The Daily Pennsylvanian is the University of Pennsylvania’s independent student media organization. We cover the Penn and the Philadelphia metro area.
Office: 4015 Walnut St. Philadelphia, Pa. 19104-6198
Phone: (215) 422-4640
Fax: (215) 422-4646
For detailed staff contact information, including names, phone extensions, and email addresses, see our staff directory and contact page.
For information on how you can get involved with the DP, Inc., see Join the DP!
For an overview of our Journalistic Ethics Policy, see this page.
Incorporated as a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation in 1984, the DP, Inc. is a student-run media organization and receives no funding from the University. The DP, Inc. publishes the DP newspaper, 34th Street Magazine, and Under the Button, as well as six newsletters: DP Daybreak, Voices of Penn, Quaker Nation, The Toast, Street Sweeper, and Penn, Unbuttoned.
The DP, Inc. consists of two principal divisions — Editorial and Business.
The Board of Editors is responsible for the content of the DP and its publications. Executive Editor Jasmine Ni heads the Board of Editors. The heads of each editorial department within the DP, Street, and Under the Button are members of the board, as well as the design, social media, photo, copy, video, and podcast editors.
The Business Board is responsible for all the business affairs of the DP, including advertising, ad design, technology, marketing analytics & promotions, circulation, and accounting. Business Manager Ranvith Adulla heads the board. The heads of the business departments, as well as the Executive Director, are members of the board.
Corporate decisions are made by a ten-member Board of Directors responsible for the overall operation and well-being of the corporation. The board concentrates on long-term planning, major decisions, and the annual budget. Five student directors and four DP alumni sit on the board, along with the Executive Director, a non-voting member.
The DP, Inc. also has an Executive Board, which is responsible for day-to-day operations and issues that span both the Board of Editors and Business Boards. Nine students sit on the board, along with three professional staff members, who serve as non-voting members. President Neema Baddam heads the Executive Board and chairs the Board of Directors.
The Daily Pennsylvanian
The DP is the independent student newspaper of Penn. About 116 mornings each school year, Penn students, faculty, and staff turn to the DP as their source of campus news, city news, and sports coverage. The DP exists to inform the Penn community of relevant news and opinion while providing a training vehicle for students.
First published in 1885, under the name “The Pennsylvanian,” the DP is perennially recognized as one of the top college newspapers in the country. The paper has been published daily since 1894 — except from May 1943 to November 1945, when it was not published because of World War II. In 1962, the DP broke away from the student government and became independent. At the same time, the paper merged with the Pennsylvania News, the University’s women’s newspaper. In 1984, The DP became a corporation, formally completing the separation of any editorial or financial control by the University.
More than 250 students work for the DP in the Business and Editorial departments. Editors and business managers are elected each December by the outgoing board and serve for a term of one year. The student board is responsible for all editorial and financial decisions of the newspaper. Three professional staff members provide continuity, advice, and training for the student staff, and maintain operations during vacation periods.
34th Street Magazine
Street, the DP’s arts and entertainment monthly magazine, was first published in 1968. Today, Street is read by thousands of Philadelphia students, faculty, and residents in print every month and online.
Street takes great pride in being Penn’s only source of arts and culture journalism, as well as a home for long-form investigative features relevant to the Penn community and Philadelphians at large. Like the DP, Street is produced entirely by students. The Street Editorial Board is run by Editor-in-Chief Nishanth Bhargava and made up of ten section-specific content editors, a design director, a digital managing editor, and print managing editor.
Under the Button
UTB is Penn’s news satire publication, known for its signature memes and snark. UTB was founded in 2008 after growing out of Street and has become a campus fixture for highlighting the pulse of student life. Sometimes their topical articles get picked up by the Huffington Post; sometimes they get retweeted by Wawa. Such is the influence of UTB in University City and beyond. UTB is just that cool. Its board is made of about seven editors and over a dozen contributing writers. Send them tips, tips@underthebutton.com, about the funny — or juicy — things you see and hear at Penn and email Editor-in-Chief Jack Kramer to get involved as a contributor!
Newsletters
The DP, Inc. publishes six newsletters: DP Daybreak, Voices of Penn, Quaker Nation, The Toast, Street Sweeper, and Penn, Unbuttoned.
Production of newsletters are overseen by Executive Editor Jasmine Ni. Please send all feedback to newsletter@thedp.com.
TheDP.com
The DP’s website made its debut in October 1995. Originally called DP Online, and later DP Interactive, the website moved the print edition of the DP into a more interactive and colorful experience in the early days of the web.
The website became theDP.com in fall 2009. Today’s site offers more than a decade of the DP’s full-text archives and interactive features that go far beyond the content of the print edition. Have more questions? Read our online FAQ.
Donor disclosure policy
The DP, Inc. is committed to ensuring transparency with our readership regarding our funding sources. Accepting contributions does not imply endorsement of any donor or their products, services, or views. As an independent student paper and a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that relies on donor support to sustain our operations, we remain fully committed to upholding our editorial independence from all external entities.
All donations are accepted with the understanding that editorial decisions rest solely with the newsroom, and that such gifts will not influence the reporting or editorial direction of our student staff. Our Board of Directors reserves the right to decline donations from sources that may present a conflict of interest or compromise our editorial independence.
All of our revenue sources and expenses are publicly disclosed in our Form 990 filings, which you may access at this link.
