The Doon School Weekly
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The Doon School Weekly (informally The Weekly) is a student newspaper produced by and for the students of The Doon School. It was established in 1936, a year after the school's founding, by the first headmaster Arthur Foot. The Weekly is the oldest and flagship publication of the school.
The paper, distributed every Saturday morning, carries a mix of reports on school activities, trips or expeditions, opinion pieces, critique of school policies, interviews of visiting speakers, student polls, puzzles, cartoons (known as 'Dosco Doodle'), and creative writing, including short stories, poetry, satire or personal essays. The alumni keep up to date with the developments at school through the newspaper, which is also published online on The Doon School's official website.
Notable alumni in the fields of literature, journalism, politics and academia, including Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh, Ramachandra Guha, Karan Thapar, have been former editors of the publication. The Weekly's sister publications at the school include The Infinity, The Doon School Information Review, The Circle, and The Yearbook.
History
Founded by Arthur Foot in 1936, The Doon School Weekly is owned by Indian Public Schools' Society, the governing society of The Doon School. For the first three years of its existence, the newspaper was produced using a cyclostyle, and then moved to a printing press. A number of the Weekly's contributors or editors are today working as authors, journalists, academics or politicians.
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