The University of Pennsylvania’s oldest independent student newspaper, The Daily Pennsylvanian, has a proud history of reportorial excellence, sending its graduates to work at many once-storied American newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times and The Washington Post. The writer Buzz Bissinger, winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for reporting and author of Friday Night Lights, is a Daily alumnus, as is the novelist Erik Larsen. Other alumni include U.S. senators and members of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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