The Spinnaker

The Spinnaker

Infobox Newspaper
name = The Spinnaker


type = Weekly newspaper
format = Tabloid
foundation = 1977
owners = University of North Florida
headquarters = Jacksonville, FL
editor = Holli Welch
publisher = Florida Sun Printing
website = [http://www.unfspinnaker.com/ The Spinnaker]

"The Spinnaker" is the official student newspaper of the University of North Florida. The first issue was published August 17, 1977. The newspaper is published on a weekly basis during the school year, with new issues roughly once a month in the summer.

In 2005, the Spinnaker won a "Best of Show" award at the Associated Collegiate Press's National College Media Convention in Kansas City, Missouri, for the Number 1 paper among four-year weekly tabloid-size student newspapers in the country.

The Spinnaker was named the 2nd best Florida college newspaper by the Florida College Press Association in 2009.

External links

* [http://www.unfspinnaker.com/ The Spinnaker]


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