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{{Short description|Campus newspaper of the University of Minnesota}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name               = Minnesota Daily
| image              = Minnesota Daily logo black logo.png
| caption            = 
| type               = Biweekly [[student newspaper]]
| format             = [[Broadsheet]]
| founded         = {{start date and age|1900}}
| ceased_publication = 
| price              = Free
| owners             = Minnesota Daily Board of Directors
| chief_editor        = Hana Ikramuddin
| general_manager     = Charlie Weaver
| staff_writers              = 
| language           = American English
| political_position          = 
| circulation        = 10,000: Mondays & Thursdays during Fall/Spring semesters, 7,500: Wednesdays during summer semester
| headquarters       = [[Minneapolis, Minnesota]]
| oclc               = 
| ISSN               = 
| website            = {{official URL}}
}}

The '''''Minnesota Daily''''' is the campus [[newspaper]] of the [[University of Minnesota]], published Monday and Thursday while school is in session, and published weekly on Wednesdays during summer sessions.<ref name="auto">{{Cite news|url=http://www.mndaily.com/page/about|title=About Us {{!}} mndaily.com – The Minnesota Daily|work=mndaily.com – The Minnesota Daily|access-date=2017-10-31}}</ref> Published since 1900, the paper is currently the largest student-run and student-written newspaper in the [[United States]] and the largest paper in the state of [[Minnesota]] behind the ''The Minnesota Star Tribune'' and the ''St. Paul Pioneer Press''.{{citation needed|date=June 2022}} The ''Daily'' was named best daily college newspaper in the United States in 2009 and 2010 by the [[Society of Professional Journalists]]. The paper is independent from the University, but receives $500,000 worth of student service fees funding.

The ''Daily'' has a distribution of 12,150 copies per day (Monday and Thursday during the school year) and 10,000 copies per day (Wednesdays during summer) – available at over 200 locations on and near campus free of charge, as it is largely funded by [[advertising]].  A typical edition has about a dozen pages. The ''Daily'' also provides readers with several special issues, including voters guides, housing guides, survival guides (published the first day of school), "Best of" inserts via the Grapevine Awards Fair (recognizing local businesses) and even parody issues – distributed during finals weeks.

The ''Minnesota Daily'' is entirely student-run and student-written, employing more than 150 students with the guidance of a general manager and the governance of its board of directors.<ref name="auto"/> The newspaper dually operates as a training institution, providing students with real work experience in [[journalism]], [[photography]], [[editing]], [[advertising]] [[sales]], [[marketing]], [[finance]], [[graphic design]], [[editorial]] and [[advertising]] production, [[human resources]], [[information systems]], [[public relations]], [[survey research]] and [[Web page|web]] [[Computer programming|programming]]. In addition, many students gain leadership and delegation skills in the ''Daily''{{'}}s many [[management]] positions.

In May 2010, the [[Society of Professional Journalists]] named the ''Minnesota Daily'' the best all-around daily student newspaper in the country for the second year in a row.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.spj.org/news.asp?REF=974|title=SPJ announces 2009 Mark of Excellence national winners|website=www.spj.org}}</ref>

==History==
[[File:1984 Minnesota Daily Newspaper office at the U of Minnesota-01.jpg|thumb|Minnesota Daily office in 1984]]Starting in 1877, the student newspaper/magazine at the University of Minnesota was called the ''Ariel''.<ref name="MNDailyHistory">{{cite web | url = http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2000/02/23/13390 | title = Early Daily dominated by sports | date = 2000-02-23 | access-date = 2007-08-08 | last = Reed | first = Travis |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070930203433/http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2000/02/23/13390 |archive-date = 2007-09-30}}</ref> In 1899, another local newspaper called ''Football'' was started by Horace Bagley, Mike Luby and Clarence Miller.<ref name="HistMNFB">{{cite book | last = The General Alumni Association |editor=Martin Newell | title = The History of Minnesota Football | publisher = The General Alumni Association of the University of Minnesota | year = 1928 | page = 11}}</ref>  Unlike the ''Ariel'', it was published daily. In response, the publishers of the Ariel decided to become a daily paper as well, giving birth to the ''Minnesota Daily''.

There have been a number of notable individuals to work at the paper, including former [[NAACP]] leader [[Roy Wilkins]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-history-roy-wilkins-a-quiet-warrior-against-awful-hatred/290435401/|title=Minnesota History: Roy Wilkins a quiet warrior against 'awful hatred'|work=Star Tribune|access-date=2017-10-31}}</ref> longtime [[CBS]] correspondent [[Harry Reasoner]],<ref>{{Cite book|title=Harry Reasoner A Life in the News.|date=2009|publisher=Univ of Texas Pr|others=Daniel, Douglass K.|isbn=9780292722170|oclc=320191617}}</ref> radio personality [[Garrison Keillor]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.garrisonkeillor.com/the-daily-news-floating-on-the-stormy-sea-of-beer-and-straight-vodka/|title=The Daily News: Floating on the Stormy Sea of Beer and Straight Vodka - Garrison Keillor|date=2013-11-06|work=Garrison Keillor|access-date=2017-10-31|language=en-US}}</ref> and musician [[Bob Dylan]]{{Citation needed|date=September 2010}}.

