CELEBRATING 100 YEARS
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n the grand scheme of things, the number 100 doesn’t seem too hard to comprehend — the right amount of pennies to equal a dollar, a perfect score on an exam, enough words to compose a decent paragraph. To be honest, 100 years didn’t seem all that big of a number until I sat down and scrolled through the past century of history, literally and figuratively, and began to fully understand how The Daily News has lived a lifetime longer than most of us ever will, and to me, that is pure magic. Officially, my time with The Daily News began before my time as a Ball State student. I stepped foot in the Unified Media Lab for the first time expecting to find opportunities to grow as a journalist; I didn’t realize I would also find a second home, friends who have become family and an entirely new self-purpose. The four years I have been blessed to spend in this room have changed me in the greatest of ways. To realize I have only been with it for 4 percent of its existence seems crazy, but to realize it has been impactful enough to make it this far is unfathomable. The front page of the 100th anniversary edition of The Daily News only allows for so much space to emphasize how much we appreciate what members of our paper have accomplished before us, but we have aimed to encapsulate not just what The Daily News has been through, but what The Daily News has overcome. It is historic. It is resilient. It is magic. I will never be able to express how big an honor it has been to lead The Daily News through its 100th year as editor-in-chief of a team built of dedicated, responsible student journalists. But, even more so, I will never be able to express how big an honor it has been to be a part of The Daily News, period, and that feeling is as magical as this paper itself.
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Looking Back A timeline of The Daily News’ stories and history
The Easterner is established On the front page of The Easterner, on March 30, 1922, the staff of the newly created student newspaper offered this explanation for why that time was the right time. “The need for some expression of the school life and spirit has long been felt… The school paper could come only when the spirt of the
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school demanded it.” Then-Dean Thomas Breitwieser agreed to the request, and he, along with the students, earned the support of the other faculty at what was then known as the Indiana State Normal School, Eastern Division. An editorial board that included Breitwieser selected
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the original editor, W.C. Harding. The remaining staff members were nominated and elected by the student body. “The Easterner is of, by and for the Eastern Division. It is established for the purpose of serving the school and filing the present existing need.”
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Evolving’ Veteran journalists reminisce on changes in the news industry. Joey Sills Associate News Editor The building that once stood at 217 N. College Ave. is now a parking lot. There is virtually no hint that a newsroom once stood in its place — no sign that student journalists once walked south down North McKinley Avenue after class to shuffle into a house that was once home to The Ball State Daily News. In 1972, as The Daily News was celebrating its 50th anniversary, this house was nothing less than a hub. It would be another five years before its reporters would move into the West Quadrangle Building. It would be another 36 years for the Holden Strategic Communication Center and Unified Media Lab to open on the second floor of the Art and Journalism Building. This house on the outskirts of campus, south of the L.A. Pittenger Student Center, was the center of life for student journalists at Ball State in 1972. It was here they managed a daily print operation, wrote and learned.
Gene Policinski’s first introduction to The Daily News came when he was hired as a student janitor his freshman year at Ball State in 1968. He was assigned to clean the Daily News offices in the evening after most of the reporters left. Being a journalism major, he took this opportunity to get to know the professors working in the building, as they would often be there after hours. Beginning his sophomore year, Policinski started reporting for the paper, eventually becoming editor-in-chief his senior year. Policinski, now a senior fellow for the Freedom Forum in Washington, D.C., presided over The Daily News during the paper’s semicentennial and spearheaded multiple investigations into the campus and surrounding areas. “I helped start what was, at that time, called ‘Weekend Magazine,’ which was a tabloid because I thought we needed a weekly product,” Policinski said. “And while I was there, the staff — not me, but the whole staff — we did a project looking at housing in Muncie … we did a whole investigation on that.”
Policinski also described an investigation on voter registration he helped lead during his time as editor-in-chief. When the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1971, making all 18-year-old citizens eligible to vote, a large percentage of college students across the nation suddenly had a say in the 1972 presidential election. However, Policinski said, because many politicians in Delaware County didn’t want the “liberal, hippie, radical kids … at Ball State” participating, students were often told they could only register in their home county, despite spending most of their time every year at school. “We teamed up with a better government organization, and I was one of the people sent in sort of undercover,” Policinski said. “I went in to register and the same thing … I didn’t tell them where, but I said, ‘I work in Hancock County in the summer — I don’t ever go back to St. Joseph [County], really’ … and so they registered [me].” Following the investigation, the organization The Daily News worked with filed a lawsuit in federal court against the county and won, prompting the Pulitzer Prize Board to send the paper a letter hailing its achievement. To this day, Policinski said he still has a copy of that investigation. Policinski held his first professional journalism job at The Greenfield Daily Reporter in the summer of 1969 before he entered his sophomore year at Ball State. He went on to work for The Daily Reporter until he graduated, after which he began working for The Chronicle-Tribune in Marion, Indiana. In 1976, he moved to Indianapolis to cover the Indiana Statehouse for Gannett News Service, leading him to eventually move to Washington, D.C., in 1979 to cover national politics for the same company. In 1982, Policinski became a founding editor of the Gannett-owned USA Today, staying in Washington. His run with USA Today ended in 1996, his seventh year as managing sports editor. Today, Policinski said he still considers himself to be a journalist because he continues to write columns for the Freedom Forum, a nonprofit organization that advocates for First Amendment rights. Throughout his long career as a journalist, Policinski has worked in print, audio, video and online media. He said he realizes the ever-growing importance of a wide media skill set among today’s journalists, even if such a range of abilities wasn’t necessarily important in the 20th century.
“I think, up until recently, radio, television weren’t really blended in the way I would’ve hoped with [Ball State’s] CCIM [College of Communication, Information and Media],” Policinski said. “They sort of grew up separately, so to speak. But the honest truth is it’s all storytelling — and I think that’s … the mechanism, the medium shaped how things were done in terms of getting news and information.” Stephen Key attended Butler University in Indianapolis from 1973-77, during which time he worked for The Butler Collegian, working his way up to editor-in-chief his senior year. Key, now executive director and general counsel of the Hoosier State Press Association (HSPA), also said there is an increasing reliance on multimedia skills for journalists, as opposed to the print-centric approach of his time. “In the 1970s, the internet was really not a part of anybody’s life, so we were pretty much putting together a print product and we were done,” Key said. “Now … you’re seeing the need for students to not only be able to write, but to take video or photos with their phone or other equipment — they’re looking to create not only print products but digital products.” Being editor-in-chief of The Butler Collegian, Key had a unique perspective on the weekly printing process of the paper and others like it. After each print production night, Key would take the pages to The Noblesville Daily Ledger, where the printer created aluminum plates with images of the pages. Through a complicated printing process, the ink from the plates would be transferred to sheets of newsprint, creating the final product. While Key himself didn’t run the presses, it was his job to stay awake during the process and bring the bundles of paper back to Butler and set them on the campus newsstands. After college, Key worked for The Daily Ledger and The Daily Journal of Johnson County in Franklin, Indiana. In 1991, he attended the Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis. Two years later, he became the general counsel at HSPA, a trade association representing newspapers across Indiana by providing legal services. The HSPA also maintains the Eugene S. Pulliam Internship, named for a previous owner of the Indianapolis Star. The name Pulliam has been entwined with journalism in Indiana since the 1930s. Eugene C. Pulliam founded Central Newspapers Inc., a media holding company, in 1934, and famously acquired the Indy Star years later.
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‘The Easterner’ Retires
After the 1929 stock market crash, the United States economy was in disarray and millions of workers became unemployed. In August 1931, The Daily News published then-Ball State President L.A. Pittenger’s plans for campus aid during the Great Depression.
The day’s paper declared: “’The Easterner’ Retires From Campus Life” — and the Ball State News was born. “All is quiet on the Easterner front,” the staff wrote. “The Easterner has been given an honorable discharge. Long live the Easterner!” As the school grew, so did the paper. The name change, the staff said, would better reflect those changes.
