Washington Square News (WSN) is the weekly student newspaper of New York University (NYU).

In late September 2020, the entire staff of WSN resigned after disagreements with the university over their faculty advisor.

It serves the student population by helping with opportunities for reporting, writing, editing, coding, photography, video production, design, illustration and business.

[4] The paper is editorially and financially independent from the university and is solely responsible in selling advertisements to fund its production, with an average cost of US$350,000 annually.

[7] In 2003, the paper won seven first-place awards in the Division 1 "Better College Newspaper Contest" of the New York State Press Association.