The University Daily Kansan
Type | Student newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | The University of Kansas |
Founded | 1904 |
Headquarters | Lawrence, KS, U.S. |
Website | http://www.kansan.com |
The University Daily Kansan is a student newspaper serving the University of Kansas. It was founded in 1904. Its distribution is within the university and the Lawrence, Kansas metropolitan area. It is published daily during the spring and fall semesters and weekly during the summer months.
Its online counterpart, Kansan.com, began operation on the Web in the fall of 1996. Originally called the UDKi (for interactive) it adopted the naming convention of its parent publication three years later.
Matt Erickson is the editor for the Fall 2008 semester. [1]
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 both 2007 and 2008.
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