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Encyclopedia > The Daily Pennsylvanian
The Daily Pennsylvanian

Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet

Owner The Daily Pennsylvanian, Inc.
Editor Shawn Safvi
Founded 1885
Price Free
Headquarters Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Website: www.dailypennsylvanian.com


The Daily Pennsylvanian is the independent daily student newspaper of the University of Pennsylvania. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ... 1885 (MDCCCLXXXV) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Nickname: City of Brotherly Love, Philly, the Quaker City Motto: Philadelphia maneto (Let brotherly love continue) Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States State Pennsylvania County Philadelphia Founded October 27, 1682 Incorporated October 25, 1701 Mayor John F. Street (D) Area    - City 369. ... Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Area  Ranked 33rd  - Total 46,055 sq mi (119,283 km²)  - Width 280 miles (455 km)  - Length 160 miles (255 km)  - % water 2. ... This article is about the private Ivy League university in Philadelphia. ...


It is published five days a week when the university is in session by a staff of more than 250 students. During the summer months a smaller staff produces a weekly version called the Summer Pennsylvanian. The DP also publishes a weekly arts and entertainment magazine called 34th Street Magazine and a weekly newspaper for parents/alumni called The Weekly Pennsylvanian. The publication's most recent initiatives were launched in the beginning of the Fall 2006 semester: The Spin is the newspaper's new opinion blog and On the Ground features short commentary from various members of the Penn community. The new blogs join The Buzz, launched in Spring of 2006, where the paper's top sportswriters share their insight on Penn sports. Accompanying the launch of the new blogs was a full redesign of the publications's website, the first in a number of years. 34th Street Magazine is the weekly arts and entertainment magazine published by The Daily Pennsylvanian, the independent daily student newspaper of the University of Pennsylvania. ...


The newspaper was founded in 1885 and has been published daily since 1894, except for a hiatus from May 1943 to November 1945 on account of World War II. It broke away from Penn's student government in 1962 to become an independent publication. The DP incorporated in 1984 to solidify its financial and editorial independence from the university. Today the newspaper's budget is funded primarily through the sale of advertising by a student business staff. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Freedom of the press (or press freedom) is the guarantee by a government of free public press for its citizens and their associations, extended to members of news gathering organizations, and their published reporting. ...


The Daily Pennsylvanian is sometimes called Penn's "unofficial journalism department," seeing as the University of Pennsylvania has no official journalism department, and because many of its staff members go on to pursue careers in the print, broadcast, and electronic media. DP alumni can be found at a number of major daily newspapers and national magazines, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Time Magazine and Business Week. This article is about the private Ivy League university in Philadelphia. ... The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) is an international daily newspaper published by Dow Jones & Company in New York City, New York, USA, with Asian and European editions, and a worldwide daily circulation of more than 2 million as of 2006, with 931,000 paying online subscribers. ... The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ... This just IN !!!:paris hiltons new dog. ... The Philadelphia Inquirer is one of a two Knight Ridder newspaper duopoly daily for the Philadelphia area. ... (Clockwise from upper left) Time magazine covers from May 7, 1945; July 25, 1969; December 31, 1999; September 14, 2001; and April 21, 2003. ... BusinessWeek is a business magazine published by McGraw-Hill. ...


The Daily Pennsylvanian has won many of the most prestigious awards in college journalism. In 2004, it won the Pacemaker, awarded by the Associated Collegiate Press and the Newspaper Association of America Foundation, for a record-setting fourth consecutive year. It also won the award in 1990, 1997, and 1998. Several of its writers won Gold and Silver Crowns from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. It was also ranked as the "most read" college newspaper by The Princeton Review in 1990, 1997, 1998, and 2001. Most recently, the DP won the Spring 2005 Columbia Gold Crown, awarded to only eight college newspapers nationwide. In 2006, College Publisher awarded the DP first place in the category of Best Online Sports Coverage. The National Pacemaker Awards are awards for excellence in American student journalism, given annually since 1927. ... The Princeton Review (TPR) is a for-profit American educational preparation company. ... College Publisher is an online hosted college newspaper system used by hundreds of college newspapers around the United States. ...

