The Daily Pennsylvanian Explained

The Daily Pennsylvanian
Type:Weekly student newspaper
Format:Broadsheet
Owners:The Daily Pennsylvanian, Inc.
President:Molly Cohen
Chiefeditor:Jared Mitovich
Maneditor:Anna Vazhaeparambil
Newseditor:Katie Bartlett, Ben Binday
Opeditor:Yomi Abdi
Sportseditor:Walker Carnathan, Vivian Yao
Photoeditor:Abhiram Juvvadi
Custom Label:Business manager
Custom:Zain Qureshi
Foundation: (as The Pennsylvanian)
Headquarters:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Website:thedp.com
Free:library.upenn.edu
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34th Street Magazine
Chiefeditor:Natalia Castillo
Type:Monthly magazine
Owners:The Daily Pennsylvanian, Inc.
Format:Tabloid
Website:34st.com
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Under the Button
Screenshot Size:250px
Screenshot Alt:Under The Button's Website
Url:underthebutton.com
Owner:The Daily Pennsylvanian, Inc.
Editor:Oscar Eichmann, Margarita Matta

The Daily Pennsylvanian, Inc. is the independent student media organization of the University of Pennsylvania. The DP, Inc. publishes The Daily Pennsylvanian newspaper, 34th Street magazine, and Under the Button, as well as five newsletters: The Daily Pennsylvanian, The Weekly Roundup, The Toast, Quaker Nation, and Penn, Unbuttoned.

The Daily Pennsylvanian is published in print once per week when the university is in session, by a staff of more than 300 students. Content is also published online on a daily basis. 34th Street Magazine, an arts and culture magazine, which is published once a month in print, and Under the Button, a satirical publication, also regularly publish content online. The organization operates three principal websites: thedp.com, 34st.com, and underthebutton.com. It has received various collegiate journalism awards.

History

The Daily Pennsylvanian was founded in 1885 as a successor to the University Magazine, a publication by the Philomathean Society.[1] The newspaper has been published daily since 1894, except for a hiatus from May 1943 to November 1945 on account of World War II. The DP broke away from the university in 1962 to become an independent publication, incorporating in 1984 to solidify its financial and editorial independence from the university.[2] Also in 1962 the previously all-male daily began to accept female students. Among the early few women were Mary Selman Hadar, formerly an editor at The Washington Post; Clara Bargellini, today a professor of Mexican art at the National Autonomous University of Mexico; and Susan Nagler Perloff, a Philadelphia freelance writer. Today the newspaper's budget is funded primarily through the sale of advertising by professional and student staff.

Description

The DP is sometimes called Penn's "unofficial journalism department,"[3] because the university has no journalism department (though it does have the prestigious Annenberg School for Communication), and because many of its staff members go on to pursue careers in the print, broadcast, and digital 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 Washington Post, Forbes, the Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Time, and Business Week.

Awards

In 2008, the DP was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists' National Mark of Excellence Award. In the same year, the paper won the Spring 2008 Columbia Gold Crown, awarded to eight college newspapers nationwide. It received first place in the Associated Collegiate Press's Kansas City Convention Best of Show Competition in 2008. The DP won the Pacemaker, awarded by the Associated Collegiate Press and the Newspaper Association of America Foundation in 1990, 1997, 1998, 2000-2004, 2007, 2017, 2018, and 2019.[4] [5] It was ranked as the "most read" college newspaper by The Princeton Review in 1990, 1997, 1998, and 2001. In 2006, College Publisher awarded the DP first place in the category of Best Online Sports Coverage and, in 2008, it was awarded an online Gold Crown for thedp.com.

