{{Short description|Magazine at Yale University}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox magazine | title = The New Journal | logo = TNJ Nameplate.png | logo_size = | image_file = TNJ cover.webp | image_size = | image_caption = Cover of <em>The New Journal</em>, September Issue, 2024 | editor = Kelly Kong and Adele Haeg | editor_title = Editors-in-Chief | previous_editor = | staff_writer = | photographer = | category = Student publication | frequency = Five per year | format = | circulation = | publisher = | paid_circulation = | unpaid_circulation = | circulation_year = | total_circulation = | founder = Daniel Yergin and Peter Yeager | founded = 1967 | firstdate = <!-- {{Start date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | finaldate = <!-- {{End date|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | finalnumber = | company = The New Journal at Yale, Inc. | country = United States | based = New Haven, Connecticut | language = English | website = {{URL|http://www.thenewjournalatyale.com}} | issn = 0028-6001 | oclc = }} '''''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.<ref name="YDN72">{{cite news |title=Money Problems Stop New Journal |date=11 February 1972 |url=http://digital.library.yale.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/yale-ydn/id/135082/rec/44 |accessdate=23 February 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=IHS Experts |url=http://www.ihs.com/capabilities/experts/Daniel-Yergin.aspx |publisher=IHS|accessdate=31 March 2012}}</ref>
''The New Journal'' publishes five issues per year.<ref>{{cite web|title=About.|date=13 November 2009 |url=http://www.thenewjournalatyale.com/about/|publisher=The New Journal|accessdate=31 March 2012}}</ref> 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.<ref name="YDN72" /><ref>{{cite web |title=About |date=13 November 2009 |url=http://www.thenewjournalatyale.com/about/ |publisher=The New Journal |accessdate=31 March 2012}}</ref>
== 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''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://apupublicaffairs.wordpress.com/2016/02/02/buzzfeeds-ben-smith-establishes-sites-credibility/|title=BuzzFeed editor-in-chief establishes site's credibility|last=reginaender|date=2016-02-03|website=APU Public Affairs Journalism|language=en|access-date=2019-12-07}}</ref>
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== External links == * {{Official website|http://www.thenewjournalatyale.com/}} * [http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1967/12/2/yales-new-journal-pthe-only-student/ "Yale's New Journal,"] published in ''The Crimson,'' December 2, 1967
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