The Daily Princetonian

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The Daily Princetonian

Type	Daily student newspaper
Format	Color Broadsheet

Owner	Trustees of The Daily Princetonian Publishing Company
Founded	1876
Headquarters	48 University Place Princeton, NJ 08540

Website: http://www.dailyprincetonian.com

The Daily Princetonian is the daily independent student newspaper of Princeton University. It is published five days a week when classes are in session and three days a week during the University's Reading Period in January and May.

1 Organization
- 1.1 Finances
- 1.2 Staff
2 Other
3 Famous alumni
4 References
- 4.1 Notes
- 4.2 Bibliography
5 External link

[edit] Organization

[edit] Finances

The Daily Princetonian, nicknamed the 'Prince,' was the second college newspaper in America to publish daily. The paper, founded in 1876 as a biweekly publication named The Princetonian, became The Daily Princetonian in 1892 when it became a daily newspaper. In 2006, it marked its 130th year, and had a staff of about 100 students, a readership of 8,000, and an annual budget of more than $400,000.^[1]

The 'Prince' is fully independent from Princeton University. It is directed by a graduate board of trustees, consisting of former editors and business staffers. The 'Prince' supports itself financially on income from the production of the newspaper and does not receive financial support from the university or from alumni donations.

[edit] Staff

The Daily Princetonian's offices are housed at 48 University Place, Princeton, NJ, on the western edge of the university's main campus, between Lockhart Hall and Foulke Hall, just down University Place from the U-Store, the university book store. The paper's editorial staff consists entirely of Princeton students. Daily operations at the 'Prince' are directed by the Editor-in-Chief, who directs the editorial side of the paper, and the Business Manager, who directs the business and financial side of the house. The Business Manager and the Editor-in-Chief report independently to the newspaper's board of trustees so as to prevent business and editorial matters from being intermixed.

The staff is grouped into several sections, including news, sports, opinions, photography, copy editing, design, business, and web. The paper recruits new staff twice annually, at the beginning of each semester, though walk-in volunteers are welcomed at any time. New staffers are typically freshmen, but sophomores, juniors, and seniors may join the paper as well.

The current editor-in-chief is Chanakya Sethi, and the business manager, Morgan Kennedy. Kavita Saini was elected Editor-in-Chief of the 131st News Board on December 8, 2006 and Ellen Hukkelhoven was appointed the Business Manager of the Business Board. The editor-in-chief and business manager are chosen in December and appoint the remainder of their respective boards themselves. Those boards take control of the newspaper with the beginning of the second semester, in February. The editorial boards serve for two semesters. Typically, the editor-in-chief and business manager begin their service in the spring of their junior year and complete their service in the winter of their senior year. This staggered system was created in part to allow the graduating seniors time to finish their senior theses.

[edit] Other

In December 2006, Larry DuPraz, the beloved long-time employee of the newspaper who directed its publication and guided its editors from 1946 to 1987, [http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2007/01/10/news/17060.shtml died from heart disease at the age of 87.

In January 2007, the 'Prince' sparked racial controversy when it published a fictitious op-ed in its "joke edition" regarding the Jian Li case.^[2] Some Asian American groups complained for its use of offensive stereotypes.^[3]. The 'Prince' issued an emailed statement concerning their motivations and expectations for the piece, stating that they did not mean to be offensive but rather satirical.^[4]

[edit] Famous alumni

[edit] Political

William H Attwood '41, U.S. Ambassador and publisher of Newsday
Jacob D. Beam '29, U.S. Ambassador
Shelby Cullom Davis '30, U.S. Ambassador and founder of Concerned Alumni of Princeton.
Robert H. McBride '40, U.S. Ambassador
Livingston T. Merchant '26, U.S. Ambassador
Adlai Stevenson '22, one term governor of Illinois who lost two races for president against Dwight D. Eisenhower, in 1952 and 1956..^[5]
Woodrow Wilson 1879, president of Princeton University, Governor of New Jersey and President of the United States

[edit] Journalists

Joel Achenbach '82, writer for The Washington Post and author of the Post's Achenblog.
R.W. Apple, Jr., writer for The New York Times.^[6]
Hamilton Fish Armstrong '14, editor of Foreign Policy.
William H Attwood '41, U.S. Ambassador and publisher of Newsday
John N. Brooks, Jr. '42, author and staff member, The New Yorker
Peter D. Bunzel '49, op-ed page editor, Los Angeles Times
Robert Caro '57, Pulitzer Prize-winning non-fiction writer.
Bosley Crowther '28, film critic at the New York Times.
Frank Deford '61, writer for Sports Illustrated and broadcaster on U.S. radio and television.^[7]
F. Scott Fitzgerald '17, novelist and short-story author.
Barton Gellman '82, editor at The Washington Post and Pulitzer Prize-winner. A current member of the 'Prince' Board of Trustees.
Donald Kirk '59, national correspondent, Chicago Tribune
John B. Oakes '34, editorial page editor, New York Times
Don Oberdorfer '52, former writer for the Washington Post. Now a professor at Johns Hopkins University.
James Ridgeway '59, editor and writer, New Republic and Village Voice
Mark Stevens '73, film critic for New York Magazine and co-author of De Kooning (see wife Annalyn Swan).
Annalyn Swan '73, co-author of 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winningDe Kooning: An American Master, with husband Mark Stevens. A current member of the 'Prince' Board of Trustees.

[edit] Other

Edward W. Barrett '32, Dean, Columbia School of Journalism
James Douglas '20, Secretary of the Air Force
John V. Fleming GS '63, professor and long-time columnist.
James Forrestal '15, first United States Secretary of Defense.
Richard Halliburton] '21, world traveler, explorer, and writer
John Marshall Harlan II '20, Supreme Court justice.
Henry A. Laughlin '14, president, Houghton Mifflin Company
Robert McLean '13, publisher, Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
John S. Martin '23, managing editor, Time Magazine
H. Chapman Rose '28, Under Secretary of the Treasury
Nelson P. Rose '31, General Counsel of the Treasury

[edit] References

[edit] Notes

^ Aspiring writers can get their start early, The Daily Princetonian, July 15, 2002
^ Ji, Lian. "Princeton University is racist against me, I mean, non-whites", The Daily Princetonian, 2007-01-17. Retrieved on 2007-01-21.
^ Isherwood, Darryl R.. "Many see student column as no joke", The New Jersey Times, 2007-01-20. Retrieved on 2007-01-21.
^ Sethi, Chanakya. "Editors' note", The Daily Princetonian, 2007-01-19. Retrieved on 2007-01-21.
^ " AGEE AND OTHERS" Book Review by Francis Sweeney, The New York Times, September 29, 1985
^ R. W. Apple Jr., Globe-Trotter for The Times and a Journalist in Full, Dies at 71, [The New York Times]], October 5, 2006
^ Frank Deford: All in the Game, The Washington Post, April 23, 2006

[edit] Bibliography

Schmitt, Judy Piper, '76, ed (1977). The Prince Remembers: One Hundred Years of The Daily Princetonian. Princeton, N.J.: Daily Princetonian Publishing Co.
(1992) The Orange & Black in Black & White: A Century of Princeton through the Eyes of the Daily Princetonian. Princeton, N.J.: Daily Princetonian Publishing Co.