The Daily Northwestern

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The Daily Northwestern
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Tabloid
Owner	Students Publishing Company
Founded	1881
Headquarters	Evanston, Illinois
ISSN	1523-5033
Website: www.dailynorthwestern.com

The Daily Northwestern is a student newspaper at Northwestern University that is published on weekdays during the academic year. Established in 1881 and published in Evanston, Illinois, it is run entirely by undergraduates, many of whom are students at Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism.

The Daily is widely considered one of the best college newspapers in the country, a frequent winner of the Columbia Scholastic Press Association and the coveted Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker award. Its staffers are almost solely responsible for Medill's ongoing run of 17 consecutive first or second place finishes in the collegiate William Randolph Hearst Foundation awards program, dating back to 1988. Its former staffers are leaders in the world of journalism; many have won awards such as the Pulitzer Prize.

Although it serves the Northwestern community, The Daily is unaffiliated with the university and is supported entirely by advertisers. It is owned by the Students Publishing Company. Current circulation is in excess of 7,500 as The Daily Northwestern is the only daily publication for both Northwestern University and the city of Evanston, Illinois.

The paper's offices are located on the third floor of the Norris University Center on Northwestern's Evanston campus.

Contents 1 Early history 2 Notable alumni 3 In popular culture 4 External links

[edit] Early history

The Daily is the descendant of two earlier publications, the Tripod and Vidette, the oldest of which began publishing in 1871 alongside or ahead of the earliest college newspapers in the United States. In 1881, in what is considered the newspaper's founding moment, the papers merged into The Northwestern and gradually began shedding their literary journal roots.

Publication was ramped up to a daily by the early 1910s. In 1919, the newspaper became independent of the university.

[edit] Notable alumni

• Alan Abrahamson - L.A. Times sports columnist
• J.A. Adande - L.A. Times sports columnist
• Michael John Anderson - editor, New York Times Book Review
• Kim Barker, foreign correspondent, Chicago Tribune
• Joan Wagner Beck - late columnist, Chicago Tribune
• Saul Bellow (published first short story in The Daily) - Nobel Prize-winning novelist
• Stephan Benzkofer - Chicago Tribune news editor
• Richard Boudreaux - L.A. Times Rome correspondent
• Christine Brennan - USA Today sports columnist
• Elisabeth Bumiller - New York Times White House correspondent
• Andrea Cohen - Indianapolis Star Sports Writer
• Rance Crain - founder of Crain Communications Inc.
• Lester Crystal - executive producer, News Hour with Jim Leher
• R. Bruce Dold - Pulitzer Prize-winning editorialist, Chicago Tribune
• John J. Edwards III - Wall Street Journal news editor
• Jonathan Eig - Wall Street Journal senior special writer and author
• Al From - Democratic Leadership Council CEO
• Jack W. Fuller - former Tribune Co. president and Pulitzer Prize winner
• Glenn Gaslin - novelist
• Georgie Ann Geyer - editor, foreign correspondent, Chicago Daily News, L.A. Times
• Bob Greene - disgraced former columnist, Chicago Tribune; author
• Elaine Helm - The Herald (Everett) new media editor
• Donal Henahan - Pulitzer Prize winner
• Stephen Hunter - Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic, Washington Post
• Maura Johnston - editor, Idolator
• Walter Kerr - Famed Pulitzer Prize-winning theater critic for the New York Times, namesake of a Broadway theater
• Vincent Laforet - Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer
• Robert Leighton - The New Yorker cartoonist
• Dick Longworth - Chicago Tribune, United Press International
• Jeffrey R. Lyon - Pulitzer Prize winner
• Edgar May - Pulitzer Prize winner
• Garry Marshall - director, producer, famous for Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, and Mork and Mindy.
• Robert E. Mulholland - former president, National Broadcasting Company
• Brent Musburger - ABC sportscaster
• John Musker - writer and director of Disney's The Little Mermaid and Aladdin
• Charles F. Neubauer - Pulitzer Prize winner
• Ralph Otwell - former Chicago Sun-Times editor
• Susan Page - USA Today White House correspondent
• Daniel Roth - Conde Nast business writer, formerly of Fortune magazine
• Sidney Sheldon - novelist
• Kevin F. Sherry - www.badsweaterguy.com
• David Sterrett - North County Times staff writer
• Richard Stolley - founding editor of People magazine
• Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan - staff writer, Wall Street Journal
• Shira Ransom Toeplitz - The Hotline staff writer
• Steven Twomey - Pulitzer Prize winner
• John Walter - Atlanta Journal-Constitution managing editor
• Michael Wilbon - Washington Post sports columnist and host of Pardon the Interruption
• Lois Wille - Pulitzer Prize winner

[edit] In popular culture

• In the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada, Andrea Sachs (Anne Hathaway) was the editor in chief of The Daily Northwestern.

[edit] External links

• The Daily Northwestern
• NU Library's 125th Anniversary Exhibit, 2006 [1]
• Article about NU Library's 125th Anniversary Exhibit, 2006

[2]

• Winter 2000 Northwestern Alumni Magazine Story[3]

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