Washington Square News is the weekly student newspaper of New York University. It is the companion publication for NYU along with NYU Local, and the undergraduate equivalent of Washington Square Review. The paper, better known as WSN, has a circulation of 10,000 and an estimated 40,000 readers online. It is published in print on Monday, in addition to online publication Tuesday through Friday during the fall and spring semesters, with additional issues published in the summer. It serves the NYU, Greenwich Village, and East Village communities in Manhattan, New York City. WSN is run solely by NYU students, with the paper's senior staff mostly composed ofundergraduates. Its offices are located at 75 Third Ave. It serves the student population by helping with opportunities for reporting, writing, editing, coding, photography, video production, design, illustration and business. The paper is editorially and financially independent from the university and is solely responsible in selling advertisements to fund its production, with an average cost of US$350,000 annually. The term for the positions of editor-in-chief and managing editor is one calendar year, beginning in the spring semester and ending after the fall semester.
History
The newspaper was born in 1973 as the result of NYU's merging of their two campus weeklies: the University Heights campus in the Bronx had published The Heights Daily News, while the Washington Square campus in Lower Manhattan originally published The Washington Square Journal. Between 2003 and 2004, WSN debuted the 'Bobst Boy' story, which went on to become an overnight national sensation. In 2000, WSN launched its website . In 2017, WSN launched its podcast, "Newsflash," and then rebranded the following year as "Washington Square Noise." In 2018, WSN launched its digital weekly magazine "Under the Arch."
Current Staff
Editor-in-Chief: Cole Stallone Managing Editor: Abby Hofstetter Deputy Managing Editors: Ronni Husmann, Paul Kim and Anna-Dmitry Muratova Creative Directors: Deborah Alalade and Charlie Dodge Multimedia Editor: Alexandra Chan News Editors: Lisa Cochran and Emily Mason Opinion Editor: Jun Sung Culture Editor: Bella Gil Arts Editors: Kaylee DeFreitas and Ethan Zack Sports Editor: Arvind Sriram Under the Arch Managing Editor: Guru Ramanathan Copy Chiefs: Daija Dewberry and Dana Sun Social Media and Marketing Editor: Vanessa Handy Business Manager: Mel Bautista Director of Sales: Yejin Chang Director of Marketing and Logistics: Mira Silviera
Awards
In 2009, reporters Marc Beja and Adam Playford won 1st place in the category of "Best News Story" from the New York State Press Association and National Winner in the category of "In-depth reporting" from the Society of Professional Journalists. At the same time Alvin Chang won best columnist. Washington Square News won an Associated Collegiate PressPacemaker award in 2004, that same year it was awarded the title of Overall Best Newspaper. It won the Pacemaker Award again in 2019. In 2003, the paper won seven first-place awards in the Division 1 "Better College Newspaper Contest" of the New York State Press Association.
