The Chronicle of Higher Education
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The Chronicle of Higher Education is a newspaper that is a source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty and administration. Based in Washington, DC, The Chronicle is published every weekday online and appears weekly in print except the last two weeks in August and the last two weeks in December (a total of 49 issues a year). In print, The Chronicle is published in three sections: the news section; The Chronicle Review, a magazine of arts and ideas; and Careers, with career advice and job listings.
The Chronicle of Higher Education also publishes The Chronicle of Philanthropy, a newspaper for the nonprofit world; The Chronicle Guide to Grants, an electronic database of corporate and foundation grants; and the web portal Arts & Letters Daily.
The Chronicle was founded in 1966 by Corbin Gwaltney, who had been the founder and editor of the alumni magazine of The Johns Hopkins University. In 1993, it was one of the first newspapers to appear on the Internet, as a Gopher service.
Over the years, the paper has been a finalist and winner of many journalism awards. It was a finalist for a National Magazine Award in 2005 for a special report on plagiarism among academics. It has been a finalist for the award every year from 2001 to 2005.
