I have a question.  How much control does Duke really have over what is published in the Chronicle or on the website.  Does Duke ever suggests that the Chronicle print an article or ask that the Chronicle not to print an article?  Does Duke give the Chronicle money? 
 
Best regards,
Tom

Hi Tom,

The Chronicle prides itself on its editorial freedom. The daily newspaper went independent of The University in 1993, when the organization incorporated as The Duke Student Publishing Company, a non-profit. Duke has no control over anything The Chronicle publishes–in print or online. Like any source, Duke administrators might make requests, but these are weighed no more carefully than any others. Duke does not provide money to The Chronicle; funding is generated through advertising and subscriptions.

Thanks,

Chelsea Allison

I only wish I had a mailbag brimming with letters, with queries, with leads. Instead I’ve got a sticky-note collage framing my loaded e-mail inbox, scraps of paper and labeled, colored archived reminders of news we’ve found fitting. But as our staff pours itself into each paper, coaxing each word of copy into columns, I don’t want these words to become static.

That’s where you come in, dear reader.

Drum off a response. Question an article, a column, some word choice. Question us. I open my electronic mailbag for you (and from you, really), because, as former Chronicle editor Seyward Darby wrote, a good paper should be more than just words on a page. Besides, we’ve often got a mouthful—let us hear what you’ve got to say.

—Chelsea Allison