The Daily of the University of Washington, usually referred to in Seattle simply as The Daily, is the student newspaper of the University of Washington in Seattle, USA.

The Daily was founded in September 1891 as The Pacific Wave and ran under that title until June 5, 1908, having absorbed the short-lived The College Idea which ran during the 1895-1896 school year. The newspaper became a daily with its September 15, 1908 issue and changed its name to The Pacific Daily Wave. This name lasted until May 21, 1909, and the paper became The University of Washington Daily when the 1909-1910 school year began.

The Daily ceased publishing a Monday issue in 1933 during the Great Depression. In 1976, it became The Daily of the University of Washington, and in 1985 it resumed publishing on Mondays.

The Daily is overseen by the Board of Student Publications, on which sit representatives of the Associated Students of the University of Washington (ASUW), the Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS), the Faculty Senate, the UW Department of Communication, the UW administration, the Daily newsroom, and a local professional publication. Only the publisher, assistant publisher, accounting and delivery staff are not University of Washington students.

Aside from campus news, The Daily includes regular features, sports and opinion sections, as well as a Thursday arts and entertainment section.

The Daily earned the 2007, 2008, and 2009 Apple Award for the best four-year college newspaper (tabloid) in the United States at the CMA Spring Convention in New York City. It has also been recognized with the 2007 & 2008 Mark of Excellence Award for the Best Overall Newspaper in Region X by the Society of Professional Journalists (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska). It is now a finalist for the 2009 Pacemaker Newspaper of the Year. The winner of this national award will be announced October 31, 2009 at the National College Media Conference held in Austin, Texas.

Former awards include Newspaper of the Year from the Associated Collegiate Press in 1996, 1997 and 2000; and the Mark of Excellence Award for the Best All Around Newspaper in the nation from the Society of Professional Journalists in 1997.

Controversy

In the November of 2008, the Daily ran an op-ed column written by John Fay, a columnist, which criticized gay marriage as part of a point/counterpoint regarding the passage of Proposition 8 in California. The piece was accompanied by an illustration of a man standing next to a sheep, referencing Fay's statement that allowing gay marriage would lead to legal bestiality. Among other controversial statements, Fay argued that "being homosexual, like other emotional tendencies, doesn’t make someone a bad person, but it’s a problem that needs to be dealt with, not denied." The article sparked an outrage among the student body, and students assembled in the Husky Union Building to protest, claiming that the article encourages "fear and hate."

The Graduate and Professional Student Senate drafted a resolution at their December 3, 2008 meeting to have the editor-in-chief and opinion editor to either apologize for the publication of the opinion piece and illustration, or to resign.

Daily editor-in-chief Sarah Jeglum stated that she supports balanced viewpoints and doesn't plan to give the apology as requested. She encouraged groups and individuals to continue to voice their various opinions and to have The Daily act as a public forum for a variety of opinion.

The Graduate and Professional Student Senate passed a resolution at their February 4, 2009 meeting to direct the GPSS representative on the Board of Student Publications to vote for censure of editor-in-chief Sarah Jeglum.

http://www.gpss.washington.edu/documents

On February 10, 2009 the Associated Students of the University of Washington (ASUW) passed a resolution to support "the independence of The Daily as a member of the free press, and supports its right to publish controversial material provided it is within the bounds of speech protected by the first amendment and THAT the ASUW finds that printing this article did not cross those legal boundaries and did not violate The Daily’s code of ethics,thus a call for censure of Sarah Jeglum is not warranted."

http://senate.asuw.org/legislation/15/R/R-15-19.html

The Board of Student Publications met February 19 to consider the GPSS resolution to censure Sarah Jeglum. The board voted with two yea, and five nay and the resolution failed to be adopted by the Board.

ASUW then considered another resolution in response the GPSS attempt to censure to establish Free Speech and National Freedom of Speech Week during the third week of October.

http://senate.asuw.org/legislation/15/R/R-15-28.html

Current staff

The staff for Autumn 2009 is as follows:

• Editor-in-chief - Casey Smith
• Managing editor - Colleen Kirsten
• News editor - Eric Staples
• Sports editor - Christian Caple
• Features editor - Rachel Solomon
• Opinion editor - Allen Wagner
• Arts & Entertainment editor - Ivan Vukovic
• Development editor - Vicky Yan
• Husky News Now (video) manager - Maks Goldenshteyn
• Copy Chief - Parisa Sadrzadeh

Alumni

• Heather Brooke — Journalist/activist who helped force the resignation of the Speaker of the British House of Commons with her investigation into expenses of MPs
• Jim Caple — Senior writer for ESPN, former Daily editor.
• Timothy Egan — 2006 National Book Award winner; Pulitzer Prize winner, enterprise reporter for the New York Times
• David Horsey — Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, editorial cartoonist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• Evelyn Iritani — 2004 Pulitzer Prize winner
• John Keister — Comedian and host of the local comedy program Almost Live! from 1988 to 1999.
• Rod Mar — Former Seattle Times photographer
• Bryan Monroe — President, National Association of Black Journalists, former editor of Ebony magazine, former Daily editor.
• Eric Nalder — Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, chief investigative reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Notes and references

1. About The Daily - The Daily of the University of Washington

External links

• http://dailyuw.com/