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The New Journal

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The New Journal is a magazine at Yale University that publishes creative nonfiction about Yale and New Haven. Inspired by New Journalism writers like Tom Wolfe and Gay Talese, the student-run publication was established by Daniel Yergin and Peter Yeager in 1967 to publish investigative pieces and in-depth interviews. It publishes five issues per year. The magazine is distributed free of charge at Yale and in New Haven and was among the first university publications not to charge a subscription fee.

Notable alumni

  • James Bennet, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic
  • Emily Bazelon, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, former senior editor for Slate, and senior research fellow at Yale Law School
  • Richard Bradley, editor of Worth magazine
  • Jay Carney, White House press secretary under Barack Obama
  • Richard Conniff, writer of books, articles, and television screenplays about nature; winner of the 1997 National Magazine Award and a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship
  • Elisha Cooper, American writer and children's book author
  • Andy Court, producer, 60 Minutes
  • Dana Goodyear, staff writer at The New Yorker and co-founder of Figment
  • Paul Goldberger, Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic and Contributing Editor for Vanity Fair
  • Darren Gersh, Washington, D.C. bureau chief for Nightly Business Report
  • Charlotte Howard, healthcare correspondent, The Economist
  • Tom Isler, documentary filmmaker
  • Anya Kamenetz, writer, Fast Company; author, DIY U and Generation Debt
  • Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Hampton Sides, journalist and historian; editor-at-large of Outside magazine; author, Hellhound on His Trail, Ghost Soldiers, Blood and Thunder
  • John Swansburg, deputy editor for Slate
  • Jessica Winter, business and technology editor for Slate

    • References

    The New Journal Wikipedia
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