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 National Sports Daily sports news that they could find in their local publications, or the nationally-distributed "USA Today" by comparison, for fifty cents or even less. Despite a last-ditch effort to start an online distribution through Compuserve, which was one of the earliest Internet providers, the declining circulation was enough for "The National" to announce it was ceasing publication. On June 13, 1991, "The National" put out its final issue with its front cover reading "We Had A Ball: The fat lady sings our song." The National Sports Daily The National Sports Daily, simply referred to as The National, was a sports-centered newspaper