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Editors’ Note: A semester of firsts, in review

By 132nd Editorial Board | April 28

This semester marks Brown’s first full, in-person spring semester in three years –– and, for The Herald’s 132nd Editorial Board, the first full spring semester we have ever experienced. Since we began our tenure in January, much of our coverage has documented a return to the campus we remember ...

Editors’ note: The Herald announces 132nd Editorial Board

By 131st Editorial Board | November 22

The Herald is proud to announce the members of its 132nd Editorial Board, who will oversee the paper through its 131st year.

Editors’ note: The Herald’s new website

By 131st Editorial Board | September 22

The Herald is excited to launch a newly redesigned website today. In an era when the bulk of news is consumed online, and in our first website rework since 2015, we sought to update our site’s design and enhance reader engagement by increasing its accessibility and building in more space for innovative ...

Editors’ Note: This fall, The Herald will print three times a week and publish online daily

By 131st Editorial Board | September 2

After an unprecedented summer of publishing online daily during Brown’s first-ever summer term, The Herald will print three times a week this fall semester on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays — up from the once-per-week frequency implemented in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We will continue ...

Editors’ note: Changing deadnames and pronouns

By 131st Editorial Board | May 17

In order to respect individuals’ current and lived identities, The Herald has adopted a new policy regarding requests from transgender or nonbinary individuals to replace their deadname and/or change their pronouns featured in previously published work on The Herald’s website. Upon receiving such ...

Editors' note: This summer, The Herald will publish online daily

By 131st Editorial Board | May 5

In considering the University’s three-semester calendar, our duty to serve as a current and accurate source of news for the Brown community and our desire to continue The Herald’s history of publishing every day that classes at Brown are in session, The Herald will publish content on our website ...

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Editors' Note: A socially distanced goodbye and thank you

By 130th Editorial Board | April 28

Every year, The Herald's Commencement Magazine collects the memories and reflections of the senior class. This year, that collection is inevitably shaped by the grief and loss COVID-19 has caused. Since last March, many Herald articles have sought to document the major, disparate hardships created by ...

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Editors’ Note: 2020 in review

By 131st Editorial Board | December 31

A year of loss that challenged everyone around the globe made no exception for the Brown community and The Herald’s own newsroom. In 2020, the nation faced a (still) raging pandemic and an economic recession, a racial reckoning that spurred the greatest civil rights movement in decades, hurricanes ...

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Editors’ note: The Herald announces 131st Editorial Board

By 130th Editorial Board | November 20

The Herald is proud to announce the members of its 131st Editorial Board, who will oversee the paper through its 130th year. The 131st Editorial Board will be led by Editor-in-Chief and President Kayla Guo ’22, a Public Policy concentrator from Muttontown, New York. Henry Dawson ’22, a Biology ...

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Editors' note: With a return to in-person classes, a return to limited print

By 130th Editorial Board | October 8

When we all abruptly left campus back in March, we packed up two homes: our dorms, and the office of The Herald at 195 Angell St. We did not know when we would see our friends again, or when we would be back on campus — and we certainly didn’t know when we would be able to print a paper again. In ...

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Editors’ Note: This fall, The Herald will publish online daily, print weekly

By 130th Editorial Board | August 5

The Herald has made the difficult decision to shift to a weekly print schedule for the fall semester. In the coming semester, while many University community members interact with Brown remotely, we are embracing a digital-first model, using our website as our primary news platform. The Herald will ...

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Editors' Note: For now, The Herald moves to online-only publication

By 130th Editorial Board | March 17

In light of the suspension of in-person classes that began this week, it saddens us to write that the March 13 issue of The Herald marked our last print publication of the semester. As The Herald does not print when classes are not in session, we plan to publish only breaking news online throughout ...

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Editors’ Note: The Herald's 2019 in review

By 130th Editorial Board | December 31

From a turbulent political climate and several campus activism campaigns to star-studded campus visits and business turnover on Thayer Street, the University community experienced various scales and styles of change in 2019. Shake Shack opened for business and Shiru Cafe closed its doors less than ...

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Editors’ note: Herald announces 130th Editorial Board

By 129th Editorial Board | December 4

The Herald is proud to announce the members of its 130th Editorial Board, who will oversee the paper through its 129th year. The 130th Editorial Board will be led by Editor-in-Chief and President Colleen Cronin ’21, an English concentrator from Harwich, Massachusetts. Allie Reed ’21, an English ...

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Editors’ note: What we’re thankful for

By 129th Editorial Board | November 24

195 Angell. Broken chairs and no concussions. Computers that always crash and then sometimes wake up. The old printer, for dying, and the new printer, for barely staying alive. Expo markers. The coffee cups we forget to recycle and the chargers we abandon. Google Calendar for keeping our lives in order. ...

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Editors' Note: The Herald's new print design

By 129th Editorial Board | September 3

The Herald is back for a new academic semester with significant changes to our print design for the first time in four years. Over the past six months, a team of talented designers and editors have worked tirelessly to update our fonts, alter spacing and add design elements to the physical paper. These ...

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Editors' Note: Transparency at The Herald

By 129th Editorial Board | March 18

In a March 12 letter, Jack Wrenn GS urged The Herald to consider creating a public editor position to increase transparency with readers. A public editor, Wrenn contends, would serve as a liaison between The Herald and its readership — hearing community concerns, explaining editorial policies and ...

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Editors' Note: A snapshot of The Herald’s 2018

By 129th Editorial Board | December 31

In 2018, Thayer Street evolved, the 128th editorial board printed their first issue of The Herald and Datamatch circulated through campus. The location of the proposed Performing Arts Center changed, students gathered in solidarity with Parkland victims and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor came ...

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Editor's Note

By 128th Editorial Board | December 7

The 128th Editorial Board published its final issue of the semester today, which marks our last issue as an editorial board. The Herald will continue to publish breaking news and updates online during finals and over winter break. The paper will resume publishing for the spring semester Jan. 23 under ...

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Editor's Note: The Herald names 129th Editorial Board

By 128th Editorial Board | December 2

The Herald announced the members of the 129th Editorial Board Saturday at its annual banquet Dec. 1. The 129th Editorial Board will be led by Editor-in-Chief and President Emily Davies ’19.5, a public policy concentrator from Washington, D.C. Priyanka Podugu ’20, a political science concentrator ...