Daily Collegian

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The Daily Collegian
Front page of the Daily Collegian0 on January 16, 2020
TypeStudent newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
SchoolPennsylvania State University
Owner(s)Collegian Inc.
Editor-in-chiefAmy Schafer
Managing editorsAlex Osman, Sam Woloson
General managerWayne Lowman
Opinion editorMaddie Seelig
Staff writers130[1]
FoundedApril 18, 1887; 137 years ago (1887-04-18)[2]
LanguageEnglish
HeadquartersWillard Building
CityState College, Pennsylvania, U.S.
CountryUnited States
Circulation5,000 (as of Feb. 2020)
Websitepsucollegian.com
Free online archivescollegian.psu.edu/pdf
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The Daily Collegian is a student-produced news outlet, with a newspaper and website, that is published independently at the Pennsylvania State University. The newspaper is printed once a week during the fall and spring semesters, and not at all during the summer semester. It is distributed for free at Penn State University Park, the university's main campus, and mailed to paid subscribers across the country.[3][4][5][6]

Collegian Inc., which publishes the Daily Collegian, is an independent, nonprofit corporation and has a board of directors that is composed of faculty, students, and professionals.[7] The mission statement of Collegian Inc. is "to publish a quality campus newspaper and to provide a rewarding educational experience for the student staff members."[8]

The Daily Collegian has historically been considered one of the top student-run college newspapers in the United States receiving multiple notable journalism awards including National Pacemaker Awards, top rankings from The Princeton Review, and Sigma Delta Chi Awards.[9][10][11]

The Daily Collegian traces its founding back to the Free Lance, a monthly student magazine published by students and faculty of Pennsylvania State University, which began printing in April 1887. The Free Lance struggled structurally and financially eventually disbanding in April 1904.[12] The next semester, in October 1904, the State Collegian emerged with much of the same leadership as the previous publication.[12][13] The name of the publication was changed to the Penn State Collegian in 1911, and the paper began publishing on a semi-weekly basis in September 1920. The success of semi-weekly printing lead the paper to began publishing daily in 1940, changing its name to the Daily Collegian.[14]

In 1996, the Daily Collegian began pursuing a larger digital presence, creating The Digital Collegian in 1996, the publications website that provides online access to articles digitally and print stories dating from 1988 to the present. Daily printing continued until 2017, when the Daily Collegian announced it would move away from printing five days a week and would instead print twice a week, on Mondays and Thursdays.[15] The shift was made as a majority of the publication's readership was coming from its online publication.[16][17]

  1. ^ "Personnel". The Daily Collegian. 9 January 2019.
  2. ^ Stewart, James A. (14 April 1987). "Untitled Article Published Tuesday, April 14, 1987". The Daily Collegian.
  3. ^ "The Daily Collegian HuffPost". www.huffpost.com.
  4. ^ Cheney, Debora. "The Campus Newspaper—From Newspaper to Digital Archive, the Libraries' Role and Responsibilities" (PDF).
  5. ^ "The Daily Collegian (University Park, Pa.) 1940-Current". Library of Congress.
  6. ^ "History Unfolded: US Newspapers and the Holocaust". newspapers.ushmm.org.
  7. ^ [1] Archived November 26, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ [2] Archived September 4, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ [3] Archived June 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ [4] Archived November 24, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ "Princeton Review rates University Daily Kansan as 6th best college newspaper | The University Daily Kansan". Archived from the original on 2013-01-27. Retrieved 2012-08-23.
  12. ^ a b [5] Archived March 20, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  13. ^ The Collegian chronicles : a history of Penn State from the pages of The Daily Collegian, 1887-2006. University Park, PA: Collegian Alumni Interest Group. 2006. ISBN 1-4243-1316-3. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
  14. ^ [6] Archived August 31, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  15. ^ Sam Ruland; Lauren Davis; Mark Fischer (8 December 2017). "At 130 years, The Daily Collegian says goodbye to daily print. But our mission remains the same". The Daily Collegian.
  16. ^ "Changes coming to The Daily Collegian | What the future holds for Penn State's independent student media outlet". 6 November 2017.
  17. ^ SCHACKNER, BILL. "PSU's Daily Collegian no longer daily — at least not in print". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.