In the 1970s, as always, Daily Eastern News reporters were busy day after day with breaking and hard news coverage, but some staff members thought arts and entertainment stories were not being covered...
Throughout the past 100 years, The Daily Eastern News has been the training ground for quite a few students who went on to become big names in the journalism field.
One of those names is Chris Sundheim,...
Student newspaper has been housed in various locations around campus
November 4, 2015
According to John Ryan, former adviser for The Daily Eastern News, The News has been housed in at least nine different locations across campus since its founding in 1915.
The Normal School News was founded...
Created during a time before the likes of Twitter and WordPress, the Web presence of The Daily Eastern News has seen different versions during its 14-year existence stored on a server.
The first iteration...
Strange stories, oddities entertain News readership through the years
November 4, 2015
The Daily Eastern News has covered some of the most hard-hitting, breaking news events at Eastern since the newspaper’s inception in 1915.
The News has covered the hiring of presidents, budget crises,...
Reminiscing and reconnecting will be the focus of the weekend as The Daily Eastern News celebrates 100 years of publication.
More than 200 alumni are set to participate in the festivities, which include...
Throughout its 100-year history, The Daily Eastern News has had roughly 10 minority editors-in-chief, but despite the expected racial barriers, some said their ethnicities did not affect the way they...
As an Army Air Corps soldier in the final years of World War II, Robert Sterling was in charge of closing down military bases and found that reading and writing helped to pass the time.
“First of all,...
Page by page, night after night, Eastern’s press puts news in readers’ hands
November 4, 2015
The smell of ink wafts out from the pressroom in Buzzard Hall, while across the hall, the staff of The Daily Eastern News puts the finishing touches on the next day’s edition.
Negatives of the pages...