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One specific change in the news industry since his father’s and grandfather’s times, Russell said, was the field’s economic focus. While advertisement revenue was often enough for most newspapers to stay afloat in the mid-20th century, Russell said the lack of print ads in recent years has led to a decline in print journalism. This, along with other changes in the industry — such as an increasing reliance on multimedia skills and the importance of the internet — has “pushed [journalists] into an entrepreneurial direction,” Russell said. “The ones who are entrepreneurial, like some
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Being a journalist today is damn tough. I will tell you, over the course of my years, it was never easy — but I think it’s tougher today than it’s ever been.”
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The Daily News didn’t extensively cover World War II as headlining news, but throughout the war, it published a list of “Ball Staters in Service,” with each individual’s military ranking and city of origin.
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Policinski said. “I will tell you, over the course of my years, it was never easy — but I think it’s tougher today than it’s ever been.” When Policinski described his time as editorin-chief, he started with the negatives. He said it was a “huge time suck” that “took hours, hours and hours” and that “you basically gave up your life to do it.” But he had no shortage of praise for Ball State and its programs either. He commended the early convergence of audio, video, design and print at CCIM, and he’s also served for more than 10 years on the CCIM Dean’s Executive Advisory Council. “I always thought that Ball State maintained that kind of presence that taught you the theory of why but also taught you the practicality,” Policinski said. “And, again, I think they’ve stayed pretty well, over the years, on top of the changes in the industry.” The house on North College Avenue no longer exists, iMacs have replaced typewriters and breaking news notifications have replaced the Associated Press teletype machine. This desire for evolution, in a way, has been a major part of the news industry the last 100 years, Key said. “The industry is changing and evolving to reach readers,” Key said, “and we’re evolving and changing to figure out the best way to monetize our news content. So it’s a very interesting time in journalism.” Contact Joey Sills with comments at joey.sills@ bsu.edu or on Twitter @sillsjoey.
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of these guys who start blogs and they take off, or they become specialists in a certain area, they really have it made,” Russell said. “But some others, who are not designed by nature to be entrepreneurs, kind of have a harder time, unless they can land up at The Washington Post.” As a journalist for more than 50 years, Policinski is aware of the challenges modern journalists face and how they’re different from the ones of the ‘70s. Today, he said, journalists are often seen not as “the ultimate purveyor of truth,” but as a threat to certain narratives people would rather push. “Being a journalist today is damn tough,”
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CENTURY DN alumni share photos from the newsroom over the past 100 years.
Doug Long working in the newsroom in 1981. Casey miller, Kay Bacon and Mike Beas pose in front of Doug long in 1983.
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Congrats from one proud former editor! Keep up the good work! - Zach Piatt
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Congratulations, Daily News, on a century of serving Ball State, its students, faculty, staff and alumni. Working at the DN for four years helped me truly "live the dream" after graduation (1983).
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Before the Unified Media Lab opened in 2014, student editors and staffers worked first in a house off campus, then West Quad, then a converted classroom in the Art and Journalism building.
Rebecca Richards and Nancy hanna display the 50th Anniversary print paper in 1972. Benjamin Dashley and staff meet in 2012.
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The Daily News has a rich history of reporting by responsible and dedicated student journalists. Searching through the archives of the past 100 years, Daily News staff found no shortage of unique campus news and world events staff members before us worked hard to curate and report. Faced with the difficult task of finding the top 10 stories from a century of work, the current staff decided to limit this list to our lifetime. While we’re sure each Daily News staffer has their personal list of top stories, this was our best effort to reflect on the events and investigations our campus has seen in the 21st century. However, we encourage you to explore more of the historical work of The Daily News’ past in our archives, available at the Ball State Digital Media Repository.
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April 13, 2008
Barack Obama visits campus
Then-presidential hopeful Barack Obama joined a long line of politicians before him who visited Muncie on their campaign trails. Obama’s visit received top billing on The Daily News’ front page, and the rest of the paper included opinion columns and a feature story on undecided voters.
Ball State President Paul Ferguson resigns
Ball State’s 15th president, Paul Ferguson, resigned suddenly Jan. 25, 2016, after serving as university president for fewer than two years. The Daily News provided extensive coverage and dedicated its entire Jan. 26, 2016, print paper to his resignation.
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Sept. 4, 2013
SGA president resigns after racist tweets
Former Student Government Association President Malachi Randolph resigned Sept. 4, 2013, following a series of controversial tweets regarding Chinese people. The Daily News published an editorial regarding the resignation the next day.
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Alumnus David Letterman interviewed media personality Oprah Winfrey Nov. 26, 2012, in Emens Auditorium. Distribution of the tickets was delayed by three days because of the event’s anticipated high demand. With a student ID, students received free tickets, which more than 1,000 people lined up days in advance to receive. The Daily News published multiple online stories in the weeks leading up to the event.
JFK assassinated
President Johnson elected
The Daily News dedicated its entire issue Dec. 6, 1963, to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, who visited campus before the start of his presidency. The front page features the original breaking bulletins from the United Press International, with the words “president dead.”
Following the death of President John F. Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson assumed office. He was reelected in 1964, and The Daily News published a front page with the headline “Johnson elected,” complete with a portrait of the president in the center.
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Ball State professor calls university police on student
Beginning in July 2018, Ball State became the first university in Indiana to oversee a public school district. The partnership between Ball State and Muncie Community Schools (MCS) led to the Partnership Project, an annual Daily News special edition that covers stories related to MCS.
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Shaheen Borna, professor of marketing, called the University Police Department officials on Sultan Benson, a student in his class, after Benson said he refused to move seats. Benson said, as a Black man, he felt particularly afraid during the incident. On March 16, 2022, Benson filed civil action against Ball State and Borna.
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Theta Chi shuts down
Citing confirmed violations of the national chapter guidelines, Ball State’s chapter of Theta Chi was disbanded in October 2018. Daily News staff published a front-cover story the next day. In November 2021, The Daily News published a story detailing plans for the chapter to return to campus.
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Ball State cancels in-person classes
On March 16, 2020, five days after the spread of COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), all in-person classroom instruction at Ball State was canceled for the duration of the spring 2020 semester. Study abroad programs were canceled for the summer and fall 2020 semesters as well. Ball State’s plan followed the temporary cancelation of classes at other universities including Purdue University and Indiana University.
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Mike Pence visits Fort Wayne before election
On Dec. 7, 2017, The Daily News published an investigation detailing the criminal background of Jason Buie, a part-time contract faculty member in the computer science department who was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder and arson. The Daily News’ story details the Ball State hiring process, Buie’s coworkers’ comments on his job performance and Buie’s own reflection on his pursuits.
Former Vice President Mike Pence visited Fort Wayne, Indiana, Oct. 22, 2020, as part of former President Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign. Pence spoke at the Fort Wayne Aero Center to around 400-500 supporters. The Ball State Daily News covered the event and later asked political groups on campus about their feelings regarding the campaign for a print story the next week.
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Celebrating 50 years
Challenger Explosion
In his editor’s note on the cover of 50th anniversary edition, Michael P. Smith wrote, “Today’s Daily News is a 16-page newspaper. The outside eight pages are dedicated to the thousands of students who worked on the Daily News (Easterner) in its first 50 years.” He continued, “These daily pages are a chronicle of your life here. They constitute life. They belong to the second 50 years.”
The Space Shuttle Challenger explosion on Jan. 28, 1986, was a fatal accident that killed all seven members aboard. The Daily News featured both an Associated Press wire and an article detailing Ball Corporation’s work on space shuttles and its relation to Ball State.
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The sports section of The Ball State Daily News has never been measured by the number of reporters. It’s not about who gets what beat or who writes which stories. The foundations of the section were built on telling the stories of Ball State Sports and working together toward a universal goal: telling the stories of sports.
Michael Smith Former sports editor and editor-in-chief of The Daily News, then-freshman Michael Smith, 1973 alumnus, arrived at a house known as the Center for Journalism in 1969 on Ball State’s campus as the university had rented neighboring houses to allow for extracurriculars. Smith worked for The Daily News when pasting and placing by hand were the cutting–edge forms of design. At the same time, Ball State Sports were entering a new era. With Ball State Sports transitioning from what was then known as the College Division to the University Division, or Division I AA to Division I A, Smith said “it was a great time to be there.” Smith’s first beat was men’s soccer, a sport he said he knew little about but took to get his foot in the door. “The interesting thing is that we were pretty good, but I didn’t know much about soccer,” Smith said. “The coach at the time was a guy named Arno Wittig. I went to him and I said, ‘I’m from The Daily News. My beat is soccer, and I’m gonna be covering it. Could you help me figure out, you know, the types of things that are going on so I could do a better job?’ He would be very patient with me and help me out. I got into soccer because he was able to explain the intricacies of it.”
