The Daily Campus - News

News

The News Department's staff actively scouts the campus for the latest news. As is the case with most departments, a weekly meeting is held between the News Editor, Associate News Editor and writers. It is during these meetings that story ideas are discussed, planned and assigned. Any new writers are invited to join at these meetings. Most issues have multiple student-written articles, supplemented by wire reports.

Layout of the News section is done on a nightly basis by a rotating number of page designers. The News designer is responsible for laying out the pages of the section, and four copy editors (two in the afternoon and two at night) are responsible for editing the stories and preparing them for publication. Once a page is complete, it is printed out and edited by the copy editors again, and then is looked at by the Managing Editor and/or the Associate Managing Editor. Each of the section editors (excluding Commentary and Photography) take one night a week to design their section, and the Associate Managing Editor often designs the Commentary section.

In December 2005, when controversial conservative commentator Ann Coulter visited UConn at the invitation of the College Republicans, The Daily Campus received the only one-on-one interview with Coulter and was the only outlet with pictures from inside the theater. All other media outlets were not allowed inside. The speech itself was marked by protests on campus, alternative "hate free" events and was cut short after about 15 minutes when a prank recording of "Kyle's Mom Is A Big Fat Bitch" from the TV show South Park was played over the loudspeakers.