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The McGill Daily, in production for almost 100 years, is the only independent student newspaper on campus at McGill University and is entirely run by volunteers. Currently, we publish twice weekly, on Mondays and Thursdays.
To get involved, drop by our offices in room B-24 of the Shatner Building and talk to any of our editors, give us a call at (514) 398-6784, or email us at coordinating [at mcgilldaily.com or one of our section-specific addresses, listed below. You can also come to news meetings on Mondays at 4:30 in the Shatner cafeteria, culture meetings Tuesdays at 4:30 in the Daily office, and Photo/Graphics meetings Mondays at 5:30 in the Daily office. No experience required, just enthusiasm.
Please note that we do not publish over the summer.
Editorial Offices: 3480 McTavish St. Rm. B-24 Montreal QC, H3A 1X9 phone: 514.398.6784, fax: 514.398.8318 www.mcgilldaily.com coordinating [at] mcgilldaily.com
Coordinating Editor: coordinating [at] mcgilldaily.com Drew Nelles
News news [at] mcgilldaily.com
Coordinating News Editor Kelly Ebbels
News Editor: Max Halparin
News Editor: Jennifer Markowitz
News Editor: Nicholas Smith
Features Editor: features [at] mcgilldaily.com
Culture culture [at] mcgilldaily.com
Coordinating Culture Editor: Simon Lewson
Culture Editor: Claire Caldwell
Culture Editor: Caroline Zimmerman
Commentary & Compendium Editor: commentary [at] mcgilldaily.com PJ Vogt
Mind&Body Editor: mindnbody [at] mcgilldaily.com Rosie Aiello
Science+Technology Editor: scitech [at] mcgilldaily.com Lindsay Waterman
Photo photos [at] mcgilldaily.com
Photo Editor: Nadja Popovich
Graphics Editor: David Pullmer
Production & Design Editor: design [at] mcgilldaily.com Will Vanderbilt
Web Editor: web [at] mcgilldaily.com Peter Hurley
Copy Editor: Leah Pires
Le Délit: Laurence Martin redaction [at] delitfrancais.com
Business & Advertising Office: 3480 McTavish St. Rm. B-26 Montreal QC, H3A 1X9 phone: 514.398.6790, fax: 514.398.8318 daily [at] ssmu.mcgill.ca
Advertising Manager: Boris Shedov
Treasurer: Pierre Bouillon
Advertising Layout and Design: Mathieu Ménard
About The Daily
"'Why is The McGill Daily?'
Asked the pessimist sourly.
'Thank God," said the optimist gaily,
'That it isn't hourly!'"
- A.J.M. Smith, The Blasted Pine, 1967
The McGill Daily, at one time the oldest daily student newspaper in the Commonwealth, has been the training ground for generations of journalists since its inception in 1911.
Currently the second-largest student newspaper in Canada and the most widely read, The Daily has a weekly circulation of 28,000 together with its francophone sister publication, Le Délit. The Daily began as a broadsheet that focused mainly on sports news. Its evolution has taken many directions. It has taken courageous stands over the years, such as publishing a special issue for International Women's Day in the late 1970s, that were ridiculed at the time but later embraced by the mainstream media.
The Daily has been independent from student government since 1980. It is published by the Daily Publications Society, an autonomous body whose membership includes all McGill undergraduate students.
For a copy of our constitution, click here.
