The Oklahoma Daily
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The Oklahoma Daily is the student-run newspaper at the University of Oklahoma. The Daily was founded in 1917 to replace previous student publications. It is published Monday through Friday during the fall and spring semesters, and Wednesday during the summer. Special issues are also published at various times of the year.
The Daily has a circulation of 11,000. Distribution is free at more than 100 locations on or near campus.
The Daily is overseen by the OU Publications Board, composed of ten members, one representative from each the following areas: the university president's office staff, university president's office student, the journalism college, the faculty senate, the staff senate, the student government, Sooner yearbook, The Daily staff, Student Media, and the Oklahoma Press Association. The board elects the editor-in-chief for the fall-spring term and the summer term.
The Daily has won the Associated Collegiate Press' Pacemaker Award — considered by some to be the Pulitzer Prize of college journalism — four times, in 1989, 1994, 1995 and 2004. In 1993-94, The Daily was lauded for its investigative journalism that uncovered administrators' acceptance of gifts from university vendors and the university's subsequent attempts to conceal the improprieties from the public. The stories and the attention they garnered off campus helped precipitate the resignation of university President Richard Van Horn. In 1995, the newspaper aggressively and poignantly covered the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in nearby Oklahoma City. The Daily's Web site — rushed from concept to reality that year — became a national resource for news about the bombing, years before most news organizations were even online.
