University Daily Kansan
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The University Daily Kansan is an editorially and financially independent student newspaper
serving the University of Kansas
. It was founded in 1904.
Its distribution is currently only within the university's campus. It is published daily during the spring and fall semesters and weekly during the summer months. Its circulation is about 12,000. The Kansan also includes a weekly lifestyle magazine named Jayplay.
Its online counterpart, Kansan.com, began operation on the Web in Fall 1996. Originally called the UDKi (for interactive) it adopted the naming convention of its parent publication three years later.
Kelly Stroda, a senior from Salina, is the Fall 2011 editor-in-chief. The revenue generated by The Kansan's award-winning advertising staff (named best in the nation by CIMBAM 2011) pays for a staff of many managers (both ad and editorial) and editors. The full staff includes more than 150 students.
The newspaper earned the prestigious Newspaper Pacemaker award from the Associated Collegiate Press
in 1993, 1994, 1995, 2000, 2004 and 2005. The Kansan was a finalist for the award in 2001 and 2007. Kansan.com, the newspaper's online counterpart, won the Online Pacemaker in 2007, 2008 and 2009.
In the summer of 2010, The Kansan moved out of Stauffer-Flint Hall, where it had been operating for more than 50 years, into the Dole Human Development Center, to accompany KUJH-TV in the Stauffer Memorial Newsroom, in the second floor of the center.
Student newspaper
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serving the University of Kansas
University of Kansas
The University of Kansas is a public research university and the largest university in the state of Kansas. KU campuses are located in Lawrence, Wichita, Overland Park, and Kansas City, Kansas with the main campus being located in Lawrence on Mount Oread, the highest point in Lawrence. The...
. It was founded in 1904.
Its distribution is currently only within the university's campus. It is published daily during the spring and fall semesters and weekly during the summer months. Its circulation is about 12,000. The Kansan also includes a weekly lifestyle magazine named Jayplay.
Its online counterpart, Kansan.com, began operation on the Web in Fall 1996. Originally called the UDKi (for interactive) it adopted the naming convention of its parent publication three years later.
Kelly Stroda, a senior from Salina, is the Fall 2011 editor-in-chief. The revenue generated by The Kansan's award-winning advertising staff (named best in the nation by CIMBAM 2011) pays for a staff of many managers (both ad and editorial) and editors. The full staff includes more than 150 students.
The newspaper earned the prestigious Newspaper Pacemaker award from the Associated Collegiate Press
Associated Collegiate Press
The Associated Collegiate Press is the largest and oldest national membership organization for college student media in the United States. The ACP is a division of the National Scholastic Press Association...
in 1993, 1994, 1995, 2000, 2004 and 2005. The Kansan was a finalist for the award in 2001 and 2007. Kansan.com, the newspaper's online counterpart, won the Online Pacemaker in 2007, 2008 and 2009.
In the summer of 2010, The Kansan moved out of Stauffer-Flint Hall, where it had been operating for more than 50 years, into the Dole Human Development Center, to accompany KUJH-TV in the Stauffer Memorial Newsroom, in the second floor of the center.