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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


As I look back on my time at The Daily, I can’t say I won’t have my regrets. I’ll always wonder what my life would be like if I’d taken a different path at any number of intersections. But I know I won’t ever regret the fact that I found a reason to show up, day in and day out.

Fulton: Find your reason to show up every day

June 5, 2023

I spent much of my sophomore winter in a bad place. Sure, emotionally — we were in the throes of a global pandemic, who wasn’t going through it? But in this sense, I meant it literally.  That quarter,...

Spoto: Try something different

Spoto: Try something different

June 5, 2023

When I think about The Daily, my first memory isn’t of chasing down city politicians on election night. Or of combing through government documents to edit investigations line by line.  It’s of...

"There were instances when I seriously contemplated accepting a journalism offer and declining BCG, simply to remain in my comfort zone and pursue something familiar." Rayna Song

Song: My choice between journalism and consulting

June 5, 2023

During my last 48 hours in Evanston, I found myself penning my senior column. Lying on the sun deck at The Link, basking in the warmth of a sun-drenched day with temperatures in the 80s, I reminisced about...

A two part graphic, of the artist Before and After the Daily Northwestern. In the before image, the girl has many thoughts, a youthful glow, cool shirt and gleeful smile. The after photo has the artist with no thoughts, haggard af, even cooler shirt and broken spirit.

Yeda: XOXO, MEHER!!!!

June 5, 2023

There is so much to say about The Daily Northwestern — yet somehow I don’t think I could ever capture it all into words. Sleepless nights spent editing, drawing, and laying out pages in the digital...

No matter how much strife or homework or fatigue you had, being surrounded by your friends grinding through those last few event stories that came in at 11 p.m. was part of the beauty of the Daily.

Aizin: Surviving the Norris Midnight Scaries

June 5, 2023

Realistically, Norris University Center is not where you want to be at midnight on a Tuesday night. Or any night really.  However, as almost every staffer of The Daily Northwestern knows, nights like...

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