Irving R. Templeton
Newspaper publisher.1
About
The Daily Orange, commonly referred to as The D.O., is an independent student newspaper published in Syracuse, New York. The paper is free, and its print edition is published once a week during the Syracuse University academic year.
The D.O. was one of the first college papers to become fully independent from its parent college. Its alumni work at nearly every major newspaper in the nation — The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, New York Post, The Boston Globe, Star Tribune, The Dallas Morning News, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution — in a variety of reporting, editing, design and photography roles.
Publisher reported circulation for 2018 was 6,000 copies, with an online circulation of about 3,000,000 during publishing months. The paper's content is published online daily and the print edition is published every Thursday during the academic year.
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Companies
- Orange Publishing CompanyFounder6
Early life and education
- Date not recordedSyracuse University3
Early years
The first copy of the newspaper was published on September 15, 1903. Irving R. Templeton, co-founder of the Orange Publishing Company, served as the founding editor of the newspaper. Prior to the D.O., there were only 18 colleges and universities represented by a daily college paper.
The newspaper set up operations in a red barn located at 806 Croton Ave, and accepted advertising. From 1903 until at least 1922, a copy cost two cents and the annual subscription cost $2.50 annually, and all students received mandatory subscription.
Syracuse was the third university after Brown and Columbia to have a printing shop owned and operated by students and the first university to own it completely. The printing plant was owned by a corporation known as the Orange Publishing Company, the directors and stockholders of which were all students. The newspaper even manufactured its own paper with the help of SU students from the College of Forestry.
The D.O. operated as the official university paper but often had fractious relationship with the administration.
In 1910, The D.O. published an issue that was managed by an all-female team, which later became an annual tradition. In 1939, Elizabeth C. Donnelly, of Syracuse, became the first female to be elected the editor-in-chief.
In 1927, The D.O. started carrying news of the world affairs through the United News Press service making it one the few college papers to do so.
In 1933, it was ranked amongst the best college newspapers.
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Career
- Date not recordedFounded Orange Publishing Company4
- Date not recordedFounded The Daily Orange5
Legal issues and controversies
CIA lawsuit
In the early 1980s, The Daily Orange was a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The D.O. had sued the CIA to obtain documents relating to alleged CIA activity on campus during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Syracuse lost the case when district judge Howard G. Munson ruled that the issues were exempt from disclosure.
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- 1WikidataIrving R. Templeton on Wikidata
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