Student newspaper of Yale University
The Yale Daily News
Yale Daily News
, September 18, 2009
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Type
| Daily
student newspaper
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Format
| Broadsheet
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Owner(s)
| The Yale Daily News Publishing Company
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Publisher
| Richard Chen
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President
| Tristan Hernandez
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Managing editor
| Yurii Stasiuk, Ben Raab, Ellie Park
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Founded
| January 28, 1878
; 146 years ago
(
1878-01-28
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Headquarters
| 202 York Street
New Haven, Connecticut
06511
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Website
| yaledailynews
.com
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The
Yale Daily News
is an independent
student newspaper
published by
Yale University
students in
New Haven, Connecticut
, since January 28, 1878.
Description
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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
.
History
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19th century
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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]
20th century
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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]
21st century
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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]
Contested claim
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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.
- Columbia Daily Spectator
, founded one year earlier than the
YDN
in 1877, calls itself the second-oldest college daily, but was not independent until the 1960s.
- The Cornell Daily Sun
, launched in 1880, calls itself the "oldest independent college newspaper", notwithstanding the
YDN
'
s independence since its founding two years earlier.
- The Daily Californian
at the
University of California, Berkeley
, was founded in 1871 but did not achieve independence until 1971.
- The Daily Targum
at
Rutgers University
was founded in 1869 but was published initially as a monthly newspaper and did not gain independence from the University until 1980.
- The Dartmouth
at
Dartmouth College
, 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.
- The Harvard Crimson
calls itself "the oldest continuously published college daily",
[14]
but it was founded in 1873 as a
fortnightly
publication called
The Magenta
and did not appear daily until 1883.
[15]
The
News
ceased publishing briefly during
World War I
and
World War II
after editors volunteered for military service.
Alumni
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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]
Politics
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- Potter Stewart
, former Supreme Court associate justice
- Brett Kavanaugh
, Supreme Court associate Justice
[18]
- Joseph Lieberman
, former US Senator from Connecticut, 2000 Vice Presidential nominee and 2004 presidential candidate
- Steve Mnuchin
,
Secretary of the Treasury
under former President Donald Trump
- Samantha Power
, former
United States Ambassador to the United Nations
, USAID Director
- Strobe Talbott
, president of the Brookings Institution and former Deputy Secretary of State under President Clinton
- Jake Sullivan
, national security advisor to President Joseph Biden
- William L. Borden
, executive director of United States Congress Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, 1949?53
- Lanny Davis
, advisor to President Clinton, author and public relations expert
- David Gergen
, advisor to four presidents and
U.S. News & World Report
editor-at-large
- Reed Hundt
, former FCC chairman
- Robert D. Orr
, former governor of Indiana
- David A. Pepper
, Ohio politician
- Andrew Romanoff
, former Colorado Speaker of the House, candidate for Democratic nomination to US Senate
- Sargent Shriver
, first
Peace Corps
director
- Stuart Symington
, former US senator from Missouri
- Garry Trudeau
, cartoonist and creator of
Doonesbury
, which first appeared in the
News'
pages as
Bull Tales
Journalism
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- Pete Axthelm
, sportswriter
- Michael Barbaro
, host of
The Daily
by
The New York Times
- Ellen Barry
, Pulitzer Prize?winning Moscow correspondent,
The New York Times
- Alex Berenson
, novelist and former business reporter for
The New York Times
- Christopher Buckley
, novelist and writer
- William F. Buckley Jr.
, founder of
National Review
- Meghan Clyne
is a Washington, D.C.-based writer, recently for
The Weekly Standard
- Henry S.F. Cooper
, a
New Yorker
journalist and author
- Michael Crowley
, senior editor,
New Republic
- Charles Duhigg
, business reporter for
The New York Times
- Charles Forelle
, European correspondent for
The Wall Street Journal
- Dan Froomkin
, Washington Editor of TheIntercept.com
- Zack O'Malley Greenburg
,
Forbes
staff writer and author of
Jay-Z
biography
Empire State of Mind
- Lloyd Grove
, freelance writer, former gossip columnist for the
New York Daily News
and
The Washington Post
- Briton Hadden
, co-founder of
Time
- R. Thomas Herman
, reporter and tax columnist for
The Wall Street Journal
- John Hersey
, Pulitzer Prize?winning journalist and author
- Robert G. Kaiser
, associate editor of
The Washington Post
- Matthew Kaminski
, Editor-in-Chief of
Politico
, former editor at
The Wall Street Journal
- David Leonhardt
, Pulitzer Prize?winning economics columnist,
The New York Times
- Joanne Lipman
, founding Editor-in-Chief of
Conde Nast Portfolio
magazine and former Deputy Managing Editor of
The Wall Street Journal
.
