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About The Daily Toreador
The Daily Toreador (formerly The University Daily) operates under the division of Student Affairs & Enrollment Management and is classified as a student organization. The publication is independent of the College of Mass Communications and/or any other faculty, staff or administrative control. The Daily Toreador serves the community at the direction of the editorial board, which is comprised of students from all classifications and majors.
The editorial staff is comprised of about 30 students representing all classifications and majors. Each staff member is dedicated to covering the Texas Tech campus and community in an aggressive, timely manner.
News, features and sports reporters are required to turn in at least one story each day from their assigned beats. Each reporter is assigned a beat or section of the campus/community to cover.
Traditionally, news beats include:
- Administration
- Student Affairs
- Public affairs
- Health Sciences Center
- Law school and graduate school
- Each college within the university
To find out who covers your area or college, call 806-742-3393.
Editorial board members manage the staff and direct daily content. Tech students create all stories, editorials, photographs and graphics, as well as the newspaper itself. The editorial advisers, who work with students, critique the staff’s work for libel, obscenity, invasion of privacy and obstruction of the educational process. Neither the editorial advisers nor any other Tech employee dictate the content of the newspaper. Responsibility for the editorial content of the newspaper lies solely with the student editors.
The Daily Toreador’s Opinions page serves as a forum for the Tech community to voice opinions and viewpoints about current events and issues. The editorial board is responsible for writing editorials about the campus, local, national and international issues. The Daily Toreador has columnists whose columns appear regularly on the Opinions page. Guest columns and letters to the editor also are accepted. Columns, letters and artwork represent the opinions of their authors/creators and are not necessarily representative of the editorial board, Texas Tech University, its employees, its student body or the Texas Tech University Board of Regents.
Getting coverage in The Daily Toreador
The award-winning Daily Toreador strives to provide the broadest possible coverage of the Texas Tech community. Have something you’d like to see in the paper? Send a news release or contact us. Whenever possible, please provide advance notice (at least two or three days) of planned campus events.
Letters to the editor and guest columns
Letters to the editor are accepted for publication on the Opinions page. To be considered for publication, letters must:
- Be signed. Anonymous letters will not be accepted for publication.
- Be no longer than two typed, double-spaced pages (or 300 words).
- Include the author’s name, signature, phone number and the last 4 digits of of Social Security number (phone number and Social Security number are needed for verification only; this information will not be published).
- Include information pertaining to author’s university affiliation (classification, major, organization, etc.).
- The editor reserves the right to edit letters.
Letters may be dropped off at the newsroom or sent via e-mail.
Guest columns also are welcome and may be submitted to the opinions editor.
News/photo tips
Know of something interesting going on at Texas Tech that you think others might want or need to know about? Call us.
Student Media building, Room 211
806-742-3393 (newsroom)
806-742-2434 (fax)
DailyToreador@ttu.edu
www.dailytoreador.com