''The Minnesota Daily'' was the first college newspaper to provide access to its coverage via the [[Internet]] in 1990{{Citation needed|date=September 2010}}. The ''Daily'' website publishes each day's stories in addition to exclusive web videos, photo slideshows, and additional features.

In 2001, the popular "A&E" section of the ''Daily'' was suddenly shut down by student managers of the paper, which generated much criticism among readers and ''Daily'' alumni. Garrison Keillor, who had written for the section while a student at the university, said the choice to shutter the section "is not a decision that journalists would have made, and it diminishes the prestige of the paper." The section was quickly reestablished.<ref name=chronicle>{{cite journal
 | author = Monaghan, Peter
 |date=March 2001
 | title = At the U. of Minnesota, a Death at the Daily
 | journal = Chronicle of Higher Education
 | issue = March 23, 2001
 | url = http://chronicle.com/weekly/v47/i28/28a04101.htm
 }}</ref>

In early March 2020, the Minnesota Daily published what would be become its last print edition. Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the newspaper ceased printing and switched to an online-only publication.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tribune |first=Richard Chin Star |title=The Minnesota Daily ends regular print publication after 120 years |url=https://www.startribune.com/the-minnesota-daily-ends-regular-print-publication-after-120-years/600218483/ |access-date=2023-05-08 |website=Star Tribune}}</ref>

==Notable alumni==
*Chris Ison- [[Pulitzer Prize]]–winning journalist for the Star Tribune. Worked as an editor at the Minnesota Daily and is currently a faculty member at the SJMC. Often regales stories of his time at the Daily as he teaches. 
*[[Alan Bjerga]], 2010 president of the National Press Club
*[[Brian J. Coyle]], an American community leader, elected official, and gay activist and  writer for the ''Minnesota Daily'' in the 1960s
*[[Keith Maurice Ellison]], an American lawyer, politician, and a Democratic member of Congress. While a law student in 1989 and 1990, Ellison wrote several columns as Keith E. Hakim in the ''Minnesota Daily''
*[[Dick Guindon]],  American cartoonist best known for his gag panel, ''Guindon'', and cartoonist at the ''Minnesota Daily''
*[[Robert E. Hillard]] founder of the public relations agency Fleishman-Hillard in St. Louis, Missouri and editor-in-chief of the ''Minnesota Daily'' from 1938–39
*[[James Lileks]], an American journalist, columnist, and blogger and columnist at the ''Minnesota Daily'' who wrote under the pen name "James r. Lileks"
*[[Maud Hart Lovelace]], American author best known for the Betsy-Tacy series and former employee of the ''Minnesota Daily''
*[[Jack Ohman]], an American editorial cartoonist and employee for the ''Daily''
* [[Joe Roche]], Iraq War veteran and political commentator who wrote a column for the ''Daily'' in the 1990s
*[[Steve Sack]], an American cartoonist who draws the cartoon activity panel Doodles. His editorial cartoons for the ''Minneapolis Star Tribune'' won a Pulitzer Prize in 2013.  He illustrated features and drew editorial cartoons at the ''Minnesota Daily''
*[[Eric Sevareid]], a [[CBS]] journalist who was denied the editor-in-chief spot at the ''Minnesota Daily'' by university administration following a controversial column in 1934
*[[Hugh Smith (news anchor)|Hugh Smith]], news anchor at WTVT in Tampa, Florida from 1963 to 1991 and editor-in-chief of the ''Minnesota Daily'' during the 1955–56 academic year.
*[[Ka Vang]], Hmong playwright, fiction writer and poet and reporter at the ''Daily''
*[[William Wade (journalist)|William Wade]],  American war correspondent during World War II and copy desk chief at the ''Minnesota Daily'' from 1936–1939
*[[Roy Wilkins]], a prominent civil rights activist in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s and the first black journalist at the ''Minnesota Daily''<ref name=":0" />

==See also==
*''[[City Pages]]''
*''[[MinnPost.com]]''
*''[[St. Paul Pioneer Press]]''
*''[[Star Tribune]]''
* [[List of newspapers published in Minnesota]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Official website}}

{{University of Minnesota campus}}
{{Minnesota Newspapers}}

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