Contents

Notable former staff members

  • Michael Brown '62 (DP Editor-in-Chief), physician; 1985 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • Rick Dunham '75 (DP columnist), national political correspondent, BusinessWeek
  • H.G. "Buzz" Bissinger '76 (DP Editorial Page Editor), author, "Friday Night Lights"; 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
  • Steve Stecklow '76 (DP reporter), staff writer, The Wall Street Journal; 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
  • John Daniszewski '79 (DP City Editor), International Editor, Associated Press
  • Steven Fried '79 (34th Street Editor), author; 1994 National Magazine Award for Public Interest
  • Richard Stevenson '81 (DP Exec. Editor), deputy Washington bureau chief, New York Times
  • Michael Bamberger '82 (DP reporter), senior writer, Sports Illustrated
  • Howard Gensler '83 (34th Street Editor), columnist, Philadelphia Daily News
  • Peter Canellos '84 (DP Exec. Editor), Washington bureau chief, Boston Globe
  • Jeffrey Goldberg '87 (DP Exec. Editor), Washington correspondent, The New Yorker; 2003 National Magazine Award for Reporting
  • Beth Reinhard '90 (DP Projects Editor), political columnist, The Miami Herald
  • Harold Ford Jr. '92 (DP columnist), former U.S. Representative from Tennessee
  • Stephen Glass '94 (DP Exec. Editor), disgraced former New Republic writer
  • Charles Ornstein '96 (DP Exec. Editor), staff writer, The Los Angeles Times; 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

Harold Ford Jr. ... A screenshot of the webpage that Glass had created to try to prove his claim that Jukt Micronics existed. ...

Recent Executive Editors

  • Shawn Safvi '08 - 123rd Board (Spring and Fall 2007)
  • Jeff Greenwald '07 - 122nd Board (Spring and Fall 2006)
  • David Burrick '06 - 121st Board (Spring and Fall 2005)
  • Chris George '05 - 120th Board (Spring and Fall 2004)
  • Amy Potter '04 - 119th Board (Spring and Fall 2003)
  • Matthew Mugmon '03 - 118th Board (Spring and Fall 2002)
  • Michael Vondriska '02 - 117th Board (Spring and Fall 2001)
  • Binyamin Appelbaum '01 - 116th Board (Spring and Fall 2000)
  • Kent Malmros '00 - 115th Board (Spring and Fall 1999)
  • Michael Mugmon '99 - 114th Board (Spring and Fall 1998)
  • Eric Goldstein '98 - 113th Board (Spring and Fall 1997)
  • Adam Mark '97 - 112th Board (Spring and Fall 1996)
  • Charles Ornstein '96 - 111th Board (Spring and Fall 1995)
  • Jordana Horn '95 - 110th Board (Spring and Fall 1994)
  • Stephen Glass '94 - 109th Board (Spring and Fall 1993)

The 123rd Board of Editors and Managers was elected in December of 2006. A screenshot of the webpage that Glass had created to try to prove his claim that Jukt Micronics existed. ...


Current Board of Editors and Managers

Business

  • Maki Puri '08 - Business Manager
  • Alex Raksin '09 - Advertising Manager
  • Joshua Kay '10 - Credit Manager
  • Yijia Gu '08 - Finance Manager
  • Jeremy Friedmar '08 - Marketing Manager
  • Becky Fletcher '09 - Production Manager

Editorial

  • Wil Hershner '08 - Managing Editor
  • Jeremy Baron '09 - Senior News Editor
  • Anne Dobson '08 - Assignments Editor
  • Neil Fanaroff '10 - Design Editor
  • Toby Hicks '09 - Photo Editor
  • Krista Hutz '09 - Sports Editor
  • Hannah Lau '09 - Senior Design Editor
  • Jared Miller '09 - City News Editor
  • Chris Poliquin '09 - Senior Photo Editor
  • Alyssa Schwenk '10 - Copy Editor
  • Andrew Scurria '09 - Senior Sports Editor
  • Zoe Tillman '09 - Editorial Page Editor
  • Mara Wishingrad '10 - Copy Editor
  • Tali Yahalom '09 - Campus News Editor

External links

  • Home Page of The Daily Pennsylvanian
  • Home Page of 34th Street Magazine (affiliate of The Daily Pennsylvanian)
  • College Papers Grow Up (Newsweek article)

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The flagship publications of the Ivy League — the Daily Pennsylvanian, Harvard Crimson, Columbia Spectator, the Brown Daily Herald, the Cornell Sun, the Daily Princetonian, the Yale Daily News and the Dartmouth — are all independent newspapers.
Often hailed as the best student newspaper in the country, the Daily Pennsylvanian is the primary source of campus and local news for students, faculty, staff and alumni of the University of Pennsylvania.
In addition to the daily version of the paper, a separate staff compiles the Weekly Pennsylvanian which is mailed to thousands of parents, faculty and alumni.
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