| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | University of South Carolina |
| Editor | Josh Dawsey |
| Founded | 1908 (as The Gamecock) |
| Headquarters | 1400 Greene Street Russell House, 3rd floor Columbia, SC 29208 United States |
| Circulation | 14,000 daily |
| Official website | dailygamecock.com |
The Daily Gamecock (formerly The Gamecock) is the daily student 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.
The Daily Gamecock circulates 14,000 papers each weekday and claims a daily readership of 30,000. It was recently ranked as The Princeton Review's 17th best college newspaper. According to the South Carolina Press Association, The Daily Gamecock is South Carolina's 14th largest newspaper. The newspaper is editorially independent from the university. The newspaper is printed at the press of The State in Columbia
Contents |
The first issue of The Gamecock was published on January 30, 1908. Robert Gonzales, a student, was largely responsible for the paper's establishment.
In its first semester only three issues were produced, but in the following term the paper began weekly production. The paper eventually moved to publication on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and in the fall semester of 2006 began publishing Monday through Friday in print and online. Renamed the Daily Gamecock, it became the first student paper in South Carolina to publish daily. 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 2007, Jackie Alexander became the first black editor-in-chief.
On January 30, 2008, the newspaper completed 100 years of operation, which it marked with prizes, a special letterhead, historical headlines, and an alumni ball celebrated the milestone.
In January 2011, the newspaper launched the latest version of its Web site at dailygamecock.com. In 2009, the newspaper also launched its Facebook account and fan page "The Daily Gamecock" as well as four Twitter accounts: "TDG_Sports", "GamecockMix", "GamecockNews" and "TheGamecock". The staff also launched staff and section blogs. The Twitter account now has more than 7,000 followers.
"The Daily Gamecock" prints all-original coverage for its daily campus news, metro news, sports, viewpoints, "The Scene at USC," and comics, as well as its daily "Mix" (arts and entertainment). The Gamecock also publishes the design-winning Friday Football Blitz, broadsheet-format specials released each Friday before South Carolina Gamecocks football games.
The Gamecock has won many South Carolina Press Association awards and was a finalist for the National Pacemaker Awards for the Associated Collegiate Press in 1999. In October 2007, the Gamecock won the Sun Newspaper of the Year Award and ten other awards at the 2007 Southern University Newspaper Conference. The newspaper also won 14 awards including "Best Newspaper" at the SCPA awards in 2009. The paper also won best collegiate newspaper for South Carolina in 2010 and 2011.
In March 2006 , The Daily Gamecock was recognized by the South Carolina Press Association for excellence for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina. Eight Gamecock staffers drove to hurricane-affected areas in Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi to report on the story.
The newspaper has a staff of more than 100 students, both paid and volunteers. The paper's main staff of editors include seven members of the editorial board, 10 copy editors, two multimedia editors, three photography editors, three design editors, one graduate assistant, a public relations team and ten section editors, all of which are appointed by the editor-in-chief.
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||