The Chautauquan Daily
PO Box 1095, Chautauqua, NY, 14722 / Editorial: 716.357.6205 / Business: 716.357.6206

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"In a media world virtually atomized by electronic devices, a world taken over by commentators and gossips of every stripe, The Daily gives you well-grounded, comprehensive coverage of ideas you care about at considerable length."

C. Fraser Smith
"Extra! Extra! Back to the future of newspapers"
The Baltimore Sun, Aug. 18, 2005

The Chautauquan Daily is the official newspaper of the Chautauqua Institution. It is a community newspaper distributed six days a week during the summer season by carriers to subscribers at their homes within the Institution. It is also sold by hawkers on Bestor Plaza each summer morning as well as mailed to subscribers. The newspaper is written and assembled at Chautauqua and sent to an off-site printer who returns the finished publication to the Institution very early the following day.

The newspaper began as The Chautauquan Assembly Herald in 1876, two years after the founding of the Chautauqua Institution. Since then, it has continuously served Chautauquans with information about current events and as the archival record. The newsroom has been a newswriting and reporting training camp for well-known journalists such as investigative reporter Ida Tarbell and current Time magazine editor-at-large Nancy Gibbs.

The Daily covers as many events as possible during the nine-week summer season. Reporters and photographers fill its pages with news, feature stories and daily up-to-date previews of the day's activities. The seasonal staff are people who apply to be a part of the Chautauqua experience as reporters, photographers, copy editors and page designers. Their mission is to help all Chautauquans, first-timers and those with multi-generation backgrounds, know about as many speakers, programs, entertainment and special events as possible. The staff each year is a mix of newcomers and veterans.

The 2009 newsroom staff ranged in age from 19 to 80 years, with talented, experienced interns from Kent State University, Ohio University, Carnegie Mellon, Miami University of Ohio, St. Bonaventure University and University of North Carolina. Other staff members included a university media teacher, retired newspeople, freelance journalists, a retired university professor, a former U.S. Peace Corps volunteer, a retired social worker and a retired library director.

Meet the Editor

Matt Ewalt is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa., and previously worked as an editor at a daily newspaper in northwest Pennsylvania. He is building the 2010 newsroom staff right now and is looking for reporters, copy editors, page designers and photographers.

Published by Chautauqua Institution, PO Box 1095, Chautauqua, NY 14722, daily, Monday through Saturday, for a period of nine weeks, June 26 through August 29, 2010. The Institution is a not-for-profit organization, incorporated and chartered under the laws of the state of New York.