The Daily Cardinal

The Daily Cardinal
Daily Cardinal newspaper box featuring Fall 2015 Welcome Back issue
TypeStudent newspaper
FormatTabloid
SchoolUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
Owner(s)The Daily Cardinal Media Corporation
Editor-in-chiefFrancesca Pica
Managing editorAva Menkes
Founded1892
Political alignmentModerate, leaning Liberal
HeadquartersMadison, WI, U.S.
Websitedailycardinal.com

The Daily Cardinal is a student newspaper that serves the University of Wisconsin–Madison community. One of the oldest student newspapers in the country,[1] it began publishing on Monday, April 4, 1892.[2] The newspaper is financially and editorially independent of the university.

The Cardinal's motto, printed at the bottom of every front page and taken from an 1894 declaration by the university's board of regents, is "...the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found."

  1. ^ Kayla Johnson. "New editor ready to take charge Archived 2011-07-09 at the Wayback Machine". The Daily Cardinal, May 4, 2011.
  2. ^ Ariel Shapiro. "A tradition of centuries past carries on[permanent dead link]". The Daily Cardinal, November 5, 2009.