The Daily Gamecock

Infobox Newspaper
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type = Daily newspaper
format = Broadsheet
foundation = 1908 (as "The Gamecock")
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price = Free
owners = University of South Carolina
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editor = Brad Maxwell
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circulation = 14,000 daily
headquarters = 1400 Greene Street
Russell House, 3rd floor
Columbia, SC 29208
United States
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website = [http://www.dailygamecock.com/ 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.

As of March 2007, the "Gamecock" circulated 12,000 papers each weekday and claimed a daily readership of 30,000. 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 "The State" in Columbia

History

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 to publishing Monday through Friday in print and online. Renamed the "Daily Gamecock", it became was 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.

On January 16, 2007, the paper added the new the Metro section of its newspaper, featuring Columbia local news. The same month the "Gamecock" redesigned its website and expanded to new media, with a new daily blog written by staff members and open to comments. 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.

Content

"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.

Awards and honors

"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.

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.

Operations

The newspaper has an average staff of 100 students. All are volunteers. The paper's main staff of editors include four members of the editorial board, ten copy editors, two online editors, two photography editors, two design editors, one graduate assistant and ten section editors, most of which are appointed by the editor-in-chief.

The first copy is free. All subsequent copies are a dollar each.

External links

* [http://www.dailygamecock.com Official website]