The Daily Gamecock
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
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| Owner | University of South Carolina |
| Editor | Jackie Alexander |
| Founded | 1908 (as The Gamecock) |
| Political allegiance | Independent editorial |
| Price | Free |
| Headquarters | 1400 Greene Street Russell House 3rd Floor Columbia, SC 29208 United States |
| Circulation | 14,000 Daily |
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| Website: www.dailygamecock.com | |
The Daily Gamecock (formerly The Gamecock) is the daily editorially independent newspaper of the University of South Carolina. It primarily serves the main campus of the university in Columbia and regional campuses of the University of South Carolina System, in the state of South Carolina.
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[edit] Overview
The print version of The Daily Gamecock is published Monday through Friday during the fall and spring semesters and nine times during the summer, with the exception of university holidays and exam periods. In the fall semester of 2006 the newspaper, then known as The Gamecock, began being published Monday through Friday in print and online for the first time in its 98-year history. It was the first college paper in South Carolina to do so. It also changed its name to The Daily Gamecock. The Daily Gamecock [1]has an online version of the newspaper and also publishes it daily, Monday through Friday, with breaking news alerts.
Opinions expressed in The Daily Gamecock are those of the editors or author and not those of the University of South Carolina. Unsigned editorials represent the majority opinion of the editorial board and are not the official opinion of the university.
As of March 2007, The Daily Gamecock is circulating 12,000 papers each weekday, and a daily readership of about 30,000 readers. The Daily Gamecock is South Carolina's 14th largest newspaper, according to the South Carolina Press Association, and has been publishing since 1908.
[edit] Recent history & the DG today
With a student, Robert Gonzales, at the heart of the paper's founding, on January 30, 1908 the first issue of The Gamecock was published. In the first semester of production only three issues were produced, but in the following term the paper began weekly production and continued until Fall 2006.
In the Fall semester of 2006 the then weekly The Gamecock newspaper began being published Monday through Friday in print and online for the first time in its 98-year history, the first college paper in South Carolina to do so and changed its name to The Daily Gamecock.
On January 16, 2007 the paper added the new The Metro section of its newspaper. The new section's mission is to inform students of the happenings within the city of Columbia, due to the large amount of students who live off campus. As well in January, The Daily Gamecock begin enhance its online site and to move into the new age of journlism by creating a daily blog that is written by the members of its staff. The blog, like most of the stories online, gives the reader the ability to leave comments for the staff. The blog provides The Daily Gamecock to give commentary or news on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news that may have not been published otherwise; some function as more personal online diaries.
On January 30, 2008, The Daily Gamecock completed 100 years of operation. Prizes, a special letter head in the news paper, with historical headlines, and an Alumni ball celebrated the milestone.
The Daily Gamecock in recent years has won dozens of South Carolina Press Association awards for its news, opinion, feature and content, as well as design, in a competition that places the paper in competition with professional daily newspapers across the state.
In the fall of 2007, Jackie Alexander was named editor in chief of the newspaper. Alexander was the first African American to serve as editor in chief.
[edit] Content
"The Daily Gamecock" prints all-original coverage for its daily news, metro, sports, viewpoints, "The Scene at USC", and comics, as well as its daily “Mix” (arts and entertainment).
The Daily Gamecock also publishes the design-winning Friday Football Blitz, broadsheet-format specials released semiweekly, Friday before a Gamecock football games.
[edit] Awards and Memberships
The Daily Gamecock has won many prestigious awards for its writing staff and design crew, which places the newspaper in direct competition with professional daily newspapers across the state
The Daily Gamecock was a finalist of the Associated Collegiate Press' "Pacemaker Award" in 1999.
In October 2007 The Daily Gamecock in competing with 12 other Southeastern universities won the Sun Newspaper of the Year award as well as 10 other awards at the 2007 Southern University Newspaper Conference.
March 2006 The Daily Gamecock was recognized by the South Carolina Press Association for excellence for its in-depth coverage of Hurricane Katrina where eight of The Daily Gamecock’s staff drove to hurricane-affected areas in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi to cover the story first hand.
The Daily Gamecock is a proud member of the Associated Collegiate Press, South Carolina Press Association and Letters to the editor.
[edit] Operations and governance
The Daily Gamecock goes to press five issues per week in the fall and spring semesters, and once a week for 9 weeks during the summer. Daily print distribution is 14,000 copies across the University campus and regional campuses in the USC System. The newspaper is printed at the press of the The State Newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina. The first copy is free. All subsequant copies are a dollar each.
In an average year, the newspaper’s staff exceeds 100 students, who are all volunteers. The paper’s main staff of editors include four members of the Editorial Board, ten copy editors, two online editors, two photography editors, two design editors, one graduate assistant and ten section editors, most of which are appointed by the editor in chief.
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