The Daily Free Press
| Boston University | |
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| "The independent student newspaper at Boston University" | |
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| Type | daily student newspaper |
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | The Back Bay Publishing Co. |
| Editor-in-chief | Lexi Peery |
| Managing editors | Elise Takahama |
| Campus editor | Alana Levene |
| Opinion editor | Grace Hagerty |
| Sports editor | Matt Martin |
| Photo editor | Chloe Grinberg |
| Founded | May 5, 1970 |
| Headquarters | Kenmore Square, Boston |
| Circulation | 5,000 Monday–Thursday |
| ISSN | 1094-7337 |
| Website | dailyfreepress |
The Daily Free Press is the independent student newspaper at Boston University. It is a digital-first publication with daily online content and a weekly print edition on Thursday during the academic year. The Daily Free Press is staffed by about 100 volunteer editors, writers, reporters and photographers. The editorial positions change on a semester-to-semester basis. The paper is governed by a board of former editors, who make up the Board of Directors of Back Bay Publishing Co., Inc., a Massachusetts non-profit.
Commonly called the FreeP, The Daily Free Press began publishing May 5, 1970 in response to violent student protests on campus in the wake of the Kent State shootings. In the early 21st century, it is the longest-running, continuous publication at BU.
Until February 13, 2009, The Daily Free Press had published an issue every instructional day since its formation. Given increasingly tight finances for newspapers and declining advertising revenue, the paper decided to discontinue its Friday issue. As of September 2011, circulation was 5,000 issues per day, Monday through Thursday.
This publishing schedule continued until September 2014, when the paper decided to switch to a daily online, weekly print publishing model. This action was intended to allow the newsroom to shift focus to a digital audience while maintaining a print presence. The weekly print edition circulates 5,000 issues each Thursday of the academic year.
The Daily Free Press has won numerous awards for its reporting, including the Columbia Press Association's Gold Medal Award for Excellence. In 2016, it was awarded Best All-Around Non-Daily Newspaper for Region 1 (Society of Professional Journalists) and First Runner-Up for College Newspaper of the Year (New England Newspaper & Press Association), each for its 2015 editorial year.
The paper covers campus news and sports, local (Boston-area) news and publishes editorials, columns and letters each day. Every issue has a daily crossword puzzle. The Daily Free Press also has four sub-sections within its features department, each of which has its own space in the print edition each week.
In January 1980, its Arts and Entertainment coverage became The Muse, the FreeP's weekly A&E publication. Muse is now featured online on both Mondays and Fridays. Science Tuesday began in the 1990s and was rebranded as Catalyst in 2015, following the paper's shift to daily, digital-first content. The features department also includes InBusiness, which covers emerging businesses and includes general business reporting, and Impact, which focuses on human-interest stories. All four sub-sections are featured in the FreeP’s print edition, except for special issues.
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