Michigan Daily

The Michigan Daily is the daily student newspaper of the University of Michigan. Its first edition was published on September 29, 1890. It was founded to establish a counterweight to the university's fraternity culture. The newspaper is financially and editorially independent of the school's administration and other student groups, but shares a university building with other student publications on 420 Maynard Street, north of the Michigan Union and Huetwell Student Activities Center.

Related Topics:
University of Michigan - September 29 - 1890 - Fraternity - Michigan Union

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Currently, The Michigan Daily is published five days a week, Monday through Friday, during the Fall and Winter semesters. It is published weekly as a summer edition from May to August. Mondays generally contain a lengthy SportsMonday Sports section (reminiscent, and probably derived from, The New York Times), while Thursdays contain the release of a Magazine, originally called Weekend Magazine but called The Statement, a reference to Tom Hayden's Port Huron Statement, as of Fall 2005. Daily print circulation is currently over 17,000 copies, with over 230,000 unique visitors per month to its website.

Related Topics:
The New York Times - Tom Hayden - Port Huron Statement

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In 1952, the Soviet delegate to the United Nations, F.A. Novikov, singled out the newspaper as emblematic of American warmongering. Activist and politician Tom Hayden, an author of the Port Huron Statement, later came to personify the publication's editorial philosophy. According to the anthology Special to the Daily, the newspaper was also the original source of the so-called "Paul is dead" hoax, which, among other things, included rumors that hidden audio on the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band gave clues to the death of Beatle Paul McCartney. In 2005, an editor at the Daily was a core conspirator of the Greenlighting Internet hoax.

Related Topics:
Soviet - United Nations - American - Tom Hayden - Port Huron Statement - Paul is dead - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Beatle - Paul McCartney - Greenlighting

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Alumni of the publication include editors and reporters at newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Associated Press, Roll Call, and Detroit Free Press.

Related Topics:
The New York Times - The Washington Post - The Wall Street Journal - The New Republic - Chicago Tribune - Baltimore Sun - Associated Press - Roll Call - Detroit Free Press

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