During his time at The Daily News, Smith said his adviser, Earl Conn, would leave a scathing critique of the each paper on a bulletin board for everyone to see. It was always in the mind of the staff members to be putting out their best work knowing that it would be held to the highest standards. “You learned very quickly that you needed to be careful of how you presented information — make sure it was fair, accurate and complete,” Smith said. “Those skills serve you whether you’re in sports or in any aspect of journalism.” With the publication printing daily, organization and strategy were skills to acquire while working, but Smith said the staff often found itself at the forefront of the same debate: who was it all for? Was it students, the university community or a larger community such Muncie and its residents? “Those questions are relevant even today,” he said. “Like, when you’re doing the story, who am I writing for? What does that person mean? What are they interested in? How can we compel them to read the story? Those types of things are still really relevant today.” To Smith, the job of a journalist was to find the truth and share it accordingly. “I think everybody in my generation saw that their responsibility was to rock the boat,” Smith said. “If you’re not rocking the boat, then you’re not doing your job … It gave me an attitude that journalists need to press people on issues and need to surface those issues.”
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Four individuals, despite being separated by their generations, all connected through what made them a team – the Daily News Sports section.
Less than a decade after Smith had left Ball State, Mike Beas, 1984 alumnus, transferred to Ball State as a junior in 1982. After serving as sports editor of his junior college newspaper, he fit into his new environment immediately, and his first beat was men’s volleyball. “I thought, ‘OK, I don’t know if I’ve seen a volleyball match in my life,’” Beas said. “Don Shondell, the Ball State coach, pulled me into his office one day and he started explaining volleyball to me and then I kind of got into it.” Immersing himself in the sport by covering matches while getting to know Shondell and his players, Beas eventually traveled with the Cardinals for a road trip. “I still tell people about going to watch them play,” Beas said. “I think I was at Penn State, like [for] three days, and watched them play Penn State and Ohio State and some really good teams from around the Midwest.” While with The Daily News for two years, Beas diversified his portfolio, covering men’s and women’s basketball, women’s volleyball and football while serving as sports editor for his final year and a half. “The thing that stood out, looking back, was just the camaraderie,” Beas said. “We were all sort of in the same boat because, in those days, you weren’t filing stories from home. You weren’t filing them from some other location. You had to be up there.” Today, Beas can regularly see campus through his daughter, who is currently a student, and always finds his way back to the West Quad Building. Beas and his fellow staffers thought it was the best place on campus but not because of the building itself. “You just kind of looked around and thought, ‘Gosh, isn’t this great?’” Beas said. “In hindsight, you’re thinking, ‘Why did I think that?’ You thought that because of the people. You thought that because
you were friends with everybody. So even though the building wasn’t one-tenth of the building you may work in now, it’s still special to all of us who worked in it back then.” For Beas, everything happened in that building. “We had classes there,” Beas said. “We had labs there. We all got to know each other there. We worked a lot of late hours some nights, pasting the paper up when things wouldn’t go right or some machine might’ve been broken … I can still picture it like it was yesterday.”
Brian Spiess After serving as editor-in-chief of his high school newspaper, Brian Spiess, 1994 alumnus, joined he Daily News’ sports section in January 1991 and picked up the men’s tennis beat his freshman year. Roughly 10 years after Beas, he found the newsroom in the West Quad Building and began making it an office. “We kind of viewed it as like, if we want jobs when we graduate, we want to be able to show that we can do this,” Spiess said. “We were putting this out every day.” Rising to sports editor his junior year, Spiess covered Ball State Football on the road when they traveled to Clemson and Kansas in the 1992 season
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coming down during a women’s basketball game and totally messing with me, like patting me on the head while I was working,” Spiess said. “We sat on press row, covered the game and then after the game, we just booked it back to The Daily News to write up the story.” Still running a daily print publication, Spiess and the staff would send their pages to Newcastle, Indiana, which is where it printed. Spiess said an older gentleman would come pick up the designs, drive it to Newcastle and deliver it the next morning for distribution. When Ball State’s Digital Media Repository opened, Spiess and his college friends dug through the archives to find old editions of their work and one of their favorite Daily News memories. On a particularly cold day when the weather hit 30-below with wind chill, most schools in the Midwest had closed, but Ball State did not. Spiess said then-president John Worthen was quoted “basically saying, ‘I don’t know what people are complaining about. People go to the slopes in this weather all the time.’” Spiess and The Daily News’ staff took off with that comment in print. “We juxtaposed [the quote] with a doctor [saying], ‘Whatever you do, you should not go outside in this weather,’” Spiess said. “Then, we wrote basically an opinion piece where we went to his office, and we walked how far it was from his office to his parking spot, which was like 20 feet and we were like, ‘Yeah, it’s easy for him to say, ‘This is fine to be out here’ because it’s so close.’” Spiess admitted it might’ve not been Woodward and Bernstein investigative journalism, but the students took the administration to task and they would never forget it.
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When reflecting on his time working for the newspaper, he said the hands-on experience he received was one of his most important takeaways. “It’s the difference between seriously putting out a newspaper every day [and] just being in a journalism class where your project is to pretend to make a newspaper once for a semester,” Spiess
said. “When you’re doing it every day, you’re getting a lot of reps. Really, [it’s] muscle memory.” University Arena, now known as Worthen Arena, had opened during Spiess’ time at Ball State and he said it was exciting to be down on press row in the new facility. “I can remember Charlie Cardinal one time
Michelle Rusk, 1994 alumna, has been a runner for most of her life and got her start with sportswriting covering covering women’s track and field after transferring to Ball State in 1991. Her goal was to tell the stories of others. “It wasn’t necessarily that I was going to become a sportswriter,” Rusk said. “I just really wanted to write longer features about people, and I just found it interesting how people find inspiration and motivation [in sports].” Rusk was named assistant sports editor her junior year, after working with Spiess. She was originally asked to cover women’s basketball, but the beat reporter for men’s basketball dropped out,
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and Rusk took over. The 1992-93 men’s team went 26-8, won the Mid-American Conference (MAC) Tournament before falling in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Rusk’s generation was one of the first to file stories directly from away games rather than travel back to the newsroom and write the story there. “We had this almost typewriter-looking Radio Shack thing that we hooked up to a phone line,” Rusk said. “I mean, it sounds so primitive now, and it was a lot of work ... We were at the games in Athens, Ohio, or up at Mount Pleasant, [Michigan], and this was just for the night games. It would just take forever to get these stories to go through it, [but] then we could dateline it ‘ATHENS, Ohio.’” When Rusk worked for The Daily News, there were only about five sports reporters, but she said it didn’t matter because of the bond they had together. “We all had a camaraderie, like a unified group for the whole paper,” Rusk said. “I just remember everybody was supportive of each other … We all wanted to put out a good paper, and we wanted to do a good job. I don’t know that we were thinking about our future or anything so much as we just wanted to do a good job because that’s who we were.” When Spiess was named editor-in-chief, Rusk was asked to be sports editor and is believed to be the first female sports editor in Daily News history. “You don’t realize it because you’re in the thick of it,” Rusk said. “It’s just a really short period of time in your life … and you make the college experience what you want it to be, and if I hadn’t joined The Daily News, I wouldn’t have had any of these things happen. I wouldn’t be able to do any of these things.” Being in the newsroom for late-night game coverage or pasting and checking designs over and over again was where they all wanted to be because of each other. The small, seemingly indifferent moments are cemented in their memories and the legacy of the section. Huddling together to watch presidential elections, running laps around the track to work through writers’ block or hitting golf balls off the roof of the West Quad Building at semester’s end, it all happened together. Smith, Beas, Spiess and Rusk continued to come back to one connection between their memories: covering sports for The Daily News with their friends. The stories, the memories, the people. The foundations of a section. Contact Daniel Kehn with comments at daniel. kehn@bsu.edu or on Twitter @daniel_kehn.
