Every week, The Huntington News staff gather in Holmes Hall to pitch stories, attend workshops and meet with editors. On Feb. 24, 1926, Northeastern students congregated in a similar manner in an office at 306 Huntington Ave. to prepare the first print edition of The Northeastern...

Tucked away in an office on the fourth floor of the Ell Student Center, every Monday, 21-year-old Dan Kennedy hunched over a manual typewriter as young journalists scurried around the newsroom. Only breaking for a quick dinner, the team worked through the night to put together...

In 2007, Richard “Ricky” Thompson was elected editor-in-chief of The Northeastern News. During his tenure, he led the charge on one of the most significant changes in the paper’s century of operation: making it independent from the university. Thompson joined The Northeastern...

When Kelly Chan started at Northeastern in the fall of 2019, life was normal. Students packed into classrooms during the day and attended house parties at night. But when COVID-19 hit in March 2020, everything changed. Classrooms emptied and faces were hidden behind masks...

Kimberly Roots didn’t need Entertainment Weekly to end up in her dream career. She just needed The Northeastern News. Roots, the current editor-in-chief of TVLine, an entertainment news site, served as The Northeastern News’ style editor from 1999 to 2000. The Northeastern...

Before he was interviewing President Donald Trump for The New York Times, Zolan Kanno-Youngs’ beat was Northeastern baseball.  For his first assignment with The Huntington News, he met with long-time baseball coach Neil McPhee before the start of the 2012 season. When he...

Larry Rothstein didn’t always put the “student” in “student journalist.” Oftentimes, above classes, The Northeastern News came first. In 1971, he was a fifth-year political science major and editor-in-chief of The News during a particularly restless news cycle. His...

John Ellement did not always aspire to be a journalist; he simply fell into it.  Ellement has always enjoyed writing, but his high school plan consisted of writing novels, not articles.  Following the Watergate scandal, which came to a head in 1974, the public was intrigued...