Over the course of the coming year, we hope to draw interest, ire and respect. Interest with fearless coverage of Yale and New Haven, ire by holding those in power to account and respect with our commitment to truth, fairness and to the communities we cover and serve.
This week, the managing board of 2023 takes the helm of the oldest college daily. It’s also the first week we can all return to in-person production at 202 York St. It’s fitting. Sound again reverberates around the walls of the reporter’s room, echoing off the tacked-up YDN issues from years gone by.
Last year was a challenge, with interviews and edits held over Zoom.
This year, with our return to in-person production, we welcome the camaraderie of journalism: reporters and editors clustered around pages for proofing, the serendipitous story discovery from conversations on Cross Campus and the newsroom debates and collaborative decisions that lead to strong content. Our reporters will once again venture out in person to track down stories, and our new staff can don newspaper hats as they are inducted into the YDN.
We’ll do our best to cover the Yale and New Haven communities from top to bottom. The door to 202 York St. is always open. If you’d like your perspective heard, to uplift others’ voices or to tell us how we can improve, we’ll be here every day — and very late into the night.
We pledge our commitment to the truth, to “clean, dignified, and trustworthy journalism.” The News must be an essential resource that both holds those in power to account and serves the community. For years, it has established a legacy of critical coverage, steadily chronicling life at Yale. But it has made mistakes and errors, touching off well-deserved criticism.
To investigate the history of the institution, we must examine how it responded to national events, how it reported on and perpetuated prejudices in American life and what role the News had at Yale. We have the opportunity to understand the history of the News, to know from where we came. By accounting for the past, we can decide what role the News should have in the coming years. We will craft a mission statement and code of ethics for our organization and our journalistic pursuits. We will use our printed columns to affect change.
We see what the News can and should be: a check on power and a source of vital information, as well as untold stories of community life.
We will take a digital-first approach, utilizing innovative avenues to conduct visual investigations, more fully chronicle student voices in our podcasts and to mark the slice of Yale life in the year that we cover. We can publish and disseminate breaking news on a faster scale and to a broader audience, and more effectively engage with our readers.
We know our aims are lofty, but we will work tirelessly to bring them to fruition. We care so much about this paper and about the role of journalism. We will do all we can to earn your trust. With gratitude, recognition of the News’ role, and the hope that you’ll join us:
The Yale Daily News Managing Board of 2023
Editor in Chief & President: Rose Horowitch
Print Managing Editor: Zaporah Price
Multimedia Managing Editor: Natalie Kainz
Arts
Editor: Marisol Carty
Business & Advertising
Publisher: Christian Martinez Contreras
Director of Finance: Melissa Kim
Director of Operations: Angela Lee
City
Editors: Christian Robles, Owen Tucker-Smith
Copy
Editors: Josie Jahng, Chris Lee, Hailey O’Connor, Caroline Parker, Yingying Zhao,
Data
Editors: Leon Lufkin, Amy Zhao
Illustrations
Editors: Sophie Henry, Cecilia Lee
Opinion
Editors: Caleb Dunson, Awuor Onguru
Photography
Editors: Zoe Berg, Vaibhav Sharma, Karen Lin, Regina Sung, Hedy Tung
Podcasts
Editors: Andrea Lee, Simi Olurin
Production & Design
Editors: Jose Estrada, Rachel Folmar, Elifnaz Onder, Stephanie Shao, Isaac Yu
Public Editors
Editors: Julia Bialek, Jose Davila IV, Phoebe Liu
SciTech
Editors: Anjali Mangla, Nicole Rodriguez
Sports
Editors: Ryan Chiao, Eugenio Garza García
University
Editors: Julia Brown, Amelia Davidson
Web Development
Lead Developers: Julia Macri, Iris Yang
WKND
Editors: Claire Fang, Jordan Fitzgerald, Tony Hao, Ángela Pérez
YTV
Editors: Maya Weldon-Lagrimas, Olivia Sally