The Tufts Daily, known on campus as the Daily, is the student newspaper of record at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. The paper covers news, arts and sports both on campus and in the greater Boston area and allows members of the Tufts community to submit opinion pieces about campus, local and global issues. Unlike other student organizations and publications at Tufts, the Daily is financially self-sustaining and does not receive funding from the university.^[2]

The Tufts Daily has consistently ranked as one of the best college newspapers in the United States.^[3][4][5]

The first issue of The Tufts Daily was published on February 25, 1980.^[6] During the Daily's first two decades, it was engaged in competition with a weekly campus newspaper, the Tufts Observer.^[7] The two newspapers co-existed until 2001, when The Observer changed to a biweekly news magazine format.^[8] Since then, the Daily has been the newspaper of record at Tufts.

The Daily made national headlines in November 2017 after publishing a series of op-eds written by Camilo A. Caballero, a graduate student at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, which voiced support for a student-led petition to remove former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci from The Fletcher School's Board of Advisors. Caballero wrote that Scaramucci's "career and ideals are diametrically opposed to those ideas and who sullies the vision of the University."^[9] Claiming defamation, Scaramucci threatened to sue the Daily if it did not retract parts of the op-eds and demanded that both the paper and Caballero issue public apologies.^[10] Scaramucci resigned from the Board of Advisors on November 28 after the paper refused to comply with his demands, stating, "I thought it would be better for the school and better for me personally if we parted ways."^[11]

On November 1, 2018, the Daily broke a national story about the appearance of posters linked to white nationalism on college campuses across the United States.^[12] The paper reported that the posters, which were affixed to get-out-the-vote signs on Tufts' campus, bore the phrase "It's okay to be white" — a slogan adopted and promoted by white nationalists, including former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan David Duke.^[13]

The Daily published an investigative report in November 2018 detailing over $22 million in donations to Tufts from charitable organizations with histories of funding academically and racially controversial research, including the Charles Koch Foundation, the John Templeton Foundation, and the Sarah Scaife Foundation.^[14] The investigative series, titled "Dark Money at Tufts," cited examples in which the organizations have been given influence over hiring decisions and academic curricula after donating to other universities and reported that Tufts administrators and faculty are "often unaware of, or uninterested in, donors' philanthropic record and relevant interests."^[15]

In March 2022, Tufts Daily Deputy News Editor Emily Thompson and Editor in Chief Alexander Janoff were sued by local landlord and orthodontist Mouhab Rizkallah over Thompson's reporting on a protest against Rizkallah's negligent treatment of his tenants.^{[16] [17]} Rizkallah accused Thompson and Janoff of defamation, saying Thompson's article misrepresented the comment he gave to the Daily for her story.^[18] Thompson and Janoff maintained that the article was accurate as published, and the suit was ultimately dismissed with prejudice.^[18] Prior to dismissal, it garnered coverage from the Boston Globe and Teen Vogue, among other publications.^[16][19]

The Daily has six sections of original written content (News, Features, Sports, Arts, Science and Investigative), as well as an Opinion section that includes op-ed submissions from community members, bylined content from Opinions staffers and editorials written by the paper's editorial board. The Daily has three multimedia sections — audio, video and photo — along with a production department that contains the layout, copy, graphics and social media sections.

The Daily partners with the news aggregator applications Apple News and NewsBreak.^[26]

During the 2020–21 academic year, the Daily reduced print production to at most once per week due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[27] However, the Daily continued to layout the paper nightly for online reading on Issuu.^[28] Due to the change in print schedule, the Daily focused on producing special edition issues, including the 2020 Election Guide, Jumbo Month edition, Commencement edition, and COVID-19 at Tufts: A Year in Review.

During the 2021–2022 academic year, the Daily increased print production to biweekly and continued printing special issues, such as the Community at Tufts edition and the 2022 Daily Week edition celebrating the paper's 42nd anniversary.

• Daniel Barbarisi, The Athletic senior editor, former New York Yankees beat reporter for The Wall Street Journal^[29]
• Carrie Battan, The New Yorker staff writer
• Christopher Bodeen, Associated Press Beijing correspondent
• Geoff Edgers, The Washington Post national arts reporter
• Bob Goodman, director of user experience and strategy at 829 Studios
• Patrick Healy, The New York Times Deputy Editor of Opinion^[30]
• Karen Israel, producer for Dateline NBC
• David J. Kramer, former United States Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
• Elizabeth Landers, CNN White House producer
• Tony Massarotti, former Boston Globe sportswriter and Boston sports radio personality^[29]
• Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay^[31]
• Anthony Scaramucci, former White House Communications Director^[32]
• Caroline Schaefer, former executive editor of Us Weekly
• Remy Stern, New York Post chief digital officer and former editor-in-chief of Gawker
• Chris Stone, L.A. Times Executive Sports Editor, former editor-in-chief of Sports Illustrated^[29]
• Colin Woodard, author, POLITICO contributing editor and writer at the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram