Colorado Daily

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The Colorado Daily (first printed September 13, 1892) began as a student newspaper at the University of Colorado, but was banned from the campus in the spring of 1970 and became a community newspaper for residents of Boulder, Colorado. The Colorado Daily publishes six days a week and is believed to be the oldest free daily newspaper in the United States.

The paper's name was changed in 1953 to "Colorado Daily" from "The Silver and Gold" because students who worked on the paper thought it made their product sound like a mining trade publication. Throughout the 1990s and 2000 the paper won several awards for hard-hitting journalism.

The Colorado Daily was owned by Front Range Publishing, Inc., until 2001 when that company declared bankruptcy. The paper was purchased by Randy Miller, who scaled back the staff and announced plans to make the paper more family-oriented. On September 26, 2005, Miller announced he was selling the newspaper to E.W. Scripps Company of Cincinnati, Ohio., owner of the Boulder Daily Camera and Denver's Rocky Mountain News.