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The shooting at Columbine High School in 1999 received front-page coverage the next day in The Daily News. In addition to an Associated Press wire, the front page included a story detailing experts’ calls for more counselors to assist in anger management and help grieving students.
The Daily News dedicated nearly its entire Sept. 12, 2001, paper to coverage of the 9/11 attacks, as well as students’ and professors’ reactions to them. With the headline “Freedom Under Fire,” this Daily News issue became one of the only 9/11 college newspaper front pages displayed in The Newseum in Washington, D.C.
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The Daily News committed itself to covering pivotal moments in Ball State Athletics during different circumstances. Charleston Bowles Associate Sports Editor After covering three games in three days of the Mid-American Conference (MAC) Men’s Basketball Tournament, Matt Schroeder, Tony Bleill and Mark Harper walked out of then-Cobo Arena March 11, 1990, into 44-degree temperatures. Schroeder, 1990 Ball State graduate, spent his senior spring break covering Ball State Men’s Basketball’s second straight MAC Tournament championship in Detroit. There was a light drizzle falling from the sky, and Schroeder and his team realized there wasn’t any time to waste. They jumped on Interstate 69 to return to Muncie. It was Selection Sunday, and the NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament pairings were being announced, so the group fiddled with
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Reporting on a historic run Schroeder said access was not any different for student journalists than it was for reporters from CBS, ESPN and The New York Times in the NCAA Tournament. Schroeder had lunch with CBS broadcaster Len Elmore and sat next to then-ESPN reporter Tim Brando on press row. “It’s not like they give you some different path that says ‘student journalist’ on it, and therefore, you don’t have the privileges,”
Schroeder said. “When you’re 21 and you’re just getting started in the field, it’s amazing just to be around them [Brando and Elmore]. I wish I’d maybe asked more questions about ‘What do you do?’ and ‘How do you get into this?’ But I was just so absorbed in covering the basketball games — I didn’t look at it as anything more than that.” From running into boxer Buster Douglas in Salt Lake City to walking past rapper MC Hammer on his way down to press row of then-Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum Arena in Oakland, California, Schroeder witnessed what life was like somewhere else. Though Schroeder and Bleill understood their positions as student journalists and didn’t root for Ball State, Schroeder said their neutrality didn’t stop them from wanting the Cardinals’ tournament run to continue. “We didn’t want to get back on a plane and fly home after 36 hours,” Schroeder said. “We were pretty excited just that it was going on for another day, [to] get to have that experience and in the hotel and interviews.” Schroeder remembers writing his game recap in the moment after No. 12 Ball State defeated No. 4 Louisville in the Round of 32 but can’t
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Nearly the entire front page of the April 4, 2005, issue of The Daily News was dedicated to the death of Pope John Paul II. In addition to an Associated Press wire, staff reporters interviewed local Muncie priests and ran a story about a St. Francis of Assisi Parish & Newman Center reverend reflecting on meeting the pope during a 1998 visit to Rome.
The Virginia Tech shooting on April 16, 2007, remains the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, killing 32 people and injuring 17 others. The Daily News dedicated the center of its front page to an Associated Press article detailing the shooting.
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“There were people down close to us and people with signs,” Mudd said. “It reminds you when you see some of these big-energy, high-profile games on TV, whether it’s Duke or some of these other places, where students are right down on the court and everything’s packed and noisy.” Irving Gymnasium, the previous home to Ball State basketball and volleyball, didn’t have a media room. Daily News reporters traveled down hallways, and sports information directors brought out players from locker rooms for interviews. But in University Arena, Mudd said, the experience for Daily News reporters felt different from the beginning. “All of a sudden, we had a whole media room with a food spread, actual places to plug in equipment,” Mudd said. “It was a very sort of jaw-dropping experience, and I think based off of that first night, I think everybody was excited at what potential the arena could bring.
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able to have that time with this man whose book was on the bestseller list, that was my dream.’ Although the stories have not always been instantly published, The Daily News has placed an emphasis on covering important moments in Ball State Sports like bowl games, postseason tournaments and grand openings of athletic facilities for decades. Contact Charleston Bowles with comments at clbowles@bsu.edu or on Twitter @cbowles01.
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Making the most of it Michelle Rusk, 1994 Ball State graduate, enjoyed feature writing for The Daily News but didn’t envision a sports journalism career after Ball State. However, her future ambitions didn’t stop her from covering Ball State Football’s matchup against Utah State in the 1993 Las Vegas Bowl during winter break. Due to the conclusion of the fall semester, The Daily News wouldn’t print until January. David Knott, thenadviser of The Daily News, called Rusk in his office and booked a plane ticket and hotel for her. “He’s like, ‘You can’t not go. You have to be there. This is a bowl game — we won the conference. You have to go there,’” Rusk said. “He believed that even though it was going to be three
Bringing in a new era Mike Mudd, 1994 Ball State graduate, covered the opening of University Arena in 1992. Mudd lived in LaFollette Complex and saw the arena being built his freshman year. As a sophomore for The Daily News, he covered the first men’s basketball game in the new arena. Mudd said, at the time, the arena’s opening was a proud moment for the Ball State community to showcase what it hoped would become a successful long-term home for both basketball and volleyball. Ball State Men’s and Women’s Basketball hosted Miami (Ohio) for their first games in the new arena Jan. 15, 1992. Mudd said The Daily News brought its full staff because of how much attention the arena, now Worthen Arena, warranted. He said press row was directly beneath the student section and the atmosphere was something he never experienced at Ball State prior to the arena’s opening.
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On Nov. 4, 2008, Barack Obama was elected president, becoming the first Black man to hold the U.S. presidency. The Daily News unusually chose to use a horizontal design for its front page the day after, showing a landscape shot of Obama’s large campaign crowds and a quote saying, “Change has come to America.”
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ALUMNI Former Daily News members reflect on their Pulitzer-winning stories.
Samantha Lyon Reporter Established in 1917 in honor of pioneer journalist and newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, the Pulitzer Prize honors exceptional journalistic achievements. Over the last 100 years, it has remained one of the most prominent and acclaimed awards for journalism. Stephen Beard, Matt Berry and Erika Espinoza all belonged, at one point in time, to the journalist community. Without knowing each other individually, a few distinct aspects unite
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them: all three attended Ball State and have been a part of Pulitzer Prize-winning projects.
Laying the groundwork Stephen Beard, Muncie native and 1997 Ball State graduate, has been a part of two Pulitzer Prizewinning projects. Before becoming an award-winning graphics journalist, he was a freshman journalism student expressing to his professor his desire to get involved with a campus media organization. “I took an Introduction to Communications class with Dr. Randall Kahn, and he told me that if I wanted to get involved with the newspaper, the best thing to do would be to just walk in and ask them to give me something to do,” Beard said. “I did, saw where I plugged in, took off running and made so many friends in The Daily News newsroom.” Beard was a member of The Daily News staff throughout his college career. During his senior year, he served as a senior staff writer and designed for his practicum, an alternative to student internships to provide students with work experience in their field of study. After graduation, Beard began working for the Crawfordsville Journal Review in Crawfordsville, Indiana, where he started as a general news reporter but expanded his horizons and acquired a newfound ambition for graphic design. For Erika Espinoza, her Ball State journey began well before she received her admission letter. During her time as a student at Columbus North High School, Ball State’s annual Journalism Day
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15 was something she looked forward to every year. “[Journalism Day] was my first exposure to Ball State and journalism workshops, and since I wanted to pursue visual journalism after high school, it just felt like a very natural school to choose,” Espinoza said. Espinoza earned her bachelor’s degree for journalism in 2017, and she went on to earn her master’s for emerging media and design development in 2019. During her time at Ball State, Espinoza said she was heavily involved with Ball Bearings Magazine and served as the design director her senior year while also occasionally lending her skills to The Daily News for graphics reporting. Espinoza said Jennifer Palilonis, Ball State George and Frances Ball distinguished professor of multimedia journalism, was her first mentor. Palilonis was Espinoza’s graphics professor and oversaw her creative project. “Even today, I still think about everything that she taught me,” Espinoza said. “She was definitely a huge influence in my career, and a lot of the things that I did and a lot of the people that I met were because of her.”
on my internship at The South Bend Tribune, and I got to work with him on an assignment.” Berry attended Vincennes University in 2002, where he earned an associate degree in photojournalism in 2004 before transferring to Ball State to earn his bachelor’s degree in 2006. While at Ball State, Berry was a member of The Ball State Daily News for a year and served as both assistant and chief photography editor. He went on to work as a teaching assistant in journalism classes while also freelancing for The Star Press.
