The Daily Collegian (Penn State)

The Daily Collegian (Penn State)

The Daily Collegian is an award-winning, student-operated newspaper that is published independently at the Pennsylvania State University. The newspaper is printed on weekdays during the Fall, Spring, and second Summer semesters. It is distributed for free at the University Park campus. As of 2010, the off-campus cost for a copy of the newspaper is 30 cents.

A compilation edition of the week's top stories, known as the Weekly Collegian is also distributed free of charge at the University's Commonwealth campuses. Subscriptions to the Weekly Collegian and The Daily Collegian, as well as back issues, can be purchased here.

Collegian Inc., which publishes The Daily Collegian, the Weekly Collegian, Collegian Magazine, Venues, and The Daily Collegian Online, is an independent, non-profit corporation and has a board of directors that is composed of faculty, students, and professionals

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."

The student editing and reporting staff annually receives notable journalism awards. In 2010, the Collegian won the Best Newspaper Silver Crown Award from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association’s Crown/Circle Awards. Other awards won in 2010 can be found here. So far in 2011, they have also been nominated for numerous awards. Those nominations can be found on the editor-in-chief’s blog. In 2012, The Princeton Review ranked The Daily Collegian as the #1 college newspaper in the United States.

The Daily Collegian is an affiliate of UWIRE, which distributes and promotes its content to their network. They contributed articles to the site from 1997-2009.