Varsity (Cambridge) and a separate editor controls a special edition May Week issue (or, in some years, daily May Week issues) at the end of the academic year. Many of those who wrote for the paper during their student days have since gone on to achieve distinction in later life. Famous ex-editors include the BBC news presenters Jeremy Paxman and David Frost, film director Michael Winner, the television presenter Richard Whiteley, former "Financial Times" editor Andrew Gowers, "Independent" editor Amol Rajan, "i" editor Oliver Duff, novelist Robert Harris, novelist and biographer Graham Lord, historian Jonathan Spence, Factory Records founder Tony Wilson and
The Daily News (Batavia) the managing editor of the paper. A 2009 poll in "The Batavian", another local paper, indicated that 37.2% of respondents felt that partisanship did not figure into The Daily News' coverage, while 23.4% of respondents felt it leaned Republican, and 17.9% felt it leaned Democrat. 21.1% answered "not sure." Tiffany Towner, a former managing editor at The Daily News, was selected for "Editor & Publisher's" 2017 "25 under 35" list of the “next generation of newspaper publishing leaders.” In 2017, The Daily News gained recognition at the New York Press Association's Better Newspaper Awards in a number of categories, including