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January 27, 2022

Almanac of Story Tellers: Yale Daily News

  Every day brings a new story.  And each day contributes to the art of story telling -- in prose and poetry, in music, on the stage, on the screen, and, of course, in books

Today is the story of January 28th

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    It is the 28th day of the year, leaving 337 days remaining in 2022.
      
    On this date in 1878, the Yale Daily News began publishing in New Haven, Conn. It has done so continuously since then, making it the oldest independent college daily in the United States.

    The newspaper, staffed and run by students at Yale University, covers the university campus, the city of New haven, and the state of Connecticut. It tells news stories and publishes five days a week while the university is in session, with an abbreviated summer publication schedule. 

    The Daily News is distributed throughout the Yale campus and New Haven. 

    It boasts a staff of nearly 300, including its print and web editions. It has won numerous college, state, and local journalism awards, 

    Among its alumni is Gary Trudeau, the creator of the Doonesbury strip. Trudeau began drawing the strip while working at the Daily News. The strip then was called Bull Tales, and some of its early characters lived on in Doonesbury. William F. Buckley Jr. wrote for and served as chairman of the newspaper.    

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