The Cornell Daily Sun
The Cornell Daily Sun is an independent newspaper at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. It is published twice weekly by Cornell University students and hired employees. Founded in 1880, The Sun is the oldest continuously independent college daily in the United States.[2]
Type
Independent
Gabriel Levin
142nd Editorial Board
September 16, 1880
139 W State St., Ithaca, New York, U.S.
3,000 (as of 2022)[1]
The Sun features coverage of the university and its environs and articles from the Associated Press and UWIRE. It prints on Tuesdays and Thursdays when the university is open for academic instruction.[3] In addition to these regular issues, The Sun publishes a graduation issue and a freshman issue, which is mailed to incoming Cornell freshmen before their first semester. The paper is free on campus and online. The Sun edits under its proprietary "Sun Style Guide," an amended version of AP Style.
Aside from a few full-time production positions, The Sun is staffed by Cornell students and is fully independent of the university. It operates out of its own building in downtown Ithaca. As of 2023, The Sun is ranked the third-best college student newspaper in the nation, according to College Choice's annual rankings.[4]
food and wine columnist; restaurateur, sommelier, chef, and former Top Chef contestant
Stephen Asprinio
Business Board; information security expert and founder, University of the Potomac and University of Fairfax
Victor Berlin
Jay Branegan, senior editor (1971–72); -winning journalist with thr Chicago Tribune
1976 Pulitzer Prize
associate editor (1971–72); technology investor, executive, and pioneer who developed first electronic dictionary and thesaurus, ClearType, and Open eBook
Dick Brass
news editor; poet and playwright
Charles Divine
columnist; entrepreneur and writer
Rob Fishman
photographer; 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and East Africa Bureau Chief, The New York Times
Jeffrey Gettleman
political cartoonist; former contributing editor, National Lampoon, author of over 60 books
Joey Green
News Board; financial and economic journalist and executive editor, strategy+business magazine
Daniel Gross
editor-in-chief (1908–09); former U.S. Congressman
Lewis Henry
business manager; film and television producer, co-founder of Lightstorm Entertainment and Threshold Entertainment with James Cameron
Lawrence Kasanoff
editor-in-chief (1956–57); journalist, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and others
Andrew Kopkind
editor-in-chief (1986–87); managing editor, The New York Times[7] and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner at the Los Angeles Times
Marc Lacey
columnist; former New York City Schools Chancellor and former executive director, Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
Harold O. Levy
news reporter; Washington bureau reporter, The New York Times and 2006 Pulitzer Prize recipient
Eric Lichtblau
editor-in-chief (1999–2000); author and technology journalist and opinion writer, The New York Times[8]
Farhad Manjoo
supplement editor; physician, educator, and author
Joseph Masci
associate editor; lawyer and civil rights leader
Will Maslow
managing editor (1954–55); diplomat, banker, and philanthropist and Export-Import Bank of the United States chairman
Philip Merrill
News Board; financial journalist
Scot J. Paltrow
associate editor; historian, writer and professor of history
Paul A. Rahe
Sports Department; journalist, political commentator, and talk show host
Jon Ralston
editor-in-chief (1932–33); former U.S. Congressman
Henry S. Reuss
managing editor (1967–68); reporter, columnist, and editor, The New York Times and biographer of David Greenglass and Nelson Rockefeller
Sam Roberts
editor-in-chief (1970–71); screenwriter and professor
Howard A. Rodman
editor-in-chief (1957–58); environmental and technology scholar and author and leader of secessionist movement
Kirkpatrick Sale
editor-in-chief (1954–55); sports writer and broadcaster
Dick Schaap
news editor (1955), theatre reviewer (1956); author, editor, theatre director, professor, New York University Tisch School of the Arts
Richard Schechner
television producer, filmmaker, and media critic
Danny Schechter
humor columnist (1936–37); film director, producer, screenwriter, author
Melville Shavelson
associate editor; magazine columnist, article critic, and biographer, The New York Times Magazine
Deborah Solomon
feature editor (1973–74); history and classics professor, Cornell University and ancient military history author
Barry S. Strauss
editorial board; former U.S. Congressman
Elmer E. Studley
senior editor; syndicated newspaper columnist
Jacob Sullum
news editor (2009); inaugural recipient of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for audio reporting
Molly O'Toole
editor-in-chief (1917–18); Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Elbert Tuttle
columnist; political journalist and commentator
Jamie Weinstein
editor-in-chief (1920–21); columnist and author, Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, The Trumpet of the Swan, co-author, The Elements of Style, and 1978 Pulitzer Prize special award recipient
E. B. White
The Cornell Daily Sun claims over a dozen Pulitzer Prize winners and boasts a number of prominent alumni, including:
Other prominent Cornellians have written letters to the editor, including former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who responded to an op-ed on wiretapping written by Cornell Law School students with a letter to the editor in 1953.
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"," Cornell Magazine, Vol. 105 No. 5, March/April 2003.
From the Hill: Housing News: A Home for the Sun
Bishop, Morris. A History of Cornell. : Cornell University Press, 1962. ISBN 0-8014-0036-8
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Margulis, Daniel ed. A Century at Cornell: Published to Commemorate the Hundredth Anniversary of the Cornell Daily Sun. Ithaca, New York: Cornell Daily Sun, 1980. 0-938304-00-3