Arizona Daily Wildcat
The Arizona Daily Wildcat is a student newspaper serving the University of Arizona. It was founded in 1899 as the Sage Green and Silver. Previous names include Arizona Weekly Life, University Life, Arizona Life and Arizona Wildcat. [1] Its distribution is within the university and the Tucson, Arizona metropolitan area. It has a distribution of 10,000. It is published daily during the spring and fall semesters and weekly during the summer months as the Arizona Summer Wildcat.[2] The Arizona Daily Wildcat was named Best College Newspaper by Princeton Review's THE BEST 361 COLLEGES, 2006 EDITION.[3]
Awards
2010 Associated Collegiate Press Online Pacemaker award winner. [4]
2010 Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker finalist. [5]
2010 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Award National Finalist for online sports reporting at a four-year college or university.
2010 College Media Advisers Apple Award winner for best four-year broadsheet newspaper.
Alumni
Daily Wildcat alumni have been successful in many fields other than journalism – from higher education to thoroughbred race horse training.
Some noted alumni in the journalism and media fields include:
Paul Gilblin and Ryan Gabrielson, the 2009 winners of the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting;
Saul Loeb, White House photographer for Agence France Presse;
Scott Carter, executive producer of Real Time with Bill Maher;
Dan Hicks, NBC sportscaster;
Phil Matier, columnist with the San Francisco Chronicle;
Merl Reagle, syndicated crossword puzzle creator;
Bill Walsh, Washington Post copy chief , creator of theslot.com and author of books on copyediting;
Bobbie Jo Buel, executive editor of the Arizona Daily Star;
author Lynne Olson (“Freedom’s Daughters”, “Citizens of London”);
Gilbert Bailon, editorial page editor, St. Louis Post Dispatch;
Mort Rosenblum, author and foreign correspondent;
Dorothy Parvaz, Al Jazeera reporter;
Susan Carroll, Houston Chronicle reporter;
Jessica Lee, social media coordinator for Democracy Now with Amy Goodman;
Richard Gilman, retired publisher of the Boston Globe;
Frank Sotomayor, retired journalist with the LA Times and winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize;
David “Fitz” Fitzsimmons, editorial cartoonist.
External links
References
- ^ "University of Arizona Library - Reference Resources". http://www.library.arizona.edu/search/reference/uainfo.html#news. Retrieved July 31, 2006.
- ^ "Arizona Daily Wildcat - General information". Archived from the original on May 13, 2006. http://web.archive.org/web/20060513234829/http://wildcat.arizona.edu/home/generalinformation/. Retrieved June 4, 2006.
- ^ "Princeton Review Annual College Rankings Based on 110,000 Student Surveys Now Out in The Best 361 Colleges, 2006 Edition". http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/articles/rankingspr.asp. Retrieved July 31, 2006. Article by unknown author, The Princeton Review, August 22, 2005
- ^ {{cite web|url=http://www.studentpress.org/acp/winners/opm11.html|
- ^ {{cite web|url=http://www.studentpress.org/acp/winners/npm11.html|
|
|
|
| Academics |
|
Undergraduate
|
Agriculture and Life Sciences · Architecture and Landscape Architecture · Education · Engineering · Fine Arts · Humanities · Nursing · Optical Sciences · Science · Social and Behavioral Sciences · Natural Resources · Physicial and Mathematical Sciences · School of Natural Resources · School of Public Administration and Policy
|
|
|
Graduate and
professional
|
|
|
|
|
Athletics and
traditions
|
|
|
| Campus |
|
|
| Student life |
|
|