[1] It is a digital-first publication with daily online content and a monthly print edition on Thursday during the academic year.

[2] Commonly called the FreeP, The Daily Free Press began publishing May 5, 1970 in response to violent student protests on campus in the wake of the Kent State shootings.

Given increasingly tight finances for newspapers and declining advertising revenue, the paper decided to discontinue its Friday issue.

The FreeP began publishing a news, arts and opinion blog in 2011, called The Daily Free Now, online at blog.dailyfreepress.com.

The FreeP launched "The Next Edition," a one-day networking conference for student journalists, in Spring of 2018, when it was hosted at Boston University's Photonics Center.

Beginning in Fall 2022, the FreeP introduced co-editor positions[7] for nearly all sections to continue promoting wellness in the newsroom.

Editors also implemented a hybrid approach to limit the spread of COVID-19 pandemic that remains in place today, as part of the paper's commitment to student health.

Beginning in September 2014, the website became the publication's primary daily publishing platform, as it switched to a weekly print model.

In 2011, Back Bay Publishing Co., Inc., the governing body of The Daily Free Press, announced that it had paid off a $78,000 debt to its printers Turley Publications, Inc. by way of an advertising advance from the Boston University Dean of Students office.

In 2014, Back Bay Publishing Co., Inc. announced that The Daily Free Press had paid off approximately $70,000 in debt, with monies raised in a crowd funding campaign.