''The McGill Daily'' is an independent student newspaper at

McGill University McGill University (french: link=no, Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous ...

and is entirely run by students. Despite its name, the ''Daily'' has reduced its print publication to once a week, normally on Mondays, in addition to producing online-only content and weekly radio segments for CKUT 90.3 FM. The ''Daily'' was originally published daily in 1911. It began as a sports rag in the broadsheet format and has since transitioned to the compact or tabloid format, covering a wide range of issues related to the McGill and greater Montreal communities. The paper's content sections are News, Commentary, Culture, Features, Sci+Tech, Unfit to Print (radio), and Compendium!.

History

The ''Daily'' is one of Canada's oldest university publications, continually publishing since the early 1900s. At one time, the paper was even "the oldest daily student newspaper in the Commonwealth". The ''Daily ''has been the training ground for generations of journalists since its inception in 1911. Currently the ''Daily'' is one of the largest student newspapers in Canada and is widely read both on the McGill campus and around Montreal. ''The Daily'' began as a broadsheet that focused mainly on sports news. Its evolution has taken many directions. Over the years, it has taken stands considered controversial at their times, such as publishing a special issue for International Women’s Day in the late 1970. The ''Daily'' has been independent from student government since 1980. It is published by the Daily Publications Society, an autonomous body whose membership includes all McGill downtown campus undergraduate students except Continuing Education, as well as all graduate students excluding non-residents, graduate medical and graduate dentistry students. In 2010, the Daily Publications Society proposed raising the mandatory fee from $5 to $6 per semester due to declining ad revenues. A "No Committee" formed by students challenged the fee increase, saying that the money could be better spent on underfunded programs. With a high voter turnout, the referendum passed by 2.6%.

Editorial staff

''The McGill Daily'' is run in a non-hierarchical manner when compared to other publications. Editors and staff members have equal voting powers and speaking privileges at editorial board meetings. Each editor is paid a monthly stipend. When the paper was twice-weekly, the amount of the stipend was determined by the frequency of each section's appearance, with editors of sections appearing once weekly receiving half of the amount received by editors of sections appearing twice weekly. With a reduction in frequency of print publication, the allocation of stipends once reflected amount of content published, with previously twice-weekly sections publishing more online-only content, and continuing to receive twice the amount of "half" sections. However, as of November 2019, all editors receive equal stipends.

Past contributors

Some of the ''Daily'''s notable past contributors include: *

Leonard Cohen Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist. His work explored religion, politics, isolation, depression, sexuality, loss, death, and romantic relationships. He was inducted in ...

, poet and songwriter *

Irwin Cotler Irwin Cotler, PC, OC, OQ (born May 8, 1940) is a retired Canadian politician who was Member of Parliament for Mount Royal from 1999 to 2015. He served as the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada from 2003 until the Liberal gov ...

, international human rights lawyer and Member of Parliament for the

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Adam Gopnik Adam Gopnik (born August 24, 1956) is an American writer and essayist. He is best known as a staff writer for ''The New Yorker,'' to which he has contributed non-fiction, fiction, memoir, and criticism since 1986. He is the author of nine books ...

, ''The New Yorker'' *

Charles Krauthammer Charles Krauthammer (; March 13, 1950 – June 21, 2018) was an American political columnist. A moderate liberal who turned independent conservative as a political pundit, Krauthammer won the Pulitzer Prize for his columns in ''The Washingt ...

, ''

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'' and ''

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'' columnist * Irving Layton, poet * David Lewis, Rhodes Scholar, mentor to Irving Layton, and leader of the federal New Democratic Party (1971-1975) *

Albert Nerenberg Albert Nerenberg (born October 13, 1962) is a Canadian independent filmmaker, actor, journalist, hypnotist, and laughologist. His films include ''Stupidity'' (2003), '' Escape to Canada'' (2005), ''Let's All Hate Toronto'' (2007), '' Laughology ...

, filmmaker and columnist * A. J. M. Smith, poet and critic * Brian Topp, candidate for leadership of the NDP, former Senior News Editor, 1982 * Lauren Liu, Member of Parliament for the New Democratic Party *Pj Vogt, host of the podcast '' Reply All''

References

External links

Official SiteDaily Publications Society
(publisher of ''The McGill Daily'')
McGill Student publications digital collection
includes 8,804 archival issues of ''The McGill Daily''. {{DEFAULTSORT:Mcgill Daily, The McGill University Student newspapers published in Quebec Newspapers published in Montreal English-language newspapers published in Quebec Publications established in 1911 Canadian University Press 1911 establishments in Quebec

History

Editorial staff

Past contributors

See also

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