The Daily Eastern News staff won 34 awards at the Illinois Collegiate Press Association this past weekend in Chicago.
The staff beat its previous record of 28 awards set at last year's ICPA in both...
I have been working at The News for about a year, and my experience has not been ideal.
When I first stepped into the Daily Eastern News Newsroom, I looked forward to getting involved and working on...
The staff of The Daily Eastern News won 17 awards in the annual Illinois College Press Association newspaper Saturday afternoon.
The staff won three first-place awards, including two overall awards in...
Last semester, I told you of the updates our publication would be seeing. This semester, I am proud to tell you more about where our publication is headed and what you can expect from us this semester.
A...
As 2021 comes to a close, the staff of The Daily Eastern News invites you to look back at the year through our lens.
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From its inception, The Daily Eastern News has been dedicated to covering Eastern athletics.
For more than a century, The News has been there for thrilling victories, crushing defeats and historic performances....
The Daily Eastern News has printed a daily publication with its own press since 1976 with three men leading a majority of the press runs: Mark Turk, Johnny Bough and Tom Roberts.
Turk ran...
Cassie Buchman, Former Editor-in-Chief
• December 10, 2021
There are days when I look back at my time working for the Daily Eastern News, from 2014-2018, and I don’t know how we pulled it off.
A bunch of broke college students, all from different backgrounds...
Nora Maberry, Former Editor-in-Chief
• December 10, 2021
The early and mid 2000s at the Daily Eastern News was a time of innovation.
The paper was the first college newspaper in the country to produce Podcasts, won national awards for our photo slideshows,...
Heidi Stevens, Former Editor-in-Chief
• December 10, 2021
Long before I fell in love with journalism, I fell in love with journalists. College journalists, specifically.
The campus newsroom at The Daily Eastern News was the first place I felt like I belonged....
Lola Burnham, Former Editor-in-Chief
• December 10, 2021
A lot of the news events in the 1982-83 school year would seem familiar to readers of today’s Daily Eastern News. A faculty union contract was up for ratification. Room-and-board increases were under...
In 1915, three students, Ivan Goble, Ed McGurty and Ernest Bails, banded together to create the Normal School News with the intention of covering Eastern’s football team.
Those three students, unbeknownst...
![[Thumbnail Edition] Senior tennis player Luisa Renovales Salazar hits the tennis ball with her racket at the Darling Courts at the Eastern Illinois University campus in Charleston, ILL.](https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Tennis_01_O-1-e1741807434552-1200x670.jpg)
![[Thumbnail Edition] Eastern Illinois University baseball's hitting coach and recruiting coordinator Mike Pugliese urges players on the team to increase their effort after a slow start to its pregame routine at the team's first intrasquad scrimmage of the season at O'Brien Field on Jan. 31, 2025.](https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/BB_02_O-1-e1741909628540-1200x702.jpg)
![[Thumbnail Edition] Senior right-handed pitcher Tyler Conklin pitching in the Eastern Illinois University baseball team's intrasquad scrimmage at O'Brien Field in Charleston, Illinois on Jan. 31.](https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/TC_01_O-e1741567955534-1200x669.jpg)
![[Thumbnail Edition] Senior, forward Macy McGlone finds an open teammate to pass the ball too during the game against the Tennessee State Tigers 69-49, in Groniger Arena on the Eastern Illinois University campus, Charleston Ill.](https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/WBB_02_O-1-e1741228987440-1200x692.jpg)
![E[Thumbnail Edition] Eastern Illinois softball freshman utility player Abbi Hatton deciding to throw the softball to home plate in a fielding drill during softball practice at the field house in Groniger arena on Tuesday Feb. 11.](https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/SB_03_O-e1741208880750-1-e1741209739187-1200x815.jpg)
![The Weeklings lead guitarist John Merjave [Left] and guitarist Bob Burger [Right] perform "I Am the Walrus" at The Weeklings Beatles Bash concert in the Dvorak Concert Hall on Saturday.](https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/WL_01_O-1200x900.jpg)
![The team listens as its captain Patience Cox [Number 25] lectures to them about what's appropriate to talk about through practice during "The Wolves" on Thursday, March 6, in the Black Box Theatre in the Doudna Fine Arts Center in Charleston, Ill.](https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/WolvesPre-12-1200x800.jpg)
