Leibenluft: Exploring the great mystery of the News
One of the greatest mysteries surrounding the Yale Daily News is surely this: How, for 130 years, have generations of Yalies been convinced to spend night after night working on a college daily?
After all, the proposition the News offers aspiring staffers has always been, to put it charitably, a bit of a tough sell. It’s not much of a pitch: Start with the most menial tasks, work dozens of hours a week for no pay, and eventually, you, too, might find your name written in small letters on something called a masthead!
But at the very least, there was always a light at the end...
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