The Daily Free Press, an independent student newspaper at Boston University, began publication in 1970. On May 1, two newspapers merged into The Daily Free Press as students were responding to the Kent State shootings with a violent protest. Final exams and graduation were cancelled, and The Daily Free Press captured the moment in its first issue. It is now the publication at BU with the longest continuing run.
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The Daily Free Press, an independent student newspaper at Boston University, began publication in 1970. On May 1, two newspapers merged into The Daily Free Press as students were responding to the Kent State shootings with a violent protest. Final exams and graduation were cancelled, and The Daily Free Press captured the moment in its first issue. It is now the publication at BU with the longest continuing run.
The Daily Free Press (commonly called The FreeP) had published an issue every instructional day since its formation until February 13, 2009. Earlier that week, the paper announced it would discontinue its Friday print publication due to the nation's fiscal crisis. It is distributed in most instructional buildings and dormitories around the BU campus. As of January 2006, circulation was 4,000 on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and 9,000 on Thursday.
The Daily Free Press has won numerous awards for its reporting, including the Columbia Press Association's Gold Medal Award for...
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