The Yale Herald Explained

The Yale Herald
School:	Yale University
Chiefeditor:	Connor Arakaki, Madelyn Dawson (2024-25)^[1]
Type:	Weekly student publication
Circulation:	2,000

The Yale Herald^[2] is a newspaper run by undergraduate students at Yale University since 1986. A weekly, the paper covers campus and local events and aims to provide in-depth investigative reporting; it also includes essays, interviews, opinion pieces, culture articles, and reviews.^[3] The paper has a circulation of more than 2,000 and is distributed free of charge throughout the Yale campus.^[4]

Notable alumni

Journalists

• Molly Ball, senior political correspondent, The Wall Street Journal
• Anne Barnard

Beirut bureau chief, The New York Times

• Joshua Benton

director, Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University

• Carl Bialik

reporter, FiveThirtyEight

• Kevin Delaney: editor-in-chief, Quartz
• Ben Greenman

novelist, staffer at The New Yorker

• Ed Park: senior editor of Amazon Publishing's Little A literary fiction imprint
• Bradley Peniston: editor, Armed Forces Journal
• Tiffany Pham

founder, Mogul

• Nathaniel Rich

senior editor, The Paris Review

• Ben Smith

journalist, The New York Times; former editor-in-chief, BuzzFeed News

• Jyoti Thottam: Op-Eds business and economics editor, The New York Times;^[5] former South Asia bureau chief, Time
• Jon Wertheim

covers sports for Sports Illustrated, 60 Minutes, and the Tennis Channel.

• Jessica Winter: arts editor, Time^[6]

Other

• Peter Beinart

senior fellow, Council on Foreign Relations

• Andrew J. Gerber

Medical Director/CEO, Austen Riggs Center

• Michael Gerber, founder, The American Bystander
• John Hodgman

author, humorist, The Daily Show correspondent

• Stephen Lange Ranzini: president/CEO, University Bank
• Demetri Martin

humorist, actor

• Matt Matros

professional poker player

• Greg Pak

filmmaker, Marvel Comics writer

• Jill Savitt: executive director, Dream for Darfur
• Josh Shelov: director of original programming, NBC Sports
• Allison Silverman

executive producer, The Colbert Report

External links

• The Yale Herald online

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2022-09-06 . Masthead – The Yale Herald . 2022-09-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220906141747/https://yale-herald.com/masthead/ . 6 September 2022 . dead.
2. Web site: Yale Herald. The Yale Herald. 25 November 2013.
3. Web site: Review. The Yale Herald. 25 November 2013.
4. Web site: 2017-09-22 . About Us . 2024-04-09 . The Yale Herald . en-US.
5. News: A New Face in Op-Ed: Jyoti Thottam. The New York Times Company. March 5, 2018. 2018-03-06. en-US.
6. Web site: Jessica Winter . TIME Media Kit . https://archive.today/20130616153456/http://www.timemediakit.com/us/media/bios/winter.html . June 16, 2013 . March 26, 2012.