The Michigan Daily

The Michigan Daily
Front page view of the October 30, 2007 edition
Type Daily
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) University of Michigan
Editor-in-chief Alexa St. John
Founded September 29, 1890 (1890-09-29)
Language English
Headquarters Ann Arbor, Michigan
Circulation 7,500
Sister newspapers The State News
Website www.michigandaily.com

The Michigan Daily is the daily student newspaper of the University of Michigan.[1] Its first edition was published on September 29, 1890. The newspaper is financially and editorially independent of the University's administration and other student groups, but shares a university building with other student publications on 420 Maynard Street, north of the Michigan Union and Huetwell Student Activities Center. In 2007, renovations to the historic building at 420 Maynard were completed, funded entirely by private donations from alumni. To dedicate the renovated building, a reunion of the staffs of The Michigan Daily, the Michiganensian yearbook, and the Gargoyle humor magazine was held on October 26–28, 2007.

The Michigan Daily is published in broadsheet form five days a week, Monday through Friday, during the Fall and Winter semesters. It is published weekly in tabloid form from May to August. Mondays contain a lengthy SportsMonday Sports section. Every other Thursday, the Arts section publishes an extended, themed issue called The B-Side. Wednesdays include a magazine, originally titled Weekend Magazine. In the fall of 2005, the magazine was renamed The Statement, a reference to former Daily Editor in Chief Tom Hayden's Port Huron Statement. The Daily is published Monday through Friday during the school year and weekly during the summer. School year circulation is 7,500 copies per day. It has over 230,000 unique visitors per month to its website.

Following the closure of The Ann Arbor News in July 2009,[2] The Michigan Daily became the only printed daily newspaper published in Washtenaw County. In 2010, a visiting former press secretary said the Daily staff had a "strong moral responsibility" to expand their coverage and try to reach a regional audience as a mainstream daily paper.

History

First issue of The Daily in 1890

In 1952, the Soviet delegate to the United Nations, F. A. Novikov, singled out the newspaper as emblematic of American warmongering. On April 12, 1955, when the success of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine was announced at the University of Michigan the Daily was the first newspaper to report it. In 1957, the Daily sent a staff member to Little Rock, Arkansas who, pretending to be a student, attended classes on the first day of integration.

Activist and politician Tom Hayden, a former Daily editor in chief who helped found Students for a Democratic Society while editing the Daily, came to personify the publication's editorial philosophy during the 1960s. The paper was the subject of national press coverage when, in 1967, it urged the legalization of marijuana, and again during the Gulf War in 1991, when it called for the reinstatement of the military draft.

The Daily was instrumental in the spread of the Paul is dead urban legend. An October 14, 1969 Daily article by Fred LaBour and John Gray, entitled "McCartney Dead; New Evidence Brought to Light", itemized various "clues", many of them of their own invention. Their "reporting" of McCartney's death is claimed by Beatleologist Andru J. Reeve to have been "the single most significant factor in the breadth of the rumor's spread."[3][4]

The first female editor-in-chief of the Daily was Harriett Woods, who later served in Missouri State government, ran for the Senate twice in the 1980s nearly beating John Danforth the first time, and led the National Women's Political Caucus through its Year of the Woman in 1992.

Daily alumni who have won a Pulitzer Prize include:

On January 28, 2014, the Daily earned national recognition for breaking news that a Michigan football player had been separated from the University for sexual misconduct.

Current Editorial Staff

The 2018 editorial staff consists of:

  • Alexa St. John, Editor-in-Chief
  • Dayton Hare, Managing Editor
  • Sophie Sherry & Riyah Basha, Managing News Editors
  • Anu Roy-Chaudhury & Ashley Zhang, Editorial Page Editors
  • Laney Byler & Mike Persak, Managing Sports Editors
  • Danielle Yacobson & Madeleine Gaudin, Managing Arts Editors
  • Brian Kuang, Statement Editor
  • Katelyn Mulcahy & Alexis Rankin, Managing Photo Editors
  • Roseanne Chao & Casey Tin, Managing Design Editors
  • Ian Harris, Managing Video Editor
  • Finn Storer & Elise Laarman, Managing Copy Editors
  • Robert Lesser & Jordan Wolff, Managing Online Editors
  • Anna Haritos & Kayla Waterman, Managing Social Media Editors
  • Ashley Tjhung & Jason Rowland, Managing Michigan in Color Editors

Notable alumni

References

  1. ↑ "Michigan Press Association list of members". Michigan Press Association. Archived from the original on April 5, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Ann Arbor News to Close in July," Archived 2009-10-16 at the Portuguese Web Archive Ann Arbor News, 23 Mar. 2009. Accessed 23 Mar. 2009.
  3. ↑ McCartney interview - barefoot: Jan 31, 1974 Archived 2009-10-01 at the Wayback Machine. rollingstone.com - Retrieved: 5 August 2007
  4. ↑ Glenn, Allen, "Paul is dead (said Fred)" Archived 2010-12-28 at the Wayback Machine., Michigan Today (November 11, 2009)
  5. ↑ University of Michigan Office of Student Publications, "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2005-04-04. Retrieved 2005-04-18.
  6. ↑ "The Virgin Islands Daily News - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
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