The Yale Daily News, "the oldest college daily," has been published by Yale University students in New Haven, Connecticut since January 28, 1878. "The innovation which we begin by this morning's issue is justified by the dullness of the time and the demand for news among us," the paper's first editors wrote.

Completely financially and editorially independent of Yale since its founding, the paper is published by a student edit and business staff five days a week, Monday through Friday, during Yale's academic year. Called the YDN (or sometimes "the Yale News," "the News" or "the Daily News") by most students on campus, the paper is produced in the Briton Hadden Memorial Building at 202 York Street in New Haven and printed offsite. Each day reporters, mainly freshmen and sophomores, cover the University and the city of New Haven. An expanded sports section and "Scene", an arts and living section, are published on Monday and Friday, respectively.

Staff members are elected as editors on the managing board during their junior year. A single chairman led the News until 1970. Today, the editor in chief and publisher act as co-presidents of the paper. The "News's View," a staff editorial, represents the position of the majority of the editorial board.

The paper version of the News is distributed for free throughout Yale's campus and the city of New Haven. It is also published online.

In addition to the newspaper, the Yale Daily News Publishing Company also produces a monthly Yale Daily News Magazine; special issues of the newspaper before the last home game of the football season and the first home Ivy League basketball game; The Politic, a nonpartisan magazine covering political issues; and the Yale Daily News Insiders Guide to the Colleges.

Alumni

Political

• William F. Buckley, Jr., founder of National Review
• Lanny Davis, advisor to President Clinton and author
• David Gergen, advisor to four Presidents and U.S. News and World Report editor-at-large
• Joseph Lieberman, U.S. Senator and 2000 vice-presidential nomineee
• Sargent Shriver, first Peace Corps director
• Garry Trudeau, cartoonist and creator of Doonesbury, which first appeared in the News' pages as Bull Tales

Journalists

• Christopher Buckley, novelist and writer
• Henry Luce and Briton Hadden, co-founders of TIME magazine
• James Ottaway, the senior vice president of Dow Jones & Co
• Robert Semple, a member of the New York Times editorial board
• Paul Steiger, managing editor of the Wall Street Journal
• Calvin Trillin, columnist and humorist
• Jacob Weisberg, editor of Slate

External links

• Yale Daily News Online (http://www.yaledailynews.com)
• Apple Profiles in Success: Yale Daily News (http://www.apple.com/education/profiles/yale/)
• 125th Anniversary Exhibit (http://www.yaledailynews.com/digiexhibit/index.htm)