The McGill Daily
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| Type | Student-run media group |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Daily Publications Society |
| Publisher | Daily Publications Society |
| Founded | 1911 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 3480, rue McTavish Suite B-24 Montreal, Quebec H3A 1X9 |
| Circulation | 6,000 (per issue) |
| ISSN | 1192-4608 |
| Website | mcgilldaily.com |
The McGill Daily is an independent student newspaper at McGill University and is entirely run by students. Despite its name, The Daily has recently reduced its print publication to once a week, normally on Mondays, in addition to producing online-only content and weekly radio segments for CKUT 90.3 FM.
The Daily was originally published daily in 1911. It began as a sports rag in the broadsheet format and has since transitioned to the tabloid format, covering a wide range of issues related to the McGill and greater Montreal community. The paper's content sections are News, Commentary, Culture, Features, Science + Technology, Sports, Unfit to Print (radio and video), and Compendium!.
The Daily strives to represent the voices of those traditionally marginalized, and recognizes that power is unevenly distributed – though not solely – on the basis of gender, age, social class, race, sexuality, religion, ability, and cultural identity. The Daily generally supports grassroots student activism and direct action. Much of its features coverage is devoted to issues of social justice, accessibility, and inequality.
The Daily is one of Canada's oldest university publications, continually publishing since the early 1900s. At one time, the paper was even "the oldest daily student newspaper in the Commonwealth".
The Daily has been the training ground for generations of journalists since its inception in 1911. Currently The Daily is one of the largest student newspapers in Canada and is widely read both on the McGill campus and around Montreal. The Daily began as a broadsheet that focused mainly on sports news. Its evolution has taken many directions. Over the years, it has taken stands considered controversial at their times, such as publishing a special issue for International Women’s Day in the late 1970.
The Daily has been independent from student government since 1980. It is published by the Daily Publications Society, an autonomous body whose membership includes all McGill downtown campus undergraduate students except Continuing Education, as well as all graduate students excluding non-residents, graduate medical and graduate dentistry students.
In 2010, the Daily Publications Society proposed raising the non-opt-outable fee from $5 to $6 per semester due to declining ad revenues. A "No Committee" formed by students challenged the fee increase, saying that the money could be better spent on underfunded programs. With a high voter turnout, the referendum passed by 2.6%.
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