Prize-winning journalists During his 14-year stint with the Indianapolis Star, Beard was involved with The Arizona Republic’s 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning project for Explanatory Reporting, “The Wall: Unknown Stories, Unintended Consequences,” an in-depth report on the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico. “The whole project came about from the 2016 primaries,” Beard said. “[Former President Donald] Trump had been making noise about building this wall, and so, The Arizona Republic set out to answer the question, ‘What does that look like?’ My part was to create 3D diagrams and animations of the
I’ve gotten past thinking about awards — I look ahead. The real reward is seeing change after the award. Laws get enacted and institutions change what they’re doing because of something we did, and that’s such a special feeling.” - STEPHEN BEARD, Ball State Daily News staff reporter and 1997 graduate
Matt Berry picked up his first camera at 5 years old, and from there, the rest was history. Berry was born and raised in Patoka, Indiana, and his love and passion for photography was ever-growing as he engaged in summer photography classes and his high school newspaper and yearbook staffs. But he credits his drive for photography and photojournalism to his hometown newspaper, The Evansville Courier and Press, and his childhood hero, Denny Simmons, photojournalist for The Evansville Courier and Press. “That newspaper had an amazing photography staff,” Berry said. “They consistently won awards at the national level — they’re just fantastic and to this day still are that. My childhood hero, Denny Simmons, was even still working there when I was
different types of walls.” Because the project was completed almost entirely remotely due to contributors being spread out across the country, Beard and fellow Ball State graduate Espinoza had no idea they were working on the same project, at the same time. Espinoza was in her first year of her master’s degree when she reached out to her former boss from an internship at the Phoenix Design Studio, Tracy Collins, looking to get involved with more digital projects. She, alongside one of her mentors, Suzanne Palma, joined the social and digital media team for “The Wall.” For Espinoza, working on “The Wall” meant more than adding to her portfolio or putting her skills to the test because she also felt a deeper connection to the stories of those impacted.
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“I was undocumented for a long time,” Espinoza said, “so reading those personal stories about how the wall was going to impact not only the wildlife, or the people living around the border, but also the people entering the border … it did create a personal connection to that project.” Beard was also involved in another Pulitzer Prize-winning project. In 2021, he was a team member of a Pulitzer Prize-winning project for National Reporting for the Indianapolis Star’s year-long investigation of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department’s (IMPD) K-9 unit. The investigative series, “Mauled: When Police Dogs are Weapons,” came together in partnership with The Marshall Project, AL.com, and the Invisible Institute. Beard said he worked on the project with ERIKA ESPINO ZA, PHOTO PR OVIDED a reporter and a photographer while he was designing graphics. The reporter, Ryan Martin, had just started in Indianapolis and was looking at incidents with a high rate of dog bites on K-9 units. Katrice Hardy, their editor at the time, said a friend of hers from the Marshall Erika Espinoza, 2017 Ball State Project was also working on something about K-9 unit dog bites. graduate, won a pulitzer for “It led to some conversations that ultimately led to her work on “the Wall,” by the all of us getting together and pooling our resources to phoenix design studio. make a much bigger story,” Beard said. In 2017, The Cincinnati Enquirer generated the Little did she know that Stephen idea for its Pulitzer Prize-winning project for local reporting, “Seven Days of Heroin.” The project Beard, 1997 Ball State graduate, followed the stories of families, first responders was on the same team. and addicts and the implications of the heroin epidemic across Ohio and Kentucky in real-time for an entire week. Berry was one of more than 60 reporters, Where tomorrow leads photographers and videographers who worked on this project, capturing the intimate and hardThe reporting is done, the articles have been hitting moments of the epidemic. published, awards have been presented and life Berry said he remembers one instance of keeps moving. Beard continues his career as a meeting a young girl in her foster home whose graphics journalist for USA Today, Espinoza is mother suffered from addiction. Listening to a product designer for American City Business her talk about her experiences while he worked, Journal and Berry is now an e-commerce content he tried to make himself as inconspicuous as specialist at Restaurant Equippers, Inc. possible to capture photos in a tiny little bedroom Despite winning a Pulitzer Prize, Beard believes and try not to cry. journalism means much more than a shiny medal “Being able to tell a story like this — this in- or a new addition to a resume. depth, this broad — with this many aspects to it “I’m always looking forward to the next project,” to be able to show people the depth of the issue,” Beard said. “I’ve gotten past thinking about awards Berry said. “I think you can read a story a day for — I look ahead. The real reward is seeing change 10 years and maybe not quite understand the full after the award. Laws get enacted and institutions scope of the problem, but when it’s presented in a change what they’re doing because of something way like this, where you’re seeing something for we did, and that’s such a special feeling.” almost every hour of every day for seven days, it Contact Samantha Lyon with comments at really drives home.” samantha.lyon@bsu.edu.
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In fact, Knott started every day in the newsroom the same way — with the day’s edition of The Daily News on his desk and a red pen ready to mark it up. “Every morning,” Knott said, “the first thing I did when I got to my office was pick up a copy of the paper, and I’d go through and mark up every single story, and we ran anywhere from six to 16 broadsheet pages a day.” When he got to the newsroom every day, Greg Weaver, 1983 journalism and political science graduate, made his way to where Knott’s critique was posted. “Everybody would come in and read it, and we would get an honest, unvarnished opinion of how we had done our job,” Weaver said. “That was helpful because you knew that if Dave wrote the words ‘good grief’ above one of your stories, you had an issue that you needed to address and think about.” There are three things he did, Knott said, that were important in how he advised the staff of The Daily News. In addition to his DIGITAL MEDIA REP OSITORY, PHOTO CO URTESY daily critiques, Knott also made changes to the paper’s publication process. When he began advising in 1976, The Daily News printed on something Toney covered himself. tabloid pages, and one of the first things he did was switch the paper “They used to have the contest up in Lake County, and the DN over to a broadsheet format. always sent somebody up to cover it,” Knott said. “One time, they “In the 1970s, tabloid format was viewed as gossip,” Knott said. did a photo page. The only thing I said was, ‘Don’t publish any “They weren’t taken as seriously as a broadsheet was.We switched frontal pictures.’” over to a broadsheet, and boy, did that open things up.” When Knott looked at the paper the next day, he said, there He also bumped the paper up from printing four days a week to was a gallery of “women in high heels showing their buttcheeks, five. The additional papers helped The Daily News financially, Knott dancing on the stage.” While Knott said he doesn’t remember said, as it increased advertisement revenue and grew the department’s receiving much backlash, Toney, 1975 journalism graduate, said he advertising program, which led more students to the newsroom. remembers “outrage” and Cordell Campbell, chief of the Muncie “Usually, we’d have 75-80 people on staff every semester Police Department at the time, threatened to press criminal charges. between advertising, news, editorial and production,” Knott said, “We were young and crazy and panicked,” Toney said. “Dr. and each reporter would work on a variety of beats including SGA, Ingelhart called me into his office, and I thought, ‘Oh, man. This faculty senate and the Board of Trustees. “They got to know the is going to be bad.’ He looked at me, and he said, ‘I’ll make some people, and the people got to know them, and sometimes they liked calls. You better not go to class for the next couple days. They’re them, and sometimes they didn’t.” going to be looking at your schedule.’” He was sure to always make clear, though, that The Daily News When Toney returned to campus a few days later, he said was the students’ paper, and if they were going to run a story, they everything was fine. better make it effective. “I don’t know what Dr. Ingelhart did,” Toney said, “but nothing “That was my main mantra,” Knott said. “Be effective in ever happened.” whatever it is you do … I was always willing to talk to them and ‘The Heart and Soul of The Daily News’ give them my advice, and if they took it, that’s fine. If they didn’t, that’s fine, too. It was their paper, and we made that very clear … It was because of the support The Daily News received from Dr. Ingelhart would never have allowed anything other than that.” the Department of Journalism, Toney said, that he was able to learn The third thing he did, and the most important, Knott said, was as much as he did in student media. make himself constantly available to his students. “It was a small enough department at that point, especially if “The fact that I was available was very important,” Knott said. you worked at The Daily News, that the people on the staff got to know you,” Toney said. “You couldn’t walk around “At the time, I didn’t think of it in those terms at all; it was just something I wanted to do. I was here all the time — I answered without Dr. Ingelhart, Ken Atwell and Mark Popovich pulling out questions, gave advice, was told to go to hell — and it was great. It the paper and handing you a copy of your article marked up with was wonderful. We built relationships that way.” suggestions, and that was so beneficial.”
