DailyCardinal.com is the newspaper of the University of Wisconsin
Title
The Daily Cardinal
Description
The Daily Cardinal, the nation’s oldest independent student newspaper, remains a prominent voice for UW-Madison’s student body and surrounding community. It has covered six wars, followed 20 presidential terms and reported on and surrounded itself with political controversy.
Four hundred free copies of the paper were first distributed April 4, 1892 after 75 students, out of 1,500 total college kids enrolled at UW-Madison, discussed the need for a university paper. The founder and first editor, William Wesley Young, would race his horse down State Street to the offices of the Madison Democrat where the printer was located for the first month of the Cardinal’s production.
Today, the Cardinal prints 10,000 copies of the paper per day. The staff, comprised of more than 150 members, puts out a paper five days per week. Young, who was also UW-Madison’s first journalism major, founded the Cardinal with the purpose of rivaling an existing publication, the Aegis and, more importantly, creating a learning institution for students at the university. Still today, The Daily Cardinal takes pride in its reputation as a well-respected learning institution.
Languages
English
Address
- 821 University Ave. / 2142 Vilas Hall
- Madison WI 53706 US
Contact
- Daily Cardinal Media Corporation, Business Manager
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- +1 608 262 5854, Fax: +1 608 262 0404
Additional Information
Related Domains
External Links
- Alexa: DailyCardinal.com