Notable former staff members

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Philomatheans celebrate 175 years of intellectual rowdiness . March 28, 1988 . 2015-04-26 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160307165559/http://philomathean.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/dpfocus175.pdf . 2016-03-07 .
  2. Web site: About . The Daily Pennsylvanian . 2012-12-25 . 2013-10-03.
  3. News: Shawn Safvi To our readers. Safvi. Shawn. 2007-01-16. The Daily Pennsylvanian. 2017-03-17. en-us.
  4. Web site: ACP - Contest Winners . Studentpress.org . 2013-10-03 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110927161701/http://www.studentpress.org/acp/winners/npm07.html . 2011-09-27 .
  5. News: Cohen . Max . The Daily Pennsylvanian wins 'Pulitzer' of college journalism for third year in a row . The Daily Pennsylvanian . 21 December 2019 . en-us.
  6. Web site: George Wharton Pepper (1867-1961) . University of Pennsylvania University Archives . 2013-10-03.
  7. Web site: Guide, Josiah H. Penniman Papers . University of Pennsylvania University Archives. 2013-10-03.
  8. Web site: Josiah C. McCracken (1876-1957), University of Pennsylvania University Archives . Archives.upenn.edu . 1962-02-15 . 2013-10-03.
  9. Web site: Wilson Thomas Hobson Jr. (1902-1975), University of Pennsylvania University Archives . Archives.upenn.edu . 2013-10-03.
  10. News: Ex D.P. editor appointed "Playboy" General Manager . The Daily Pennsylvanian . LXXXIII. 34 . 1962-09-19 . Philadelphia, PA . 1 . Scanned Archive.
  11. Michael Carlson, The Independent, September 17, 2012, Gaeton Fonzi: Journalist who investigated the assassination of John F Kennedy
  12. Book: Zhang, Yawei. Encyclopedia of Global Health. 2008-01-09. SAGE. 9781412941860. en.
  13. Web site: Ron Perelman Sues Family of Ex-Wife Claudia Cohen . nymag.com . 2013-12-28.
  14. Web site: 09/05/06, Deaths - Almanac, Vol. 53, No. 2 . Upenn.edu . 2013-10-03.
  15. Web site: Gazette Feature: Arnold Eisen's Moment . Upenn.edu . 2013-10-03.
  16. Web site: Benjamin L. Ginsberg . Patton Boggs . 2013-10-03 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130513041516/http://www.pattonboggs.com/bginsberg/ . 2013-05-13 .
  17. News: Pulitzer Prize 'like winning Super Bowl' . https://web.archive.org/web/20100924202833/http://chestnuthilllocal.com/issues/2008.12.25/locallife1.html . dead . 2010-09-24 . Josh . McIlvain . Chestnut Hill Local . 2008-12-25 . 2013-10-03 .
  18. Web site: U.S. Department of State Archive . David A. Gross, Ambassador, U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy . 2022-01-23.
  19. Web site: Gazette v Alumni: Notes . Upenn.edu . 2019-09-19.
  20. Web site: Gazette Alumni: Profiles . Upenn.edu . 2013-10-03.
  21. Web site: The Dallas Morning News Hires Veteran Watchdog Consumer Columnist Dave Lieber . MarketWatch . 2013-10-03.
  22. News: Ian Wenik . Q&A with Ken Rosenthal . 1 September 2018 . The Daily Pennsylvanian . The Daily Pennsylvanian, Inc. . 2012-10-25.
  23. Web site: Line Drives and Bow Ties . The Pennsylvania Gazette . The University of Pennsylvania . 1 September 2018.
  24. Web site: Making News . Wharton Magazine . 2004-01-01 . 2023-01-13 .
  25. Web site: The Pennsylvania Gazette: Harold E. Ford Jr . Upenn.edu . 2013-10-03.
  26. Web site: The trial of Stephen Glass. https://web.archive.org/web/20120106042423/http://blogs.reuters.com/jackshafer/2011/12/07/the-trial-of-stephen-glass/. dead. 2012-01-06. Shafer. Jack. Reuters Blogs. 2017-03-22.
  27. Web site: Josh Tyrangiel Names Editor of Business Week. Media Decoder. 2013-10-03.

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