Last year, The Daily Eastern News ran its last daily print edition due to changes within the journalism department.
Several factors weighed in on the decision; Eastern’s reduced enrollment led to...
As 2021 comes to a close, the staff of The Daily Eastern News invites you to look back at the year through our lens.
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From its inception, The Daily Eastern News has been dedicated to covering Eastern athletics.
For more than a century, The News has been there for thrilling victories, crushing defeats and historic performances....
The Daily Eastern News has printed a daily publication with its own press since 1976 with three men leading a majority of the press runs: Mark Turk, Johnny Bough and Tom Roberts.
Turk ran...
Cassie Buchman, Former Editor-in-Chief
• December 10, 2021
There are days when I look back at my time working for the Daily Eastern News, from 2014-2018, and I don’t know how we pulled it off.
A bunch of broke college students, all from different backgrounds...
Nora Maberry, Former Editor-in-Chief
• December 10, 2021
The early and mid 2000s at the Daily Eastern News was a time of innovation.
The paper was the first college newspaper in the country to produce Podcasts, won national awards for our photo slideshows,...
Heidi Stevens, Former Editor-in-Chief
• December 10, 2021
Long before I fell in love with journalism, I fell in love with journalists. College journalists, specifically.
The campus newsroom at The Daily Eastern News was the first place I felt like I belonged....
Lola Burnham, Former Editor-in-Chief
• December 10, 2021
A lot of the news events in the 1982-83 school year would seem familiar to readers of today’s Daily Eastern News. A faculty union contract was up for ratification. Room-and-board increases were under...
In 1915, three students, Ivan Goble, Ed McGurty and Ernest Bails, banded together to create the Normal School News with the intention of covering Eastern’s football team.
Those three students, unbeknownst...
The day I’ve been dreading is here: The Daily Eastern News will be going down to printing once a week.
Since my freshman year I have had two goals; first to be the Editor-in-Chief of this publication...
Dann Gire, Former Editor-in-Chief
• December 10, 2021
The early 1970s brought three sweeping changes to the EIU journalism world:
1) Eastern dumped the quarter system for the new-fangled semester system, prompting administrators to sound like John Cleese...
The Daily Eastern News has existed in some capacity since Nov. 5, 1915, whether it was called the Normal School News, Teachers College News, Eastern Teachers News, Eastern State News, or the Eastern...
