Yale Daily News
student newspaper published by Yale University
The Yale Daily News is a student newspaper published by students at Yale University, an Ivy League university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States since 1878. It is the oldest independent college daily newspaper in the United States.
Description
Financially and editorially independent of Yale University since its founding, the Yale Daily News is published online by a student editorial and business staff Monday through Friday, in addition to Tuesday and Friday print editions, during Yale's academic year. Called the YDN, or sometimes the News, the Daily News, or the Daily Yalie, the newspaper is produced in Briton Hadden Memorial Building at 202 York Street in New Haven and printed off-site at Valley Publishing Company in Derby, Connecticut.
Each day, reporters, mainly freshmen and sophomores, cover the university, the city of New Haven and sometimes the state of Connecticut. Besides updating its website with new stories five days a week, the News sends out daily, weekend and breaking news newsletters and posts its contents to social media.
The News also publishes a daily opinion section, a Friday "WKND" section, and special issues for the incoming freshman class, Yale's Class Day and Commencement, The Game against Harvard University, and the experiences of Latinx, Black and Asian students in October, February and April, respectively.
Staff members generally serve as editors on the managing board during their junior year. A single chairman led the editorial and business sides of the News until 1970. Since then, the editor-in-chief also serves as president of the Yale Daily News Publishing Company, while the publisher oversees business operations.
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The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2599070. VIAF identifies the subject as 258408081. The Library of Congress control number is no2011103927. 1 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1878 and 1970.
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