Rank Ivies by Newspaper Quality

College Search & Selection
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<p>Since there are a million other Ivy League-ranking threads, I thought I'd start one which would interest me. I intend to write for my college newspaper, and I was wondering (out of pure interest, it won't really influence anything) which Ivy League schools have the strongest newspapers. </p>

<p>Obviously Northwestern and other non-Ivies have excellent newspapers; I'm just wondering about the Ivies' newspapers for the heck of it. :)</p>

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<p>According to the Princeton Review,</p>

<p>Yale
Penn
Harvard</p>

<p>The rest aren’t in the top 20. There’s probably a more reputable source out there somewhere.</p>

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<p>Columbia’s is one of the oldest. That’s all I know.</p>

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<p>Obama did it so can you.</p>

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<p>I thought IvyGate was the best. ;)</p>

<p>Brown’s Daily Herald is quite good. The Dartmouth is decent, but I find the Dartmouth Review more interesting.</p>

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That interested me, so I looked it up.</p>

<p>Brown Daily Herald 1866
The Dartmouth 1867
Harvard Crimson 1873
Daily Princetonian 1876
Columbia Daily Spectator 1877
Yale Daily News 1878
Cornell Daily Sun 1880
Daily Pennsylvanian 1885</p>

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<p>Several Ivies claim to have the nation’s oldest/first/etc college newspaper. In terms of quality though, Harvard Crimson and DP dominate. Just check how many awards they win…</p>

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<p>While I’m not a huge fan of the BDH’s reporting, I can say the readership on campus is quite high, nearly universal.</p>

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<p>Founded in 1877, it is the oldest continually operating college news daily in the nation after The Harvard Crimson, and has been financially independent of the university since 1962.</p>

<p>re: the spectator’s wiki.</p>

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<p>“In terms of quality though, Harvard Crimson and DP dominate. Just check how many awards they win.”</p>

<p>That’s right.</p>

<p>ETA: DP = the Daily Pennsylvanian.</p>

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ilovebagels obviously didn’t write for the Daily Pennsylvanian when he was at Penn, or else he would have known better than to use its ambiguous–in this context–initials in his post. :)</p>

<p>For what it’s worth, this is from the Daily Pennsylvanian’s wiki entry:</p>

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<p>[The</a> Daily Pennsylvanian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Pennsylvanian]The”>The Daily Pennsylvanian - Wikipedia)</p>

<p>I’m sure the same could be said of other Ivy newspapers.</p>

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<p>ilovebagels DID write for the Daily Pennsylvanian! Oh snap!!!</p>

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<p>You mean the DP? :p</p>