[19]
- Adam Liptak
, supreme court correspondent for
The New York Times
- Henry Luce
, co-founder of
Time
- Dana Milbank
, columnist and former White House correspondent for
The Washington Post
- Martine Powers
, senior audio producer and host of
Post Reports
by
The Washington Post
- Philip Rucker
, White House bureau chief for The Washington Post
- Robert Semple
, Pulitzer Prize winner and former member of
The New York Times
editorial board
- Paul Steiger
, Emeritus Editor-in-Chief of "
ProPublica
," former managing editor of
The Wall Street Journal
- John Tierney
, columnist for
The New York Times
- Calvin Trillin
, columnist and humorist
- Jacob Weisberg
, editor of
Slate
- Vivian Yee
, Cairo bureau chief for
The New York Times
Other
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- Kingman Brewster
, former president of Yale University and ambassador to the
Court of St. James's
- Lan Samantha Chang
, director of
Iowa Writers' Workshop
- Theo Epstein
,
Chicago Cubs
general manager
- Thayer Hobson
, chairman of William Morrow and Company
[20]
- Eli Jacobs
, Wall Street investor.
[21]
- Ted Landsmark
, educator and attorney
- Paul Mellon
, philanthropist
- John E. Pepper Jr.
, former chairman of the Walt Disney Company
- Gaddis Smith
, professor emeritus of history at Yale
- Lyman Spitzer
, theoretical physicist
- Daniel Yergin
, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and economic researcher
In popular culture
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References
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- ^
Yale Daily News at 125: An Anniversary Retrospective
. New Haven, CT: The OCD Foundation. 2003. p. 112.
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Nopany, Urvi (October 5, 2010).
"Doonesbury through the ages"
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yaledailynews.com
.
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a
b
c
Charlton, Linda (May 5, 1970).
"Antiwar Strike Plans in the Colleges Pick Up Student and Faculty Support"
.
New York Times
. Retrieved
April 10,
2019
.
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"The Yale Daily News Historical Archives"
.
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Yale Daily News at 125: An Anniversary Retrospective
. New Haven, CT: The OCD Foundation Inc. 2003. pp. 150?152.
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Yale Daily News at 125: An Anniversary Retrospective
. New Haven, CT: The OCD Foundation. 2003. pp. 3?4.
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New, The (December 16, 2008).
President Obama Election 2008: Collection of Newspaper Front Pages by the Poynter Institute (9780740784804): The Poynter Institute: Books
. Andrews McMeel.
ISBN
978-0740784804
.
- ^
"ACP ? Contest Winners"
. Studentpress.org
. Retrieved
March 21,
2011
.
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Korn, Harrison; Ross, Colin; et al. (September 10, 2009).
"Graduate Student Reported Missing"
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Yale Daily News
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Peter Vidani.
"202 York Street"
. 202york.yaledailynews.com
. Retrieved
March 21,
2011
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"Women's soccer coach leaves amid allegations"
.
yalealumnimagazine.org
. January?February 2020.
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Beck, Melinda (May 25, 2019).
"
"The YDN, Then and Now"
"
.
YaleDailyNews.com
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"Yale Daily News Historical Archive"
.
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Crimson ABOUT page
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Colorful Crimson History Began with Off-Color Magenta
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Wilner, Isiah (2006).
The Man Time Forgot: A Tale of Genius, Betrayal and the Creation of Time Magazine
. New York, NY: HarperCollins.
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"Leadership"
.
propublication.org
.
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Yale Daily News (July 10, 2018).
"Decades before nomination Brett Kavanaugh wrote about college sports"
.
Yale Daily News
. The Yale Daily News Publishing Company
. Retrieved
July 10,
2018
.
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Story, Louise (August 25, 2005).
"Conde Nast Plans Business Magazine and Web Site"
.
The New York Times
.
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"Thayer Hobson, 1897?1967"
.
University of Texas
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the original
on September 1, 2006
. Retrieved
June 24,
2008
.
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Frank, Peter H.; Rosenthal, David (December 7, 1988). "Orioles are sold: $70 million; Jacobs is quiet deal-maker".
The Baltimore Sun
.
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"I was rather literary in college ? one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News'" ?
Nick Carraway
in
The Great Gatsby
by
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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