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<a href="#staff">Our Staff</a><br /> <a href="#history">History</a><br /> <a href="#mission">Mission Statement</a><br /> <a href="#governance"></a></p> </blockquote> <h2><a></a>High Points</h2> <p>Stories published by the <i>Yale Alumni Magazine</i> in the past several years have been covered on <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB114705004282246274.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the front page of the <i>Wall Street Journal</i></a> and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/us/11prayer.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the front page</a> and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/opinion/sunday/douthat-eugenics-past-and-future.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion pages of the <i>New York Times</i></a>.</p> <p>We publish original work by outstanding writers. <a href="http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/03_07/summerreading.html">Tom Wolfe</a>, Pulitzer Prize winner <a href="http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2010_01/whitman3235.html">Michael Cunningham</a>, National Book Award winners <a href="http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2011_07/arts_summerreading.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Julia Glass</a> and <a href="http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2010_07/suicide4657.html">Andrew Solomon</a>, and <i>New York Times</i> Sunday Review editor <a href="http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2008_05/buckley_tanenhaus.html">Sam Tanenhaus</a> have all appeared in our pages. We also publish work by first-class writers whose names aren’t as well known (yet).</p> <p>We’ve won two gold awards from <i>Folio:</i>, the trade magazine of the magazine industry, since 2004. In 2012, in the CASE national alumni magazine competition, <a href="http://www.yalealumnimagazine.org/issues/2011_11/feature_prum.html">we won a “Grand Gold” for best article published</a>. The “Grand Gold” is an optional award that the judges rarely give; the previous one was given in 2006.</p> <h2><a></a>The Basics</h2> <p>The print version of the <i>Yale Alumni Magazine</i> is published bimonthly and distributed to more than 135,000 alumni of Yale—nearly all the alumni for whom Yale has viable mailing addresses. Some 5,000 faculty and staff also receive the magazine.</p> <p>The magazine’s archives are available online at yalealumnimagazine.com, where we also publish several blogs that keep alumni up to date with happenings on campus and with Yale alumni news.</p> <p>To contact the editors, to advertise, or to donate, go to <a href="http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/contact">Contact</a>.</p> <h2><a></a>Our Staff</h2> <blockquote> <p><a href="mailto:peggy.kalb@yale.edu">Peggy Edersheim Kalb ’86</a>, acting editor in chief<br /> <a href="mailto:mark.branch@yale.edu">Mark Alden Branch ’86</a>, executive editor<br /> <a href="mailto:ellen.cole@yale.edu">Ellen Z. Cole</a>, alumni notes & school notes editor<br /> Bruce Fellman, contributing writer<br /><a href="mailto:jeanine.dunn@yale.edu">Jeanine Dunn</a>, art director<br /><a href="mailto:jill.perno@yale.edu">Jill Perno</a>, classified advertising manager<br /><a href="mailto:alison.wehrle@yale.edu">Alison Wehrle</a>, advertising sales manager<br /><a href="mailto:theresa.holder@yale.edu"></a><a href="mailto:theresa.sikora@yale.edu">Theresa Sikora</a>, operations manager</p> </blockquote> <p>The <i>Yale Alumni Magazine</i> is honored to have Laura R. Handman ’73, Esq., as Media Law Adviser and and Greg Zorthian ’75 as Publishing Adviser.</p> <p>This website was designed in collaboration with Andy Pressman, of <a href="http://rumors-studio.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rumors</a>.</p> <h2><a></a>History</h2> <p>The <i>Yale Alumni Magazine</i> was founded as the <i>Yale Alumni Weekly</i> in 1891 by the student editors of the <i>Yale Daily News</i>. In the first issue, its founders declared that the publication was to be “run exclusively for the benefit of the graduates.” It was to “serve as an organ for the expression of graduate opinion upon topics concerning the welfare and interest of Yale” and to “act as a bond between the Alumni themselves and between the Alumni and the University.”</p> <p>After a few years, the <i>Daily News</i> sold the new publication to two alumni, who ran it privately until 1909. In that year, the Yale Publishing Association was founded as publisher of the <i>Weekly</i>, governed by a nonprofit corporation “formed to hold [the YPA] in trust for the Yale graduates at large.” In 1937, the Alumni Board of Yale incorporated the nonprofit Yale Alumni Publications, Inc., to take over publication of what was soon renamed the <i>Yale Alumni Magazine. </i>In July 2015, Yale Alumni Publications, Inc., and Yale University <a href="https://news.yale.edu/2015/06/01/new-business-model-announced-yale-alumni-magazine">agreed</a> that the magazine would become a department of Yale. Yale Alumni Publications, Inc., was dissolved in 2021. An Editorial Advisory Board that includes journalists, faculty, alumni, and Yale administrators provides advice and oversight to the magazine's staff.<i><br /></i></p> <h2><a></a>Mission Statement</h2> <blockquote> <p>The magazine shall be a principal means of communication among alumni, the Yale University community, and others interested in Yale.</p> <p>The magazine should impartially explore the achievements, issues, and problems of the University—of its administration, faculty, and student body—in order to convey a complete, fair, and accurate understanding of Yale today. In addition, the magazine shall record news of the alumni, providing them with a continued sense of belonging to the University.</p> <p>In all that it does, the <i>Yale Alumni Magazine</i> should strive for high standards of excellence in editorial content and design and seek to advance the long-term best interests of the University and the alumni. 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