The New Journal

Magazine at Yale University

*The New Journal*
Categories	Student publication
Frequency	Five per year
Founder	Daniel Yergin and Peter Yeager
Founded	1967
Company	The New Journal at Yale, Inc.
Country	United States
Based in	New Haven, Connecticut
Language	English
Website	www.thenewjournalatyale.com
ISSN	0028-6001

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.^[1]^[2] It publishes five issues per year.^[3] 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.^[1]^[4]

Notable alumni

Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize winner for Gulag: A History, staff writer for The Atlantic
James Bennet, former 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
Roger Cohn, former editor-in-chief of Mother Jones
Elisha Cooper, American writer and children's book author
Andy Court, producer, 60 Minutes
Cassie da Costa, staff writer at Vanity Fair
David Dunlap, reporter for The New York Times
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, New York Bureau Chief and Energy and Commodities Editor for The Economist
Tom Isler, documentary filmmaker
Anya Kamenetz, writer, Fast Company; author, DIY U and Generation Debt
Ellen Katz, law professor at the University of Michigan Law School
Stuart Klawans, film critic for The Nation
Brendan Koerner, contributing editor at Wired magazine
Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize winner for The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, staff writer at The New Yorker
Lawrence Lasker, screenwriter and producer, nominated for an Academy Award in 1983 for WarGames
Sarah Laskow, senior editor at The Atlantic
Samantha Power, Pulitzer Prize winner for A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, 28th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
Motoko Rich, Tokyo Bureau Chief for The New York Times
Sanjena Sathian, novelist; author, Gold Diggers
Hampton Sides, journalist and historian; editor-at-large of Outside magazine; author, Hellhound on His Trail, Ghost Soldiers, Blood and Thunder
Gabriel Snyder, former editor-in-chief of The New Republic
John Swansburg, deputy editor for Slate
Jessica Winter, business and technology editor for Slate
Ben Smith, media columnist at The New York Times, founding editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b "Money Problems Stop New Journal". 11 February 1972. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
^ "IHS Experts". IHS. Retrieved 31 March 2012.
^ "About". The New Journal. 13 November 2009. Retrieved 31 March 2012.
^ "About". The New Journal. 13 November 2009. Retrieved 31 March 2012.
^ reginaender (2016-02-03). "BuzzFeed editor-in-chief establishes site's credibility". APU Public Affairs Journalism. Retrieved 2019-12-07.