The Daily Pennsylvanian

The Daily Pennsylvanian
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Cover of The Daily Pennsylvanian (February 8, 2017), highlighting Joe Biden's new job at the University of Pennsylvania.
TypeWeekly student newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)The Daily Pennsylvanian, Inc.
PresidentMolly Cohen
Editor-in-chiefJared Mitovich
Managing editorAnna Vazhaeparambil
News editorKatie Bartlett, Ben Binday
Opinion editorYomi Abdi
Sports editorWalker Carnathan, Vivian Yao
Photo editorAbhiram Juvvadi
Business managerZain Qureshi
FoundedDecember 15, 1885; 138 years ago (1885-12-15) (as The Pennsylvanian)
HeadquartersPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
Websitethedp.com
Free online archiveslibrary.upenn.edu
34th Street Magazine
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Cover of 34st Magazine (Week of March 21, 2016) investigating the use of Adderall as a study drug.
TypeMonthly magazine
FormatTabloid
Owner(s)The Daily Pennsylvanian, Inc.
Editor-in-chiefNatalia Castillo
Founded1968; 56 years ago (1968)
Website34st.com
Under the Button
Under The Button's Website
OwnerThe Daily Pennsylvanian, Inc.
EditorOscar Eichmann, Margarita Matta
URLunderthebutton.com
Launched2008; 16 years ago (2008)

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.[citation needed] 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. 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. 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 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," 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. 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


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