The New Journal

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The New Journal
Categories Student publication
FrequencyFive per year
Founder Daniel Yergin and Peter Yeager
Year founded1967
CompanyThe New Journal at Yale, Inc.
CountryUnited States
Based inNew Haven, Connecticut
LanguageEnglish
Website www.thenewjournalatyale.com
ISSN 0028-6001

The New Journal is a magazine at Yale University that publishes creative nonfiction about Yale and New Haven. Inspired by New Journalism writers like Tom Wolfe and Gay Talese, the student-run publication was established by Daniel Yergin and Peter Yeager in 1967 to publish investigative pieces and in-depth interviews. [1] [2] It publishes five issues per year. [3] The magazine is distributed free of charge at Yale and in New Haven and was among the first university publications not to charge a subscription fee. [1] [4]

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