Editing Yale Daily News

{{Short description|Student newspaper of Yale University}}
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{{Infobox newspaper
| name = The Yale Daily News
| logo = YDN Nameplate Big.gif
| logo_caption = Nameplate used since 1881
| image = [[File:Week_of_April_15_2022_Yale_Daily_News.png|250px|border]]
| caption = ''Yale Daily News'', April 15, 2022
| type = Daily [[student newspaper]]
| format = [[Broadsheet]]
| foundation = {{start date and age|1878|1|28}}
| school = [[Yale University]]
| owners = The Yale Daily News Publishing Company
| chiefeditor = Ariela Lopez
| publisher = Alyssa Chang
| maneditor = Carter Cashen, Lily Belle Poling, Ethan Wolin
| headquarters = 202 York Street, [[New Haven, Connecticut]] 06511
| publishing_city = [[New Haven, Connecticut]]
| ISSN = 0890-2240
| website = {{URL|https://yaledailynews.com}}
| free = {{URL|https://ydnhistorical.library.yale.edu/}}
}}
The '''''Yale Daily News''''' is an independent [[student newspaper]] published by [[Yale University]] students in [[New Haven, Connecticut]], since January 28, 1878.

== Description ==
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 Connecticut|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, Connecticut|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 social media.

The ''YDN'' also publishes a daily opinion section, a Friday "WKND" section, and special issues for the incoming freshman class, Yale's Class Day and Commencement, [[Harvard–Yale football rivalry|The Game]] against [[Harvard Crimson football|Harvard University]], and 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.

In addition to the newspaper, the Yale Daily News Publishing Company publishes the ''[https://yaledailynews.com/blog/category/mag/ Yale Daily News Magazine]'', video news via [https://yaledailynews.com/blog/category/multimedia/ytv/ YTV], and numerous podcast series.

==History==
===19th century===
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."<ref>{{Cite book |title=Yale Daily News at 125: An Anniversary Retrospective |publisher=The OCD Foundation |year=2003 |location=New Haven, CT |pages=112}}</ref>

===20th century===
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 Bulldogs football|Yale]] quarterback Brian Dowling. The strip which was reborn as ''[[Doonesbury]]'' and syndicated in newspapers nationwide for decades.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nopany |first=Urvi |date=October 5, 2010 |title=Doonesbury through the ages |url=https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2010/10/05/doonesbury-through-the-ages/ |website=yaledailynews.com}}</ref>

During the [[student strike of 1970]], in response to the U.S. expansion of the [[Vietnam War]] into [[Cambodian campaign|Cambodia]], the ''Yale Daily News'' announced that it did not support involvement in the student strikes occurring across the nation,<ref name="Charlton">{{cite news |last1=Charlton |first1=Linda |title=Antiwar Strike Plans in the Colleges Pick Up Student and Faculty Support |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/05/05/archives/antiwax-strike-plans-in-the-colleges-pick-up-student-and-faculty.html |newspaper=New York Times |date=5 May 1970 |access-date=10 April 2019}}</ref>  making it the only [[Ivy League]] college newspaper to disagree with the protests.<ref name="Charlton" />  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 N. Mitchell|John Mitchell]] and the other hyenas of the right.'"<ref name="Charlton" />

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.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Yale Daily News Historical Archives |url=https://web.library.yale.edu/digital-collections/yale-daily-news-historical-archive}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Yale Daily News at 125: An Anniversary Retrospective |publisher=The OCD Foundation Inc. |year=2003 |location=New Haven, CT |pages=150–152}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Yale Daily News at 125: An Anniversary Retrospective |publisher=The OCD Foundation |year=2003 |location=New Haven, CT |pages=3–4}}</ref>

===21st century===

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 United States presidential election|2008 Presidential Election]], was featured in the [[Poynter Institute]] book: ''President Obama Election 2008: Collection of Newspaper Front Pages by the Poynter Institute''.<ref>{{cite book |last=New |first=The |title=President Obama Election 2008: Collection of Newspaper Front Pages by the Poynter Institute (9780740784804): The Poynter Institute: Books |isbn=978-0740784804 |date=December 16, 2008 |publisher=Andrews McMeel }}</ref>

In 2009, the ''Yale Daily News'' won the [[Associated Collegiate Press]] Newspaper Pacemaker Award.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.studentpress.org/acp/winners/npm09.html |title=ACP – Contest Winners |publisher=Studentpress.org |access-date=2011-03-21}}</ref> 

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.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Korn |first1=Harrison |last2=Ross |first2=Colin |display-authors=etal |date=September 10, 2009 |title=Graduate Student Reported Missing |newspaper=Yale Daily News |url=https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2009/09/09/graduate-student-reported-missing/}}</ref>  