A great number of famous journalists and public figures spent a good portion of their university careers at The Daily. Among those who were staff, editors, or contributors have been:
Donna Balkan, first executive director of the Centre for Investigative Journalism (now the Canadian Association of Journalists)
Mike Boone, Montreal Gazette columnist
Josh Freed, Montreal Gazette columnist
Irwin Block, Montreal Gazette reporter
Linda Gyulai, Montreal Gazette reporter
Mark Lepage, Montreal Gazette reporter
Charles Shannon, Montreal Gazette editor
Victor Dabby, Montreal Gazette editor
Leonard Cohen, musician, poet, and ladies' man
Irwin Cotler, international human rights lawyer and Member of Parliament
Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post and Time magazine columnist
Irving Layton, poet
David Levy, co-discoverer of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet
M-J Milloy, former news editor of the Montreal Hour
Phyllis Platt, executive director of arts & entertainment at the CBC
Enn Raudsepp, director of journalism at Concordia University
Judy Rebick, social activist and co-host Face Off on CBC Newsworld
Julian Sher, producer the fifth estate CBC-TV
Mark Starowicz, head of documentaries at CBC
Ian Urquhart, Queen's Park columnist, The Toronto Star
Andrew Phillips, editor-in-chief, The Montreal Gazette
Jan Wong, columnist for The Globe and Mail
Barbara Yaffe, Vancouver Sun columnist
Heidi Hollinger, World-famous photographer for her work with Russian politicians
William Weintraub, author
George Radwanski, CBC televison producer
Robert Lantos, movie mogul
Frederick Lowy, Rector of Concordia University
Kevin Siu, Publisher of Shift Magazine
Sonia Verma, reporter at Canadian Press
Jason Chow, reporter at The Financial Post
Ben Errett, arts editor at The National Post
J. Kelly Nestruck, arts reporter at The National Post
Phillip Todd, managing editor at Maisonneuve magazine
Are you a former Dailyite who's not on this list? E-mail us at coordinating [at] mcgilldaily.com
The Daily's Statement of Principles
2.1 The fundamental goal of The McGill Daily shall be to serve as a critical and constructive forum for the exchange of ideas and information about McGill University and related communities.
2.2 Within this optic, the staff of The Daily recognizes that all events and issues are inherently political, involving relations of social and economic power. Further, we recognize that at present power is unevenly distributed, especially (but not solely) on the basis of gender, age, social class, race, sexuality, religion, disability, and cultural identity. We also recognize that keeping silent about this situation helps to perpetuate inequality. To help correct these inequities, to the best of its staff’s abilities, The Daily should depict and analyze power relations accurately in its coverage.
2.3 As an autonomous student newspaper, relatively free from commercial and other controls, The Daily can best serve its purposes by examining issues and events most media ignore. In particular, it should deal with the role post-secondary education plays in contructing and maintaining the current order. It should also assist students and other groups working for change in a critical framework, with the aim of empowering and giving a voice to individuals and communities marginalized on the basis of the criteria mentioned in section 2.2. The Daily’s methods should be both educative and active, and determined democratically by its staff.
2.4 Finally, we recognise that The Daily must remain accessible to the student community it comes from, and should abide by an ethic of fairness while maintaining its autonomy.
The Daily's Comment Policy
The Daily's new site allows viewers to post comments in accordance with the following policy.
In allowing comments, The McGill Daily seeks to promote open and sincere debate, and provide readers with an open forum to discuss ideas among themselves, and with the staff and editors of the Daily. In order to promote open debate while acknowledging our responsibility for everything that appears under the McGill Daily name, the following restrictions will be enforced on all comments on this site. Comments in contradiction with these guidelines may be deleted at the sole discretion of the editorial board as represented by the web editor.
The Daily Prohibits:
Any comment not complying with the McGill Daily's code of ethics, which bans (in part) content which expresses "racial, sexual, and socioeconomic bias or prejudice," as well as content which is libelous;
Any comment which contains a link to a site in contravention of the McGill Daily's code of ethics;
Any comment whose primary purpose is commercial;
Any comment which is wholly unrelated to the content of the article or posting to which it is attached;
Any comment which duplicates exactly another comment on mcgilldaily.com, regardless of ownership;
Any comment The McGill Daily knows to be plagiarized.
Any comment the editorial board deems inappropriate, such as comments linking to "shock sites" or comments extolling violence.
Any comment which causes a page on our site to render improperly.