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Almost from its beginning, Oklahoma State University has had an official campus newspaper, produced for and by its students. The first issue was distributed May 15, 1895, and had a circulation of 142, total enrollment at that time of OSU’s predecessor, Oklahoma A&M College.
Since then the newspaper has published continuously under several different names and formats: The College Mirror, monthly, 1895-1899; The College Paper, monthly, 1899-1907; The Orange and Black, weekly, 1907-1924; and The O’Collegian, semi-weekly, March through November, 1924.
At the start of the winter quarter the paper began daily publication, raised its circulation to 2,983 and became the fifth college paper in the United States to join The Associated Press. However, it was 1927 before the word “daily” appeared on its nameplate, making it The Daily O’Collegian, the name it carries today.
The O’Collegian currently is ranked as one of the top newspapers in the country. In 1995, it received the National Newspaper Pacemaker Award, often considered the Pulitzer Prize of college journalism, and every year since 1989 has received All-America honors, the highest rating given by the Associated Collegiate Press and National Scholastic Press Association. In 2000, it was inducted into the Associated Collegiate Press Hall of Fame in 2000.
It also produced in 1991 the National Story of the Year from ACP and the Los Angeles Times, in 1990 the National SPJ Sports Photo of the Year, in 1990 the first runner-up for College Journalist of the Year, and in 1991 the Distinguished Newspaper Adviser Award from College Media Advisers Inc. The O’Collegian also has won numerous other awards for journalism excellence from the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, Society of Professional Journalists, Southwestern Journalism Congress and Oklahoma City Gridiron.
The Daily O’Collegian has produced countless top-quality journalists since its founding in 1895. Early legends included Paul Miller, who became president of AP and chief executive of Gannett; Walker Stone, who became editor in chief of Scripps-Howard Alliance; and Chester Gould, creator of the Dick Tracy comic strip.
The O’Colly Online, the electronic version of the O’Collegian, was launched on the World Wide Web in 1995, began publishing daily at the beginning of the fall 1996 semester, and has recently been upgraded to offer audio and visual content. In 2007, there was a dispute over whether the Web site was part of The Daily O'Collegain. The print staff decided to break away from the Web staff and create another Web site devoted to the print edition. Until an official Web site for the print edition is complete, their myspace, http://www.myspace.com/ocolly, will serve as such.
Summer 2008 staff:
Editor-in-Chief: Sean Harkin
Managing Editor: Ted Bado
Design Editor: B. Schmidt
News Editor: Easton Coleman
Features Editor: Brittney Baehler
Sports Editor: David Youngblood
Opinion Editor: Shayna Daitch
Photo Editor: Michael Bevers
