The Daily Pennsylvanian Alumni Association
Your generosity has helped to remove barriers to participation for deserving student leaders at The Daily Pennsylvanian. We thank you!
For the first time in DP history, we’re compensating board members with 2,000 dollar stipends. These stipends acknowledge the work students do–often at the expense of their studies–to keep campus informed.
The DPAA wants to extend a congratulations to Dick Stevenson! The New York Times has promoted Dick Stevenson, a former DP Executive Editor, to Washington editor. This is the second-highest position in that office.
The promotion is effective immediately and gives Stevenson responsibility for the Time’s Supreme Court coverage and helping manage the bureau in addition to his previous duties as its enterprise editor.
President Biden has chosen economist (and DP alum) Gene Sperling to oversee the rollout of the $1.9 trillion coronavirus recovery act, leaning on the longtime Democratic adviser’s expertise to deliver on promises including $1,400 checks to millions of Americans.
Read more about it on NPR here.
Congratulations to Isabella Simonetti from the entire DPAA family! She is the winner of this year’s Nora Magid Mentorship Prize at the University of Pennsylvania. Isabella spent four years at The Daily Pennsylvanian, where she just finished her term as President, navigating the organization through one of it’s most challenging years in recent history. She was also a finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship. Beginning in June, she will be a news intern at Bloomberg News in New York.—