Yale Daily News
This weekend, the Yale Daily News elected the managing board of 2024. We began our first week of production on Sunday and look forward to many more late nights to come.
We begin our year with an acknowledgement. The News has historically hurt communities on this campus and in New Haven, and in many cases failed the people it has sworn to serve. While our staff turns over year after year, we understand that our institutional history cannot be easily cast off, and we bear the responsibility of the paper’s legacy.
In the coming year, we hope to move the needle in a new direction. We make no lofty promises to wholly repair the relationships and trust we have broken; such appeals have fallen flat and themselves become a source of frustration in the past.
Instead, the effort starts with a hard look at our internal culture and traditions. We can no longer cling to the conventions of the past for their own sake. They must serve our members — especially those who have been undercut and ignored — as well as the modern institution we hope to become.
This year, we will conduct a rigorous evaluation of our recruitment, retention and leadership selection processes. They have posed significant barriers to entry and engagement for marginalized peoples and time and time again discouraged many from remaining in our newsroom, or entering at all. We have fallen behind our peer publications, at Yale and on other campuses, both in the representation of diverse peoples in our management and in the infrastructure that supports them.
As campus journalists in a diverse city, it is our continued responsibility to amplify the voices of the communities we serve. Through renewed attention to all corners of New Haven, we hope to reach the individual residents of our city rather than swoop in as self-appointed saviors.
We will ground our university reporting on the student level, striving to foster relationships with those this institution has historically excluded. We recognize that the trust of the student body is not something we are entitled to, but something we have to earn. In the coming year, we will increase the transparency of our newsroom policies and be brave enough to loudly hold ourselves accountable when we make mistakes.
As we begin our year steering the News, we are emerging from a period of rebuilding. Two years ago, our energy went toward seeing the paper through the darkest days of the pandemic. In the past year, we have returned to in-person production amid COVID-19-related staffing shortages and new print policies. Now, we have reached a moment where we can afford to be ambitious.
We hope that you will join us this year, as readers or contributors, in our efforts to cover our surrounding communities with grace, humility and fearless journalism in pursuit of the truth.
Editor-in-Chief & President
Lucy Hodgman
Brooklyn, NY
Print Managing Editors
Ángela Pérez
Caguas, PR
Isaac Yu
Garland, TX
Multimedia Managing Editor
Dante Motley
Austin, TX
Publisher
Olivia Zhang
Long Island, NY
Public Editor
Christian Robles
Washington, DC
Director of Internal Affairs
Nicole Rodriguez
Director of External Affairs
Anjali Mangla
Cheshire, CT
Opinion Editors
Jean Wang
Shi Wen Yeo
Singapore
University Editors
Miranda Jeyaretnam
Singapore
Jordan Fitzgerald
Livingston, NJ
City Editors
Sylvan Lebrun
Sai Rayala
Powell, OH
Arts Editor
Olivia Charis
Marrero, LA
Science & Technology Editor
Sophie Wang
Los Altos, CA
Elizabeth Watson
Waco, TX
Sports Editors
Andrew Cramer
New York, NY
Hamera Shabbir
Patterson, CA
Weekend Editors
Eda Aker
Miami, FL
Jacqueline Kaskel
Boca Raton, FL
Alex Ori
Chicago, IL
Ava Saylor
Yucaipa, CA
Magazine Editors
Oliver Guinan
Reno, NV
Abigail Sylvor Greenberg
New York, NY
Chief Financial Officer
Stevan Kamatovic
Chicago, IL
YTV
Piper Jackman
Pittsburgh, PA
Max Sternlicht
Pikesville, MD
Maya Weldon-Lagrimas
Stockton, CA
Copy Editors
Josie Jahng
Livingston, NJ
Maya Melnik
Pasadena, CA
Hailey O’Connor
Sparta, NJ
Patrick SebaRaj
Salisbury, MD
Production and Design Editors
Beril Birlik
Turkey
Chris de Santis
Wynnewood, PA
Evan Gorelick
Woodbridge, CT
Yash Roy
Princeton, NJ
Anika Seth
Rockville, MD
Sophie Sonnenfeld
New Haven, CT
Photography Editors
Gavin Guerrette
Pottstown, PA
Yasmine Halmane
Secaucus, NJ
Tenzin Jorden
East Rutherford, NJ
Tim Tai
Giri Viswanathan
Monroeville, PA
Podcast Editor
Alyssa Michel
Elkins Park, PA
Illustrations Editors
Ariane de Gennaro
New York, NY
Jessai Flores
Grand Prairie, TX
Tech Lead
Tiger Wang
Bell Buckle, TN
Audience Editors
Toia Conde Rodrigues da Cunha
Paraguay
Charlotte Hughes
Columbia, SC
Rachel Shin
Mechanicsburg, PA