Type | Student newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
School | University of Michigan |
Editor-in-chief | Zhane Yamin, Mary Corey |
Managing editor | Cecilia Ledezma, Fiona Lacroix |
General manager | Ella Thompson |
News editor | Ji Hoon Choi, Astrid Code |
Opinion editor | Sophia Perrault, Jack Brady |
Sports editor | Zachary Edwards, Jonathan Wuchter |
Photo editor | Georgia McKay, Holly Burkhart |
Founded | September 29, 1890 |
Language | English |
Headquarters | Ann Arbor, Michigan |
Circulation | 7,500 |
ISSN | 0745-967X |
OCLC number | 9651208 |
Website | michigandaily.com |
The Michigan Daily, also known as "The Daily," is the independent student newspaper of the University of Michigan published in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Established on September 29, 1890, the newspaper is financially and editorially independent from the university.
The Michigan Daily is the only newspaper in Washtenaw County, Michigan. A print edition of the paper is published once a week during the fall and winter terms. In 2020, the paper received nearly 6 million website visits, [1] and serves over 50,000 university students and nearly 350,000 residents throughout Washtenaw County. [2]
The co-editors in chief are Zhane Yamin and Mary Corey, who were elected by the staff in December 2024. [3]
In 1952, the Soviet delegate to the United Nations, F. A. Novikov, singled out the newspaper as emblematic of American warmongering. On April 12, 1955, when the success of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine was announced at the University of Michigan the Daily was the first newspaper to report it. In 1957, the Daily sent a staff member to Little Rock, Arkansas who, pretending to be a student, attended classes on the first day of integration.
Activist and politician Tom Hayden, a former Daily editor-in-chief who helped found Students for a Democratic Society while editing the Daily, came to personify the publication's editorial philosophy during the 1960s. The paper was the subject of national press coverage in 1967, when it urged the legalization of marijuana, and again during the Gulf War in 1991, when it called for the reinstatement of the military draft.
The Daily was instrumental in the spread of the "Paul is dead" urban legend. An October 14, 1969 Daily article by Fred LaBour and John Gray, entitled "McCartney Dead; New Evidence Brought to Light", itemized various "clues", many of them of their own invention. Their "reporting" of McCartney's death is claimed by Beatleologist Andru J. Reeve to have been "the single most significant factor in the breadth of the rumor's spread." [4] [5]
The first female editor-in-chief of TheDaily was Harriett Woods, who later served in Missouri State government, ran for the Senate twice in the 1980s nearly beating John Danforth the first time, and led the National Women's Political Caucus through its Year of the Woman in 1992.
In 2007, renovations to the historic building at 420 Maynard Street were completed, funded entirely by private donations from alumni. To dedicate the renovated building, a reunion of the staffs of The Michigan Daily, the Michiganensian yearbook, and the GargoyleHumor Magazine was held from October 26 to 28, 2007.
On January 28, 2014, TheDaily earned national recognition for breaking news that a Michigan football player had been separated from the university for sexual misconduct.
The newspaper is financially and editorially independent of the university's administration and other student groups, but shares a university building with other student publications on 420 Maynard Street, north of the Michigan Union. The Daily acts as the University of Michigan's de facto journalism school, since the university does not have a journalism program or department.
The Daily publishes content every day. The newspaper is published weekly in broadsheet form during the fall and winter semesters and in tabloid form from May to August. Broadsheets contain a lengthy SportsWednesday Sports section and occasionally an extended, themed issue called The B-Side from the Arts section. They also include a magazine, originally titled Weekend Magazine. In the fall of 2005, the magazine was renamed The Statement, a reference to former Daily editor-in-chief Tom Hayden's Port Huron Statement.
The newspaper's editorial staff is led by the editor-in-chief, or two co-editors-in-chief. It is divided into the following sections: news, opinion, sports, arts, photography, web, copy, video, Statement, Michigan in Color, audience engagement, design, podcast, culture, training and inclusion, Focal Point and games. The news section has nine beats: Academics, Student Government, Administration, Business, Public Safety, Campus Life, City, Government, and Research.
Each year, the entire newspaper staff elects the main editorial leadership, which includes the editor-in-chief, who oversees all sections, and the Joshua Mitnick ’92, ’95 managing editor and digital managing editor, who report to the editor-in-chief. Each section is led by at least one managing editor and may also have least one senior or assistant editor. The editorial page editor, or editorial page editors, manage the opinion section.
The Management Desk, referred to as MDesk, is the governing body of The Daily that makes decisions affecting the entire newspaper. MDesk members include the main editorial leadership and the managing and senior editors of each section.
The Daily has strict bylaws regarding journalistic integrity and ethics. Opinion staffers cannot simultaneously be a member of news or photo staff. The newspaper also restricts news writers from expressing political views and prohibits all staffers from serving in student government.
Many columnists and editors from The Daily have gone to hold prominent positions in government, journalism, and more, working for publications like The New York Times , The Washington Post , Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal , Time magazine, and the Chicago Tribune . [6]
Alumni include playwright Arthur Miller, [7] 47th governor of New York and presidential candidate Thomas Dewey, activist Tom Hayden, investment banker Bruce Wasserstein, [6] journalist and physician Sanjay Gupta, [8] former chairman of American Airlines George A. Spater, [9] journalist and game show host Mike Wallace, [10] and former lieutenant governor of Missouri Harriett Woods. [11] [12]
Notable journalists and writers include seven Pulitzer Prize winners: Eugene Robinson, Lisa Pollak, Ann Marie Lipinski, [13] Amy Harmon, Stanford Lipsey, and Arthur Miller. They also include notable broadcast journalists like du-Pont Columbia Award winner David Schechter.
Awards won by The Daily include the 2023 National Pacemaker Award in online media, [14] 22 awards from the Society of Professional Journalists in 2020 and 2021, [15] [16] and 14 awards from the Michigan College Press Association in 2018. [17]
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