of New York City
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, amounting to some 20,263 issues published between 1878 and 1995, have been published in an indexed and searchable public database.
Contested claim
The ''News'', founded in 1878, calls itself the "oldest college daily" in the United States, a claim contested by other student newspapers.
The ''
Harvard Crimson
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'' calls itself "the oldest continuously published college daily", but it was founded in 1873 as a
fortnight
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ly publication called ''The Magenta'' and did not appear daily until 1883. (The ''News'' ceased publishing briefly during
World War I
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and
World War II
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after editors volunteered for military service.) The ''
Daily Targum
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'' at
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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
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'', founded one year earlier than the ''YDN'' in 1877, calls itself the second-oldest college daily, but was not independent until the 1960s. Similarly, the ''
Daily Californian
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'' at the
University of California, Berkeley
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, was founded in 1871 but did not achieve independence until 1971. The ''
Cornell Daily Sun
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''The Sun'' features coverage of the university and its environs as well as stories from the Associa ...
'', launched in 1880, calls itself the "oldest independent college newspaper", notwithstanding the ''YDNs independence since its founding two years earlier. The ''
Dartmouth'' of
Dartmouth College
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, 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.
Yale TV
Yale TV (stylized as YTV) is a
student television station on the campus of Yale University. The station began broadcasting in October 1953. At the time, students could watch the broadcasts on a closed-circuit television system, but had to also turn on a radio to hear the audio.
In the fall of 2012, the ''Yale Daily News'' created YTV, which produces a daily roundup of the paper's headlines as well as other videos on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Produced by undergraduate students in a studio located in the ''Yale Daily News'' building, these videos are posted to YTV's
YouTube
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channel, "Yale Daily News Multimedia." YTV was created by Raleigh Cavero, Charlie Kelly, Lilly Fast, and Danielle Trubow, who served as the station's first editors.
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Biography
Born in Newark, New J ...
, professor emeritus of history at Yale
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Lyman Spitzer
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, theoretical physicist
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Daniel Yergin
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, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and economic researcher
In popular culture
* The characters
Rory Gilmore
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and
Paris Geller
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Paris is introduced as an ambitious high-school student from a wealthy family, who was raised ...
have both served as editors of the ''Yale Daily News'' on
the CW
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TV show ''
Gilmore Girls
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''.
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The Great Gatsby
''The Great Gatsby'' is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts First-person narrative, first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious mil ...
'', narrator and protagonist
Nick Carraway
Nick Carraway is a fictional character and narrator in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel ''The Great Gatsby''.
Character biography
In his narration, Nick Carraway explains that he was born in the Middle West. The Carraway family owned a hardware ...
says that he wrote a series of editorials for the paper while in college.
["I was rather literary in college – one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News'" – ]Nick Carraway
Nick Carraway is a fictional character and narrator in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel ''The Great Gatsby''.
Character biography
In his narration, Nick Carraway explains that he was born in the Middle West. The Carraway family owned a hardware ...
in The Great Gatsby
''The Great Gatsby'' is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts First-person narrative, first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious mil ...
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age—a term he popularize ...
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