The Yale Daily News is the nation’s oldest college newspaper and serves the community of students, faculty, staff, and alumni of Yale University. The News publishes Monday through Friday during the academic year and is financially and editorially independent. The News also produces a weekly Friday supplement called WKND, the annual Yale-Harvard Game Day issue, and several special issues each year in partnership with Yale’s cultural centers and affiliated student groups.
The News features extensive local news coverage, national and international headlines, New York exclusives, celebrity gossip, sports, classified ads and a strong opinion section. The newspaper has won numerous awards for its journalism and photography. A distinguished group of columnists and opinion formers contribute to the News.
Many of the Daily News’s past editors, writers and contributors have gone on to prominent careers in journalism and public life, including William F. Buckley, Lan Samantha Chang, John Hersey, Joseph Lieberman, Sargent Shriver, Paul Steiger, and Strobe Talbott. The Yale Daily News has been at the forefront of technological change in journalism and has influenced other tabloids. In addition to its traditional print edition, the Daily News now provides a variety of online and mobile services for its readers, including an extensive video news service and a digital replica of its printed edition.
The Daily News has a long history of breaking major stories and developing original content in the arts, entertainment, science, politics, and business. The newspaper is known for its provocative and often controversial tone, its bold presentation of stories and photographs, and its emphasis on investigative reporting. The New York Times and the Boston Globe compete with the Daily News for the title of most read metropolitan daily newspaper in the United States.
In 1919 the Daily News was founded in New York City as the Illustrated Daily News by Joseph Medill Patterson and became the first tabloid to be successful in the United States. It attracted readers by sensational crime and scandal stories, lurid photographs, and cartoons. The newspaper grew to a circulation of over 2 million in 1947, and in that same year it established its television station, WPIX-TV, which still operates from the original Daily News building on 42nd Street.
The Daily News also produces a number of other publications and websites, including IPO Daily NewsTM, which features summaries of patent and trademark appeals decisions issued by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit the day after those opinions are published as well as wire service stories of selected patent and trademark cases. The News also owns and operates the website Slate, which is a general-interest online magazine.