About The Daily Orange
The Daily Orange is an independent, nonprofit newspaper published in Syracuse, New York. The paper was first published in 1903 and went independent in 1971. The editorial content of The D.O. is entirely run by Syracuse University students, with no oversight from the university. The D.O. receives no funding from SU, relying instead on advertising revenue and donations.
The D.O.’s online coverage is 24/7, including when SU is on break. The print product is printed on Monday and Thursday when SU classes are in session and distributed to over 200 locations around the SU campus and greater Syracuse community. The paper has 3,000,000 story views during publishing months.
Business office hours: Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. during the Syracuse University school year. Summer hours vary.
Our Mission
The Daily Orange exists to serve our readers by gathering and sharing factual, relevant information with diligence and care. Through independent student journalism, we strive to share truthful, accurate and fair stories from the Syracuse and Syracuse University community, with a focus on amplifying the voices of community members. As an entirely student-run newsroom, The D.O. also aims to be a place where students can learn and gain experience in reporting, editing and telling stories across textual, visual and audio platforms.
Our Values
Community, Curiosity and Respect – The D.O. exists to serve our community, and we focus on amplifying the voices of its members through journalism. We seek two-way communication between ourselves and the rest of the community so that we report on topics that community members care about and share information that they need to know. Our respect for the community shapes the way we tell its stories, and we have respect for the people whose stories we tell and the topics we cover. We treat our sources, readers and each other with respect throughout the process of reporting, writing and editing a story — in our interviews, interactions, ethical decisions and coverage. Curiosity also drives our work and is present in every step of pursuing and editing a story. We persistently seek the truth, ask questions and look for different perspectives, angles and story ideas.
Independence, Justice and Accountability – Since we became independent from Syracuse University in 1971, The Daily Orange has remained intent on using our independence to critically examine the university and ensure that the information we share is accurate, truthful and unbiased. We actively seek to ensure everyone’s voice is heard, especially those who don’t typically have the means to share their stories or the audience to listen to their words. We hold those around us accountable for their actions, and we also hold ourselves accountable when we fall short of our best.
Diversity, Inclusion and Representation – The Daily Orange continuously works to improve the diversity of our newsroom and the stories we tell. We acknowledge that our newsroom will be at its best when it represents the diversity of the community it serves but that we have not reached that point yet. We work to improve our newsroom’s diversity by surveying the diversity of our staff, analyzing our coverage’s representation of marginalized communities and gathering insight and feedback from our readers, while also publishing semesterly diversity reports to hold ourselves accountable in ensuring such change happens in our newsroom.
Guest Column, Letter to the Editor, Personal Essay Policies
Guest columns are opinion pieces centered around issues relevant to the Syracuse University, SUNY-ESF or greater Syracuse community. Letters to the editor are short remarks directed in response to specific content published in The D.O. in print or online, or in response to action by the publication itself and on-campus events. Personal essays are works that describe the writer’s lived experiences or otherwise unique points of view.
Submissions will be published at the discretion of the editor-in-chief and managing editor. Any links to third-party websites or extended versions of the letter will also be published at the discretion of the editor-in-chief and managing editor. All columns will be edited for style, grammar and content at the discretion of The D.O. editing staff.
To have a submission printed in The D.O. and published on dailyorange.com, please follow the guidelines listed below:
- Submissions must be at least 300 words and no longer than 1000 words. Submissions should be emailed to opinion@dailyorange.com.
- You must be associated with Syracuse University, SUNY-ESF, the campus community or the Syracuse area.
- Include your full name, year and/or position on campus, if applicable.
- Include a phone number where you can be reached. This is for verification purposes only and will not be printed.
- Include supporting materials for any facts you cite that are not common knowledge — preferably as links to reputable websites.
- Guest columns and letters to the editors should pertain in topic to the Syracuse area. Personal essays should relate to the individual experiences and perspectives of the writer.
- Columns should not include any personal information pertaining to other people unless it is relevant to the topic at hand, which will be decided at the discretion of The D.O. editing staff.
Letters to the editors must follow the guidelines above, but letters must be limited to 400 words or less.
How to join our team
If you are a Syracuse University or SUNY-ESF student interested in contributing to The D.O. on either its advertising or editorial teams, please email editor@dailyorange.com.
Buy Photos
Photos can be purchased for $100 for one-time use and $175 for unlimited use. Please email editor@dailyorange.com with the following information: Name, email address, phone number, link to photo and description of use.
Corrections
Please email editor@dailyorange.com to report a correction.
Takedown Policy
The D.O. will consider all requests to remove old content that prevents a person from moving on from past arrests and misdeeds. The D.O. will also remove content if there is a compelling legal justification.
The D.O. staff believes that unnecessarily altering the contents of dailyorange.com would be a disservice to our readers because it would prevent the website from accurately documenting history as it happens. However, we recognize the right to be forgotten after arrest charges have been dropped, or many years after committing a minor crime.
If your request is granted, we may remove mention of you from the article in question, or remove the article entirely. We will do our best to also update or remove the page from search engines.
If you feel that your request meets this criteria, please fill out the form below or at this link. You may email editor@dailyorange.com with any questions about your request.
The Daily Orange Board of Directors
The D.O. Board of Directors guides the corporation through short- and long-term financial and strategic decisions directly pertaining to the success and longevity of The Daily Orange.
| Board Members | |
|---|---|
| Stephen Dockery | chair |
| Beth Fritzinger | vice chair |
| Anish Vasudevan | editor-in-chief |
| Kyle Chouinard | managing editor |
| Stefanie Mitchell | digital managing editor |
| Kevin Ross | business manager |
| Chris Ern | advertising manager |
| Ally Ferretti | fundraising manager |
| David Curtis | alumnus |
| Meredith Goldstein | alumna |
| David Franecki | alumnus |
| Seema Mehta | alumna |
| Katie McInerney | alumna |
| Scott Bisang | alumnus |
| Pete Waack | professional |
Editorial Board
The Daily Orange Editorial Board serves as the voice of the paper in discussions that concern Syracuse University and the greater Syracuse community. The editorial board — which consists of The D.O.’s head editors as well as members of its staff and senior staff — aims to contribute the perspectives of students to conversations that are often centered on local policies, news events and administrative actions. If there is an issue you would like the editorial board to weigh in on, please pitch your idea here.
Learn more about The D.O. Editorial Board.
Story Ideas
Do you have a story idea or event coming up that you’d like to share with The D.O.? Just fill out this simple form and our editors will be notified of the story.
Documenting Hate
The Daily Orange has partnered with ProPublica to report on bias and hate incidents that go unreported. If you’ve experienced or witnessed hate at SU or SUNY-ESF, share it with us here.
Commenting
The D.O. is a platform for discussion among our readers. We offer the platform for readers to comment on stories to further the discussion of the story topic. The D.O. reserves the right to remove comments that do not further that discussion, as determined by the editor-in-chief and managing editor, and also reserves the right to disable comments completely.
Copyright
The D.O. is published weekdays during the Syracuse University academic year by The Daily Orange Corp., 230 Euclid Ave., Syracuse, NY 13210. All contents Copyright 2021 by The Daily Orange Corp. and may not be reprinted without the expressed written permission of the editor-in-chief. The Daily Orange is in no way a subsidy or associated with Syracuse University. All contents © 2021 The Daily Orange Corporation.
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