 Yale Daily News, September 18, 2009 | |
| Type | Daily student newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | The Yale Daily News Publishing Company |
| Publisher | Richard Chen |
| President | Tristan Hernandez |
| Managing editor | Ellie Park, Ben Raab, Yurii Stasiuk |
| Founded | January 28, 1878 |
| Headquarters | 202 York Street New Haven, Connecticut 06511 |
| Website | yaledailynews |
The Yale Daily News is an independent student newspaper published by Yale University students in New Haven, Connecticut, since January 28, 1878.
Financially and editorially independent of Yale University since its founding, the Yale Daily News is published online by a student editorial and business staff five days a week, Monday through Friday, during Yale's academic year. Although the paper historically produced a daily print edition, it transitioned during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 to a weekly print schedule and now prints only a Friday paper. Called the YDN, or sometimes the News, the Daily News, or the Daily Yalie, the newspaper and the website are produced in Briton Hadden Memorial Building at 202 York Street in New Haven and printed off-site at Valley Publishing Company in Derby, Connecticut.
Each day, reporters, mainly freshmen and sophomores, cover the university, the city of New Haven and sometimes the state of Connecticut. Besides updating its website with new stories five days a week, the YDN sends out daily, weekend and breaking -news newsletters and posts its contents to Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and YouTube. Its robust multimedia platforms include YTV, which produces video news, features and commentary, and numerous podcast series.
The YDN also publishes a daily opinion section, a Friday "WKND" section and special issues focusing on the experiences of Latinx, Black and Asian students in October, February and April, respectively.
Staff members generally serve as editors on the managing board during their junior year. A single chairman led the editorial and business sides of the News until 1970. Today, the editor-in-chief also serves as president of the Yale Daily News Publishing Company, while the publisher oversees business operations. An editorial board, independent of the newsroom, publishes a monthly column
In addition to the newspaper, the Yale Daily News Publishing Company produces the Yale Daily News Magazine and special newspaper issues for the incoming freshman class, Yale's Class Day and Commencement and The Game against Harvard University.
In its inaugural edition on January 28, 1878, 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." [1]
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.
From 1968 to 1970, the YDN published a cartoon strip called Bull Tales by Garry Trudeau '70, parodying the exploits of Yale quarterback Brian Dowling. The strip which was reborn as Doonesbury and syndicated in newspapers nationwide for decades. [2]
During the student strike of 1970, in response to the U.S. expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia, the Yale Daily News announced that it did not support involvement in the student strikes occurring across the nation, [3] making it the only Ivy League college newspaper to disagree with the protests. [3] In response, fifty pro-strike demonstrators visited the News offices and called the editors 'fascist pigs'. In its editorial, the Yale Daily News warned that "radical rhetoric and sporadic violence, such as marked the weekend demonstrations at Yale, only added fuel to the 'demagoguery of Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew, John Mitchell and the other hyenas of the right.'" [3]
When women first arrived at Yale College in the fall of 1969, the YDN was one of Yale's first meaningfully coed student organizations. Within weeks, the newspaper published bylined articles by five women—Dori Zaleznik, Shelley Fisher (now Fishkin), Martha Wesson, Linda Temoshok (now Lydia Temoshok), and Ruth Falk. That first year, Fisher and Zaleznik were elected to the 1971 Editorial Board and Falk and Temoshok to the 1972 Editorial Board. [4]
The YDN was also among the first student organizations to elect women to leadership roles. Zaleznik was elected Associate Executive Editor in 1970. Amy Oshinsky became the first female publisher in 1975. Anne ("Andy") Perkins was elected the first female editor-in-chief in 1979. [5]
The News survived for a century solely on income generated by subscriptions and ad sales. But by the mid 1970s, its Gothic building on the Yale campus had fallen into disrepair and help was needed to maintain it.
In 1978, a group of News alumni including Eric Nestler '76, Jonathan Rose '63, Jim Ottaway '60, and Joseph Leiberman '64 created the Oldest College Daily Foundation to solicit philanthropic support for building repairs and capital expenditures. [6]
The YDN has won numerous awards for its design and editorial content. Its front page design for November 5, 2008, the day after Barack Obama's victory in the 2008 Presidential Election, was featured in the Poynter Institute book: President Obama Election 2008: Collection of Newspaper Front Pages by the Poynter Institute. [7]
In 2009, the Yale Daily News won the Associated Collegiate Press Newspaper Pacemaker Award. [8]
On September 10 of that year, the News broke the news of the murder of Annie Le, a Yale graduate student reported missing and subsequently found murdered in the basement of her laboratory. [9]
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. [10]
On November 21, 2019, the News published an article detailing allegations of impropriety and sexual misconduct against Brendan Faherty, the Yale women's soccer coach, by former players when he was coach of the women's soccer team at the University of New Haven from 2002 to 2009. Yale announced Faherty's departure the same day. [11]
In 2018, the Foundation changed its name to the Yale Daily News Foundation in 2018 and now provides financial support to News staffers who would otherwise need to take paying jobs during the academic year and staffers taking low-paying journalism jobs during the summer. The YDN student staff continues to be responsible for all editorial and business decisions. [12]
The Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University has an extensive Yale Daily News Historical Archive, containing digitized versions of printed issues from 1878 through 1995. Digitization of issues from 1996 through the present is currently underway. The collection is indexed, searchable and available to the public. [13]
The News, founded in 1878, calls itself the "oldest college daily" in the United States, a claim contested by at least six other college student newspapers.
The News serves as a training ground for journalists at Yale, and has produced a steady stream of professional reporters who work at newspapers, magazines and websites including The Washington Post , The Wall Street Journal , The New York Times , The Los Angeles Times , Time , Newsweek , The New Yorker, The Economist , ProPublica and Politico.
Yale Daily News alumni have also pioneered new forms of American journalism. Shortly after graduating from Yale, classmates and rivals Briton Hadden '20 and Henry Luce '20 co-founded Time Inc. and its magazine empire. [16] In 2010, Paul Steiger '64, the longtime managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, co-founded ProPublica Inc., a nonprofit online newsroom that has won six Pulitzer Prizes for investigative journalism. [17]
Doonesbury is a comic strip by American cartoonist Garry Trudeau that chronicles the adventures and lives of an array of characters of various ages, professions, and backgrounds, from the President of the United States to the title character, Michael Doonesbury, who has progressed over the decades from a college student to a youthful senior citizen.
Garretson Beekman Trudeau is an American cartoonist, best known for creating the Doonesbury comic strip.
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The Hartford Courant is the largest daily newspaper in the U.S. state of Connecticut, and is advertised as the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States. A morning newspaper serving most of the state north of New Haven and east of Waterbury, its headquarters on Broad Street in Hartford, Connecticut was a short walk from the state capitol. It reports regional news with a chain of bureaus in smaller cities and a series of local editions. It also operates CTNow, a free local weekly newspaper and website.
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The Daily Cardinal is a student newspaper that serves the University of Wisconsin–Madison community. One of the oldest student newspapers in the country, it began publishing on Monday, April 4, 1892. The newspaper is financially and editorially independent of the university.
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Davenport College is one of the fourteen residential colleges of Yale University. Its buildings were completed in 1933 mainly in the Georgian style but with a gothic façade along York Street. The college was named for John Davenport, who founded Yale's home city of New Haven, Connecticut. An extensive renovation of the college's buildings occurred during the 2004–2005 academic year as part of Yale's comprehensive building renovation project. Davenport College has an unofficial rivalry with adjoining Pierson College.
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