{{Short description|University of Iowa student newspaper}} {{More citations needed|date=September 2014}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = The Daily Iowan | image = Daily Iowan.jpg | caption = | type = Student newspaper | format = Broadsheet | founded = 1868 | headquarters = E141 Adler Journalism Building<br />Iowa City, IA 52242<br />United States | editor = Roxy Ekberg | publisher = Jason Brummond | circulation = 6,500 | website = [http://dailyiowan.com/ dailyiowan.com] }}
'''''The Daily Iowan''''' is an independent, 6,500-circulation student newspaper serving Iowa City and the University of Iowa community. During the 2020–2021 academic year ''The Daily Iowan'' transitioned from printing daily to producing a print edition of the paper twice a week and publishing stories online daily. It has consistently won a number of collegiate journalism awards, including six National Pacemaker Awards in 2000, 2001, 2006, 2008, 2013, and 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-07-10|title=Top 10 Daily College Newspapers|url=https://www.collegemagazine.com/top-10-daily-college-newspapers/|access-date=2020-07-08|website=College Magazine|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Daily Iowan wins 3 Pacemaker awards {{!}} Iowa Now - The University of Iowa |url=https://now.uiowa.edu/news/2023/12/daily-iowan-wins-3-pacemaker-awards |access-date=2024-01-15 |website=now.uiowa.edu |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Daily Iowan named Online Pacemaker winner {{!}} Iowa Now - The University of Iowa |url=https://now.uiowa.edu/news/2021/11/daily-iowan-named-online-pacemaker-winner |access-date=2024-01-15 |website=now.uiowa.edu |language=en}}</ref> ''The Daily Iowan'' was named Newspaper of the Year by the Iowa Newspaper Association four times, including in 2020 and 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Daily Iowan named Newspaper of the Year in state competition for second time |url=https://dailyiowan.com/2021/02/13/daily-iowan-named-newspaper-of-the-year-in-state-competition-for-second-time/ |access-date=2024-01-15 |website=The Daily Iowan}}</ref>
The print edition is available free of charge on the University of Iowa campus and is available for home delivery by subscription. The publication is entirely student-run and independent from the University of Iowa.
''The Daily Iowan’s'' competitors include ''The Gazette of Cedar Rapids'', ''The Des Moines Register'' and the ''Iowa City Press-Citizen''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|title = The Daily Iowan 125th Anniversary Reunion Edition. From the personal collection of William Casey}}</ref>
George Gallup, creator of the Gallup poll, served as editor of ''The Daily Iowan'' in the early 1920s. Jason Brummond has been the newspaper's publisher since 2017, when the previous publisher, William Casey, retired. Casey had served in the post since 1976 and is credited with starting the newspaper's scholarship program for talented future journalists, who have since worked at news agencies such as The Associated Press, ''The New York Times'', ''The Wall Street Journal'', ''St. Petersburg Times'', ''The Dallas Morning News'', ''The Star Tribune'', ''The Des Moines Register'', ''ESPN'', ''USA Today,'' ''SPIN Magazine'' and ''The Times-Picayune''. The scholarship program began in 1987. Each year, up to four high school seniors are selected for the four-year scholarship.<ref>{{Cite web|title=William Casey {{!}} School of Journalism and Mass Communication {{!}} College of Liberal Arts and Sciences {{!}} The University of Iowa|url=https://clas.uiowa.edu/sjmc/people/william-casey-0|access-date=2020-07-08|website=clas.uiowa.edu|language=en}}</ref>
==History==
''The University Reporter'' was the University of Iowa's first publication. It began as a 16-page monthly paper in 1868. In 1878, ''The Vidette'' emerged as a rival paper. The two publications merged into ''The Vidette-Reporter'', a triweekly paper in September 1881. ''The Vidette-Reporter'' eventually combined with ''The SUI Quill'', another university publication, published weekly, that began in 1891, to form ''The Daily Iowan'' in 1901. The first issue of ''The Daily Iowan'' came out on September 21, 1901. It was first published in the offices of Miles and Moulton at 18 South Clinton Street in Iowa City and cost five cents.<ref name=":0" />
In 1903, the paper moved to 21 Washington Street, where the University Press Company was located.<ref name=":0" />
''The Daily Iowan'' was owned by the student editors and was passed along each year to the next year's student editor. This ended in 1916, when the student-faculty board formed ''The Daily Iowan'' Publishing Company.<ref>The Daily Iowan 125th Anniversary Reunion Program</ref> Along with the new ownership, ''The Daily Iowan'' moved to 28 South Clinton Street, and one year later moved again to offices on Iowa Avenue.<ref name=":0" /> In 1924, ''The Daily Iowan'' became a part of the Associated Press.<ref>The Daily Iowan 100th Anniversary Reunion Program</ref>
''The Daily Iowan'' inhabited Close Hall, on Dubuque Street and Iowa Avenue, along with the University of Iowa School of Journalism beginning in 1924. There was a period in 1940 where the paper was moved temporarily to East Hall, which is known today as Seashore Hall, because the second floor of Close Hall caught fire and was deemed too hazardous. During that time, printing was done on the presses of the ''Iowa City Press-Citizen''. After Close Hall was renovated, printing returned to Close Hall, while ''The Daily Iowan'' newsroom and the School of Journalism remained in East Hall in a newly added wing. Printing remained at Close Hall until 1966 when the building was destroyed by a fire.<ref name=":0" />
On March 23, 1953, ''The Daily Iowan'' moved with the School of Journalism to the Communications Center on Madison Street.<ref name=":0" />
''The Daily Iowan'' added the online platform in 1995.
In 2005, ''The Daily Iowan'' and the School of Journalism moved into the Adler Journalism Building on Iowa Avenue, where it currently resides.<ref>The Wall in the Adler Journalism Building at the University of Iowa</ref>
''The Daily Iowan'' added a TV component in 2005 titled DITV. Daily morning newscasts were primarily aired via YouTube on The Daily Iowan's website until 2020. Daily Iowan TV produced newscasts specifically for social media starting in 2020, rebranding the newscast as DITV NOW. Daily Iowan TV now is back to producing live newscasts 3 days a week, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays via YouTube and dailyiowan.com/ditv. Students have the opportunity to work with the same equipment and technology used in the professional broadcast industry.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://clas.uiowa.edu/sjmc/resources/news/daily-iowan-tv-celebrates-10-years|title = The Daily Iowan School of Journalism and Mass Communications}}</ref>
In January 2024, ''The Daily Iowan'' purchased two weekly newspapers, the ''Mount Vernon-Lisbon Sun'' and ''Solon Economist,'' from Woodward Communications.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Martin |first=Sabine |date=January 29, 2024 |title=Daily Iowan acquires Mount Vernon, Solon newspapers |url=https://dailyiowan.com/2024/01/29/daily-iowan-acquires-mount-vernon-solon-newspapers/ |access-date=2024-01-31 |website=The Daily Iowan}}</ref> Both papers had a combined circulation of 1,900. The sale price was not disclosed.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hollingsworth |first=Heather |date=April 2, 2024 |title=College newspaper sweeps up 2 tiny publications in a volley against growing news deserts |url=https://apnews.com/article/iowa-student-journalists-local-news-daily-iowan-c65ba32b4340cf290c41f31b3482fd2c |access-date=2024-04-03 |website=Associated Press |language=en}}</ref>
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==External links== *[http://daily-iowan.com/ ''The Daily Iowan'' website] *[https://dailyiowan.com/ditv/ ''Daily Iowan'' Live] *[http://dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu ''Daily Iowan'' Digital Archives] *[https://twitter.com/thedailyiowan @thedailyiowan]
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