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.<ref>{{cite web |author=Peter Vidani |url=http://202york.yaledailynews.com/ |title=202 York Street |publisher=202york.yaledailynews.com |access-date=2011-03-21}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite web |date=January–February 2020 |title=Women's soccer coach leaves amid allegations |url=https://yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/5034-women-s-soccer-coach-leaves-amid-allegations |website=yalealumnimagazine.org}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Beck |first1=Melinda |title="The YDN, Then and Now" |url=https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2019/05/25/beck-77-the-ydn-then-and-now/ |website=YaleDailyNews.com|date=May 25, 2019 }}</ref>

The Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University has an extensive Yale Daily News Historical Archive, containing digitized versions of printed issues from 1878 through 2020.  Digitization of issues from 2021 through the present is currently underway. The collection is indexed, searchable and available to the public.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Yale Daily News Historical Archive |url=https://web.library.yale.edu/digital-collections/yale-daily-news-historical-archive }}</ref>

=== Contested claim ===
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",<ref>[http://www.thecrimson.com/about/ Crimson ABOUT page]</ref> but it was founded in 1873 as a [[fortnight]]ly publication called ''The Magenta'' and did not appear daily until 1883.<ref>[http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1946/4/9/colorful-crimson-history-began-with-off-color/ Colorful Crimson History Began with Off-Color Magenta]</ref> The ''News'' ceased publishing briefly during [[World War I]] and [[World War II]] after editors volunteered for military service.

== Alumni ==
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 (magazine)|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.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wilner |first=Isiah |title=The Man Time Forgot: A Tale of Genius, Betrayal and the Creation of Time Magazine |publisher=HarperCollins |year=2006 |location=New York, NY}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Leadership |url=https://www.propublica.org/leadership/ |website=propublication.org}}</ref>

=== Politics ===
* [[Potter Stewart]], former Supreme Court associate justice
* [[Brett Kavanaugh]], Supreme Court associate Justice<ref>{{cite web |last1=Yale Daily News |title=Decades before nomination Brett Kavanaugh wrote about college sports |url=http://features.yaledailynews.com/blog/2018/07/10/decades-before-nomination-brett-kavanaugh-wrote-about-college-sports/ |website=Yale Daily News |date=July 10, 2018 |publisher=The Yale Daily News Publishing Company |access-date=10 July 2018}}</ref>
* [[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 ===
* [[Pete Axthelm]], sportswriter
* [[Michael Barbaro]], host of ''[[The Daily (podcast)|The Daily]]'' by ''The New York Times''
* [[Ellen Barry (Journalist)|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)|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 (journalist)|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 (book)|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 (magazine)|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''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/25/business/media/25adco.html?_r=2&scp=6&sq=joanne%20lipman&st=cse |work=The New York Times |title=Condé Nast Plans Business Magazine and Web Site |first=Louise |last=Story |date=August 25, 2005}}</ref>
* [[Adam Liptak]], supreme court correspondent for ''The New York Times''
* [[Henry Luce]], co-founder of ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''
* [[Dana Milbank]], columnist and former White House correspondent for ''The Washington Post''
* [https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/martine-powers/ Martine Powers], senior audio producer and host of ''[https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/ Post Reports]'' by ''The Washington Post''
* [[Philip Rucker]], White House bureau chief for The Washington Post
* [[Robert B. Semple Jr.|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]]''
* [[Jack Schlossberg]], American writer
* [[John Tierney (journalist)|John Tierney]], columnist for ''The New York Times''
* [[Calvin Trillin]], columnist and humorist
* [[Jacob Weisberg]], editor of ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]''
* [https://www.nytimes.com/by/vivian-yee Vivian Yee], Cairo bureau chief for ''The New York Times''

=== Other ===
* [[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<ref name=uot>{{cite web |url=http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/hobson.bio.html |title=Thayer Hobson, 1897–1967 |publisher=[[University of Texas]] |access-date=2008-06-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060901122154/http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/hobson.bio.html |archive-date=September 1, 2006}}</ref>
* [[Eli Jacobs]], Wall Street investor.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Frank |first1=Peter H. |last2=Rosenthal |first2=David |title=Orioles are sold: $70 million; Jacobs is quiet deal-maker |newspaper=The Baltimore Sun |date=December 7, 1988}}</ref>
* [[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 ==
* The characters [[Rory Gilmore]] and [[Paris Geller]] have both served as editors of the ''Yale Daily News'' on [[The CW Television Network|the CW]] TV show ''[[Gilmore Girls]]''.
* In ''[[The Great Gatsby]]'', narrator and protagonist [[Nick Carraway]] says that he wrote a series of editorials for the paper while in college.<ref>"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]]</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.yaledailynews.com/ Official website]
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/ydnmultimedia Yale TV Main Page website]
* [http://images.library.yale.edu/ydn Historical archive] at Yale University Library

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