Prologue’
Taylor Smith Editor-in-Chief
Former Daily News adviser and editors share their favorite memories with The Daily News. The Miss and Mr. Nude Indiana Pageant Near the end of Doug Toney’s time at Ball State and as an editor of The Daily News, a position opened up in the Department of Journalism. The Daily News needed a new adviser, and Louis E. Ingelhart, then-chair of the department, already had someone in mind. Ingelhart called David Knott, who previously completed a journalism workshop with the department and a teaching assistantship in 1970, eventually earning his master’s from the school. Knott applied for a job with the department a few years prior and didn’t get it, but when Ingelhart told him about the opening with The Daily News, Knott said he accepted the job immediately. “Best thing that ever happened to me,” Knott said. “This was post-Watergate, so it was a really exciting time to be in journalism, especially in newspapers. There was a high degree of idealism, and everybody who came in was going to change the world, and it was so much fun — it was so invigorating. I still get choked up thinking about it.” From 1976-99, Knott helped The Daily News staff through the highs and lows of student media, from reporting the explosion of The Challenger in 1986 to the Miss and Mr. Nude Indiana Pageant,
Orlando nightclub shooting June 12, 2016
The June 12, 2016, Orlando nightclub shooting killed 49 people and wounded 53 more, which was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history until the Las Vegas shooting in 2017. The front page of The Daily News the next day featured a photo of Muncie City Hall lit up in rainbow colors in support of the LGBTQ community.
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On Nov. 8, 2016, Donald Trump was elected to office in an “unexpectedly close” election, according to an editorial published by The Daily News’ editors Nov. 9, 2016. Although the presidential election had the spotlight, the editorial looked to highlight the importance of congressional races, gubernatorial races and local elections as well.
17 When Amy Brines, 1993 journalism graduate, thinks about working with Knott, she said she remembers how often he made her laugh just being around him, but what she appreciates most about him was how welcoming he was of her to the newsroom. “Just put a big picture of [Knott] on the front of [the paper],” Brines said. “He’s just, to me, the heart and soul of The Daily News. Dave was a leader. He was someone you could rely on, and it really was just a big family.”
Policy and Pulitzers One Saturday morning in late 1982, Don Yaeger, 1984 journalism alumnus, called Knott from the Alexander M. Bracken Library. “I’ve come across something,” he said, “and I want to make sure I understand it.” Knott left home on his day off to review something Yaeger found in the local paper. Indiana’s financial institutions are required by law to post earnings and debits every few months, Knott said. At the time,
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Three weeks had passed since The Daily News broke the story, and Knott said the time allowed for misinformation to spread like wildfire. He and the staff then decided the best way to clear up the story was to publish the hard facts. “I told them to publish the numbers and put them in the paper,” Knott said. “When they did, everything changed.” The day the numbers ran in print, a local attorney called Yaeger, who wrote the story that broke the news for The Daily News, and asked to meet him for breakfast. “He said, ‘Tomorrow, I’m going to file a suit against the university for their conflict of interest,’” Knott said. “This thing blew open.” The case made its way to the grand jury. For months, The Daily News sent photographers to stand outside the courts whenever anyone involved in the case testified, and pictures of university figureheads entering the jury room were published in the paper. “It was horrible, but it was exhilarating,” Knott said. “I am convinced had I not been on tenure, I would have been fired. No question.”
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- DAVID KNOTT, The Daily News adviser from 1976-99 Robert P. Bell, Ball State president from 1981-84, was on the board of Merchant’s Bank, and the then-Board of Trustees President held a high-figure role with another. The bank in which the president of the board was involved had declared a “huge loss.” “Shortly after that, the university put like $6 million of its money in that bank,” Knott said. “So, they basically bailed him out, and it was an obvious and huge conflict of interest.” The situation led to a Delaware County grand jury investigation and state audit of the university, and The Daily News broke the story during Homecoming Week. “The place went crazy,” Knott said. “They immediately called a press conference, and Indiana media from all over the state came in for this press conference, and they said nothing illegal happened, it’s just a made up story.” Weaver was a student on staff when the story broke, and he said reporting stories like this were some of his greatest learning experiences. “We did some stories while I was there that very much challenged the university administration,” Weaver said. “I learned some valuable lessons in how to defend and explain critical stories that were accurate in a way that was respectful but also firm.”
Threats toward The Daily News began pouring in, and at a faculty meeting the first day of the 1983 spring semester in Emens Auditorium, Knott said Ball State’s President Bell “stood up and blasted The Daily News.” “When he did that, some faculty saw he was getting ready to try to shut us down,” Knott said. “So, they came out and they purchased a huge ad in the paper with all their names signed that said, ‘Keep your hands off The Daily News. Don’t touch ‘em.’” Despite the backlash, The Daily News continued reporting, and eventually, the Indiana state legislature got involved and changed the state law regarding conflict of interest, Knott said. The newspaper and its staff received favorable press coverage in media outlets like the Indianapolis Star for its work, and in 1983, Knott said The Daily News’ coverage of the story was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. “There had never been — and I don’t think still, to this day — another college publication that ever got a Pulitzer Prize [nomination],” Knott said. About a week before prizes were to be announced, Knott said The Daily News started receiving phone calls to the newsroom from newspapers including the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post asking the staff to leave phone lines open at a specific time.
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The Switch to Tabloid
Parkland, Florida, school shooting
Responding to industry-wide changes in publishing and newspapers, The Daily News changed from a broadsheet format that printed multiple times per week to a once-weekly tabloid size.
Seventeen people were killed and 17 others wounded in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting Feb. 14, 2018. The Daily News published a brief in the next day’s paper and featured a story about a planned campus walkout two weeks after the shooting in memory of the students who were killed.
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Maya Wilkins Lifestyles Editor The newsroom is buzzing — designers are laying out pages, photographers are choosing their best photos and reporters are getting their stories completed before their deadline. It’s a college newsroom, but there is a professional aura — one that could be intimidating for younger students, but can also be encouraging and make them hopeful for their future, nonetheless. Gail Werner walked into The Ball State Daily News newsroom her freshman year after being an editor for her high school yearbook and working for the newspaper. For her, it was always between Ball State and Indiana University for school, but she chose Ball State after falling in love with the campus environment. “I remember riding my bike from the north side of campus to come to my first DN meeting, and I was really drawn to the features staff … I wrote some features and then gradually transitioned into news,” said Werner, Ball State executive writer for the president and 2004 Ball State graduate. “I just knew that if I wanted to be a journalist, I needed to get the experience of working for the campus publications.” During Werner’s first year with The Daily News, she worked at the copy desk as well, where
she said all the “brand new” students with the paper initially worked. In her second year with The Daily News, Werner was part of the staff who reported on the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and said she had one of the bylines on the front page. For Werner, spending that entire day in the newsroom reporting was an important memory and “really transformative” for the whole group as students. In her time with The Daily News, Werner said the students working for the paper became a closeknit group who all cared about the product they were putting out. Even more than that, they cared about each other. During her senior year at Ball State, Werner worked for the Muncie Star Press as a higher education reporter until spring 2008, when she was hired to work in the Ball State marketing and communications department. In 2017, Werner was hired for her role as executive writer for the university president. “I feel very fortunate in a way that I have kind of fallen into every position I’ve had, and there seems to be something that keeps me here at the university,” she said. “And I think the reason I’m OK with that is because I really love seeing how much this university has changed and grown.”
