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Courtesy "A Century in Focus" Hatchet staff members and GW officials attend the opening of the paper's townhouse at 2140 G St. in August 1993, after the paper attained financial and editorial independence from the University.
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Independence Day
After 89 years, The Hatchet receives editorial and financial freedom
by Liz Bartolomeo
Features Editor
Throughout The Hatchet's 100-year history, the newspaper has tracked the progress of an ever-changing University. The staff of student editors, writers and photographers covers the news of GW and its community, and since its founding in 1904, The Hatchet has been the voice of the student population. However, for the first 89 years of The Hatchet, its publisher was the very institution of which paper was often most critical GW.
"Independence was a nice idea, but it was not on the agenda at the time," said Hatchet general manager Steven Morse, remembering the paper at the end of the 1980s. "I never knew two years from then the paper would be independent."
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