Today is the Daily’s last Winter Term edition
By Courtney Ratkowiak, written on Apr. 21, 2009
April 21 is the last day of Winter 2009 classes, which means The Michigan Daily will not print again until launching its summer paper on Monday, May 5. The Daily summer edition comes out once per week on Mondays.
However, this doesn’t mean the frequency of the Daily’s coverage will mirror the frequency of its print edition. The website will be regularly updated multiple times per week for the next four months, so keep checking michigandaily.com for up-to-date campus news.
Over the next few days, watch for coverage of legendary professors Don Cameron and Ralph Williams’ last lectures. This weekend, the Michigan tennis team will host the Big Ten Championships. We’ll have extensive coverage of the tournament and of every spring sport.
For the next four months, we’ll also be temporarily handing over the reins to a new editorial staff. Current senior arts editor Jamie Block will be the summer editor in chief, and current editorial page editor Robby Soave will be the summer managing editor. Current Daily staff reporter Lara Zade will be the summer managing news editor, current sports night editor Ryan Kartje will be the summer managing sports editor, current senior opinion editor Rachel Van Gilder will be the summer editorial page editor and current staff writer David Riva will be the summer managing arts editor.
If you have ideas for summer coverage, please email Jamie Block at jamblock@umich.edu.
We thank you for reading the Daily this semester, and we ask that you please continue to be a faithful reader of our website this summer.
The Anatomy of an Endowment series
By Gary Graca, written on Mar. 16, 2009
I would like to call readers’ attention to a wonder series that Daily reporters Andy Kroll and Kyle Swanson put together for this week’s Daily. The series examines the University’s endowment and hopes to do so in a way that readers can easily understand. It also comes at a critical time: With state funding threatened, the endowment has become the financial backbone of the University.
Students of the Year nominations
By Courtney Ratkowiak, written on Mar. 5, 2009
The Michigan Daily is looking for nominations for the Students of the Year edition of The Statement. The issue will feature people from every corner of campus whose personal achievements or contribution to the community deserve special recognition. In the past, we’ve profiled leaders of student groups, campus activists, artists, athletes and even the Hot Dog Man, the infamous hot-dog throwing fan from the 2006 and 2007 Wolverine football seasons.
How readers can help moderate comments
By Gary Graca, written on Mar. 3, 2009
Before spring break, the Daily ran several articles that provoked a large online response from readers, especially Kristen Steagall’s cover story for The Statement about the challenges of being a transgender student on campus “Seeking a post-gender society,” which received more than 60 comments (the largest I’ve seen since I started working at the Daily).
In many ways, this is a good thing. Whether you agreed with all of the comments or not, these online discussions can help us better understand ourselves and our campus. On the other hand, I heard from several readers (and friends of mine) that they would like to see a little more done to keep the conversation productive.
And we’re back…
By Gary Graca, written on Mar. 2, 2009
After a brief hiatus for spring breaks, in which we took trips across the Atlantic, hiked through America’s national parks, attended an anarchist convention, donated our time to charity, and slept in until noon at our parent’s house (that one’s me), the Daily is back in full force today.
Though we weren’t providing all of our usual content over break and we missed a few stories, we tried to get readers online updates on most of the breaking stories. I’d like to hear from readers how they think we did and how they would like us to bring them online news during future breaks.
Feel free to e-mail me at graca@michigandaily.com or comment on this post.
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A Guide to Bylines
By Gary Graca, written on Feb. 26, 2009
Bylines are indescribably important. They serve as a quick way for readers to judge an article’s credibility by displaying who the author is and what that author’s position at the newspaper is. And because they are such a simple cue to readers, newspapers benefit, too. Readers turn to credible writers. That may not matter much for newspapers that have institutional credibility like The New York Times, but it does for smaller newspapers that depend on their individual writers’ credibility to signal the paper’s overall credibility.
But because bylines are such an institutional figure of newspapers, we often overlook whether they are serving their purpose. If readers don’t know what each byline means, then the point is lost. With that in mind, I bring you a guide to the Daily’s bylines.
From the Daily’s vault: When work study was in peril
By Gary Graca, written on Feb. 25, 2009
Stacked in closets, boxes and file cabinets around the Daily’s office are 119 years of interesting documents, letters, memos, notes and garbage. This grab bag of historical archives offers an unparalleled look into how the Daily and the University worked decades ago. Each Wednesday, I’ll post something from these archives.
This week’s installment is a set of letters from 1990. Read the rest of this entry »
The Daily is on spring break
By Courtney Ratkowiak, written on Feb. 23, 2009
The Michigan Daily publishes every day class is in session at the University, and so we won’t be putting out a print edition the week of Monday, Feb. 23 through Friday, Feb. 27 due to spring break. Look for online updates throughout the week regarding breaking news or results of Michigan sporting events, and we’ll be back on Monday, Mar. 2. In the meantime, please feel free to send letters to tothedaily@umich.edu or news tips to news@michigandaily.com.
Submit to The Statement’s literature issue
By Jessica Vosgerchian, written on Feb. 16, 2009
The Michigan Daily’s weekly magazine The Statement is accepting poetry and short fiction submissions from students for the annual literature issue. Please e-mail your work to vosgerchian@michigandaily.com in a Word document attachment (.doc). Poems must be under 40 lines and prose should not exceed 2,500 words. Flash fiction (less than 1,200 words) is especially welcome.
The deadline has been extended to Wednesday, Feb. 18.
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The Daily joins Google News
By Gary Graca, written on Feb. 14, 2009
Google News, like other sites that aggregate headlines, has become wildly popular. But for some mysterious reason, the Daily hadn’t been included in Google News for some time now.