Werner said she is “immensely proud” of The Daily News and how it has been around for 100 years, especially with how the print industry has changed. “I think it just speaks to the tradition of this university and the dedication we’ve always had to the purpose of the profession of journalism,” Werner said. “I’m really proud of the tradition of The Daily News, and I’m proud of the way that the student publication has covered this university for a century.” Like Werner, Andrew Walker, Ball State senior communications strategist, also worked for The Daily News when he was in college and said he is proud of the way the paper has changed to fit the changing landscape of journalism. Walker was born and raised in Muncie, and his dad worked for the Star Press. He grew up in newsrooms and said he always knew that was the career path he would take. After graduating from high school in 2007, Walker attended Franklin College to play baseball before transferring to Ball State his freshman year. “I knew — coming to Ball State — I felt like I could make a pretty quick impact coming on board The Daily News staff, even as a freshman,” Walker said. “I started off and just accepted whatever beats were handed to me and then worked my way up.” For Walker, The Daily News best prepared him for a career in journalism because “that’s the real thing,” and he still encourages students in the department to take advantage of the paper. Walker had an internship with the Star Press that turned into a full-time job before working in the NFL for the currently named Washington Commanders as a writer and editor until 2016 when he returned to Indiana to work for the Indianapolis Colts. Returning to Ball State was a “bit of a culture shock” for Walker at first, but he said it’s been nothing but positive.
Jennifer Palilonis, George and Frances Ball distinguished professor of multimedia journalism, is also a Daily News alumna who graduated from Ball State in 1996 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism news and graphics. Palilonis said she always knew she was going to be a journalist. She worked for the Detroit Free Press and the Chicago Sun-Times before returning to Ball State in 2001 to run the journalism graphics sequence. Palilonis said she started out as a reporter for The Daily News “pretty quickly,” and was a chief reporter by the beginning of her sophomore year before working her way up to becoming a news editor. “Like students back then, I pretty much lived in the newsroom,” Palilonis said. “I did quite a bit of time, working five days a week … I did a lot of editing and reporting, and that was just part of my college experience.” At the beginning of her time with The Daily News, Palilonis covered crime in the Muncie community, but by her junior and senior years, she focused more on design. Palilonis said the majority of her career has now been at Ball State as a professor, which is something she never planned on doing and said she “fell in love with teaching in a really weird way.” When she was the art director for the Free Press, the journalism department chair at Wayne State University in Detroit approached her boss looking for someone to teach a design class, and he gave them Palilonis’ name and contact information. “I signed up to teach that class and really fell in love with teaching,” she said. “I never really thought that I was going to teach, and I really didn’t have any intention of doing that.” After working at Wayne State, Palilonis worked at a design academy in Chicago. When Michael Price, former Ball State professor, left
I knew — coming to Ball State — I felt like I could make a pretty quick impact coming on board The Daily News staff, even as a freshman. I started off and just accepted whatever beats were handed to me and then worked my way up.” - ANDREW WALKER, Ball State senior communications strategist “It’s been awesome to be back here in Muncie and on campus and see how much the university has grown since I left just a few years ago,” he said.
the university, Palilnois became the journalism graphics sequence coordinator. “I fell in love with my job at Ball State largely
COVID-19 pandemic
Joe Biden elected president
The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic the morning before Ball State announced it would cancel in-person classes for the remainder of the spring semester starting March 16, 2020. The Daily News made the university’s plan of action its front page and continued to provide updated coverage as best it could to the campus community online and in print.
Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States, according to a Nov. 7, 2020, race call from The Associated Press. The Daily News interviewed students about the election before and after results, and its first spring 2021 paper featured news of Biden’s inauguration on the front page.
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because I really do love working with students, and I love providing students with those realworld opportunities that we do so well at Ball State through immersive learning,” Palilonis said. “It’s pretty meaningful to me … Ball State and the journalism department is living, breathing and so much more than just a job.” Palilonis also said she believes The Daily News has shaped her as a journalist and who she is as a professor, which makes the 100-year anniversary even more special for her. Bobby Ellis, Ball State creative strategist, said he became involved with The Daily News the summer before his freshman year in 2009 and knew right away he wanted to be a photographer. By his senior year, he was The Daily News’ photo editor. “The Daily News just seemed like something guided toward what I wanted to do,” Ellis said. “I could go out and cover different assignments every day.” Ellis said his favorite memories at The Daily News all have to do with the people he met, as he still has friends from the paper who he talks to almost daily. He was also able to travel around the United States for projects he worked on with The Daily News, and he could meet new people and work on a variety of projects.
“The newspaper helped me learn more than I feel like I did in class,” he said. “I knew a lot more coming out of school about how the industry worked.” Looking back at his time with The Daily News, Ellis said he is proud of his work and what he has done but also thinks that’s the culture the paper has built. “I would put [The Daily News] up against any student-run newspaper in the country,” he said. “It may not win, but I honestly don’t think any other student newspaper has that much of acclaim over what [The Daily News does] … it’s on par with anything else.” Brooke Kemp, graduate assistant in the School of Journalism and Strategic Communication, was editor-in-chief of The Daily News from 2019-20, and said it’s “really weird” to think that The Daily News has been around for 100 years and she was part of that history. Kemp said the Unified Media Lab alone attracted her to Ball State, and to get involved her freshman year, she ate lunch in the lab every day until she felt more comfortable. “It was a really cool experience because I had just gotten involved in journalism in general my senior year of high school,” she said. “It was really cool to explore that on a much deeper level
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but also to immediately be welcomed in a way that was like, ‘We trust you, but we’re also going to help you and not expect you to be this rockstar journalist right out the gate.’” During her time with The Daily News, Kemp worked as features editor, managing editor and editor-in-chief. Kemp also had an internship with the Anderson Herald Bulletin during summer 2019 and an internship with the Indianapolis Star in summer 2020, both of which she said she wouldn’t have gotten without The Daily News. “I know it’s cheesy, but it really has gotten me to where I am today,” she said. Kemp said she was “immediately swept up” by The Daily News because of the amount of writing she could do and the types of stories she could tell, and it felt like the place where she could figure out what was best for her. While Kemp was on staff, The Daily News transitioned from printing three days a week to printing once a week, and it also transitioned from a typical broadsheet to tabloid format. She said it was “so cool” to be part of the rebranding and watch a big part of Daily News history take place. Kemp was also part of the group that started the Partnership Project, an annual paper highlighting stories about Muncie Community Schools. “I mean, how often do reporters have something that has never happened before right there in their backyard for them to report on?” Kemp said. “That was amazing to be able to start a big recurring project like that. It’s not often that the gravity of how much you’re contributing to really hits you.” Overall, Kemp said it’s humbling to be part of an organization that has been around for 100 years and to know she has been part of a paper that has had to change while adapting with the times and the changing world of journalism. “There’s not enough words to say how I feel,” she said. “But being part of that history is so cool, and it’s been really weird because it’s only been two years … which is a lifetime and a very short time. The fact that we are at 100 years is just baffling.” Contact Maya Wilkins with comments at mrwilkins@bsu.edu or on Twitter @mayawilkinss.
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Third Consecutive Pacemaker
Russia invades Ukraine
In 2019, 2020 and 2021 The Ball State Daily News staff earned national Pacemaker Awards for exemplary work. Awarded by the Associated Collegiate Press, the Pacemaker is considered to be the Pulitzer Prize of college media.
The Russian military invaded Ukraine and has continued to fight to take control of cities and regions across the country. The Daily News ran a feature about the perspectives of professors and community members with ties to Ukraine in the print paper and has continued to update an online brief with additional news about the conflict.
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Taylor Smith Editor-in-Chief
Grace McCormick News Editor
The Daily News editorial board understands the importance of our past while we work toward the future.
