page_title: Daily Collegian
section_title: The State Collegian
hierarchical_section_title: Daily Collegian / The State Collegian
caption_attribution_description: English: A logo for The State Collegian a student publication at Penn State University
context_page_description: The Daily Collegian is a student-produced news outlet, with a newspaper and website, that is published independently at the Pennsylvania State University. The newspaper is printed twice a week during the fall and spring semesters, and once a week during the summer semester. It is distributed for free at the University Park campus as well as mailed to subscribers across the country.
  Collegian Inc., which publishes The Daily Collegian, is an independent, non-profit corporation and has a board of directors that is composed of faculty, students, and professionals. The mission statement of Collegian Inc. is "to publish a quality campus newspaper and to provide a rewarding educational experience for the student staff members."
  The Daily Collegian is often considered one of the top student-run college newspapers in the nation receiving multiple notable journalism awards including National Pacemaker Awards, top rankings from The Princeton Review, and Sigma Delta Chi Awards.
context_section_description: With a continued need for a student run publication at Penn State many of the same staff members that helped publish the defunct Free Lance came together to create a new publication strictly focused on news coverage. The group cited the failure of its predecessor to its shift away from news based content. The group published the paper under the masthead The State Collegian and published its first issue on Oct. 1, 1904. The paper was published once a week on Thursdays and grew, adding photos and printing as a broadsheet rather than on tabloid-size paper. The paper was printed by Nittany Printing and Publishing Co., publishers of the State College Times (now the Centre Daily Times) where the State Collegian shared a downtown office with the State College paper.
caption: A logo for The State Collegian a student publication at Penn State University
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