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 Seal of "The Harvard Crimson" | |
 Front page of The Harvard Crimson on September 8, 2017 | |
| Type | Student newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| School | Harvard University |
| Owner(s) | The Harvard Crimson, Inc. |
| President | J. Sellers Hill |
| Managing editor | Miles J. Herszenhorn
Elias J. Schisgall (Associate Managing Editor) Claire Yuan (Associate Managing Editor) |
| Business Manager | Matthew M. Doctoroff |
| Founded | January 24, 1873 |
| Headquarters | Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| ISSN | 1932-4219 |
| Website | thecrimson.com Archives: 1882–present |
The Harvard Crimson is the student newspaper at Harvard University, an Ivy League university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The newspaper was founded in 1873,[1] and is run entirely by Harvard College undergraduate students.
- ^ Brubacher, John S.; Willis Rudy (1997). Higher Education in Transition. Transaction Publishers. p. 137. ISBN 1-56000-917-9.
After the Civil War ... on almost every campus a publication was established which modeled its form, content, and purpose on regular daily newspapers. The Yale Daily News, first to be founded, is still in operation. The Harvard Crimson began in 1873 as a more newsy rival of The Advocate. Ten years later, it merged with a competitor to become a daily.