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The center of the front page of the March 30, 1922, edition of The Easterner read, “The Easterner comes forth to fulfill the needs of the school.” With this statement, The Ball State Daily News was born. The staff of The Easterner reported for the Indiana State Normal School - Eastern Division, and maintained its name when that school became the Ball State Teachers College, soon after its initial publication. The publication began to outgrow its name, and by Feb. 26, 1937, The Easterner officially changed its name to The Ball State News. Although the staff of this edition called the previous name a “misnomer,” they reiterated the previous paper’s thought that, “As the school grows, the paper will grow right along with it.” The Ball State News changed once more to The Ball State Daily News Sept. 12, 1968, and has made history under that name for the past 50 years. Despite the name remaining static since then, the paper has held true to its mission and continues to grow with the student body. In 1995, The Daily News launched its first website, a simple directory of archived material and HTML versions of articles. The website was relaunched every few years until its current version was revealed to readers in 2018. The Daily News, though, has evolved in more ways than its digital presence. Throughout its 100-year history, the publication mostly maintained a large, broadsheet format; in 2017, that was changed to the current square, tabloid format to prioritize innovative new design and photography philosophies. The Daily News has strived to evolve and
change with its community. Through the persistent determination of each editorial board to make the paper better, we aim to raise our editorial standards for captivating articles, powerful photos, eye-catching designs and an engaging online presence. The Daily News’ history since our beginnings has been full of storied achievements and moments of excellence for our staff and readers alike. In terms of awards, The Daily News has earned multiple Associated Collegiate Press (ACP) Pacemaker awards, unofficially known as the Pulitzer Prize of collegiate journalism. When the ACP founded its collegiate journalism Hall of Fame in 1987, The Daily News was part of its inaugural class of inductees. As such, it is each year’s editorial board’s purpose and expectation to uphold the standards and achievements generations of student journalists before us set. Beyond ACP recognition, The Daily News has been widely associated with quality since its beginnings. The National Scholastic Press Association, an early predecessor to the ACP, rated The Daily News as an “All-American Newspaper” as early as 1930, its highest classification for papers of its kind at the time, just eight years into our publication history. That rare standard of consistently high quality since our inception keeps our ambitions high to this day. The Daily News has also earned Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA) Gold Crown honors for overall excellence in print and online content, spanning writing, editing, design, photography and more. Staff writers
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and editors have also earned individual honors from ACP and CSPA for design, writing and reporting. Alumni who have graduated from our paper have gone onto lead newsrooms at USA Today and work at countless prestigious and respected newspapers in the United States. The Daily News continues to offer a training ground for young journalists to learn and develop their crafts, for which they can later be recognized for their determination and excellence. The awards The Daily News has received and its expectations to strive for greatness come from the love of our community. Without the student body’s support and courageous mentors from all departments, The Daily News would not be able to say it has been publishing as a watchdog of Muncie for a century. The Muncie community and student body of Ball State’s campus create the news our staff has the opportunity to cover, and without our readers, we’d have no purpose at all. The past 100 years, we have been dedicated to telling stories related to community development and news that can change the world. The Daily News has proven it reports for the people — from publishing same-sex partner profiles in the 1980s to coverage of a 2020 student protest after a professor called the police on a Black student during class. The Daily News has been there, and we will continue to be. Through university athlete wins, national crises and the fear of COVID-19 freezing the world for months, The Daily News kept its readers informed. It hasn’t always been easy,
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but the resilience of The Daily News this past century has been dedicated to the community we serve as storytellers, and we are thankful for the 100 years of role models and readers who have helped get us where we are. The past few years, we have seen people’s perceptions of journalism change. We have seen some people turn their backs on newspapers and the work we do as journalists, calling us liars and fakes. We have seen people in power degrade the work we do. This is the turn of a corner for not just The Daily News, but journalism as a whole — as we enter this new environment where our work may not be valued. However, as The Daily News turns 100 and we celebrate, we realize our jobs now are as important as ever. The work doesn’t stop just because we’ve turned 100. In fact, the work has just started. It is clear, as we look at the past 100 years of The Daily News, that our newspaper has seen changes some of us can’t even fathom experiencing. It has looked hardship in the face more times than any of us will in a lifetime. The changes and obstacles The Daily News has seen over the past 100 years will continue to test our paper for as long as the news landscape changes, but true storytellers – at their core — will always remain true storytellers. The Daily News, as long as true storytellers stand behind it, will remain a reliable, credible, historical source of information for the Ball State community and beyond, hopefully for another 100 years to come. - The Daily News Editorial Board
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John Lynch
Opinion Editor
Maggie Getzin Creative Director
Rylan Capper Photo Editor
Sophie Nulph
Associate Opinion Editor
Alex Hindenlang Visual Editor
Grace Duerksen
Associate Photo Editor
Adele Reich Video Editor
Kamryn Tomlinson Visual Editor
Amber Pietz
Associate Photo Editor
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HOROSCOPE FOR MARCH 31, 2022 Written by: Nancy Black
ARIES March 21-April 19 Today is a 9 — You’re getting stronger. Energize personal projects. Carve out time in your schedule. Nurture your own passion to increase productivity and satisfaction. Develop new tricks. TAURUS April 20-May 20 Today is a 7 - Find a private spot to get lost in thought. Imagine, create and invent. Develop a brilliant idea. Revise plans around new circumstances. Consider possibilities.
GEMINI May 21-June 20 Today is an 8 - Play your part to advance a common dream. Envision what could be possible. Share solutions with allies, friends and partners. Invite participation. Collaborate. CANCER June 21-July 22 Today is an 8 - Find a professional opportunity and go for it. Someone important is paying attention. Go the extra mile. Do your best work. Give thanks.
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That was helpful because you knew that if Dave wrote the words ‘good grief’ above one of your stories, you had an issue that you needed to address and think about.”
LEO July 23-Aug. 22 Today is an 8 - Expand territory. Take advantage of excellent conditions. An adventure develops naturally. Explore a curious mystery. Study potential solutions to a challenge. Investigate possibilities. VIRGO Aug. 23-Sept. 22 Today is an 8 - Astute financial management grows your shared accounts. Study the situation and strategize for success. Invest time and money for future gain. Profit from collaboration.
“Obviously, we thought, ‘Well, we won that thing,’” Knott said. Mark Popovich was department chair at the time, and he, Knott and the rest of The Daily News staff gathered around a teletype and the cake Popovich ordered for the occasion and watched the machine dispense ticker tape, announcing the winners one by one. “Everybody’s in this little room with this thing going, ‘tick, tick, tick, tick,’” Knott said, “and we were never mentioned. We didn’t get it, and it was such a let down, mainly because we were led to believe we were going to win it.” For weeks afterward, Knott said he remembers Ingelhart making phone calls to friends all over the country to figure out what happened and why The Daily News didn’t win. “Nobody would tell him,” Knott said, “but we finally came to the conclusion that somebody probably heard about [our nomination] and said they didn’t want a college paper to [win a Pulitzer].” The ticker tape finished dispensing, and the “tick, tick, tick” of the teletype fell silent. Contact Taylor Smith with comments at tnsmith6@bsu.edu or on Twitter @taywrites.
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LIBRA Sept. 23-Oct. 22 Today is an 8 - Keep promises and bargains, especially with your partner. Together, you’re a powerful force. Rely on each other for support. Set realistic goals and achieve them. SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21 Today is a 9 - Prioritize health, fitness and vitality. Do what you know works. Stretch, practice your moves and get your heart pumping. Natural beauty inspires and uplifts.
SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21 Today is an 8 - Discover hidden beauty and sweetness. Love opens your heart. Keep your feet on the ground. Get outside to play in the sunshine. Enjoy attractive company. CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19 Today is a 7 - Settle into the comforts of home. Make upgrades and repairs for increased beauty and functionality. It doesn’t need to get expensive. Savor family recipes and traditions.
AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18 Today is an 8 - Write, edit and record. Research and sift through data. Compile your discoveries. Revise the plot. Express your message and share it with the world. PISCES Feb. 19-March 20 Today is a 9 - Lucrative opportunities await. Your ideas are attracting attention. Overcome old fears. Apply yourself to advancing a profitable venture. Balance expenses for positive cash flow.
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