Arizona Daily Wildcat
| Type | Student newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Arizona Student Media |
| Founded | 1899 |
| Headquarters | Tucson, AZ, U.S. |
| Website | Dailywildcat.com |
The Arizona Daily Wildcat is a student newspaper serving the University of Arizona. It was founded in 1899[1] as the Sage Green and Silver. Previous names include Arizona Weekly Life, University Life, Arizona Life and Arizona Wildcat. [2] Its distribution is within the university and the Tucson, Arizona metropolitan area. It has a distribution of 20,000.[1] It is published daily during the spring and fall semesters and weekly during the summer months as the Arizona Summer Wildcat.[3] The Arizona Daily Wildcat was named Best College Newspaper by Princeton Review's THE BEST 361 COLLEGES, 2006 EDITION.[4]
Awards
2010 Associated Collegiate Press Online Pacemaker award winner.[5]
2010 Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker finalist.[6]
2010 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Award National Finalist for online sports reporting at a four-year college or university.
2010 College Media Advisers Apple Award winner for best four-year broadsheet newspaper.
Controversy
The Tuesday October 16, 2012 issue featured a four-panel cartoon by cartoonist D. C. Parsons, deemed offensive by some 8,000 signatories to a petition to have the Cartoonist and Editor-in-Chief and Copy-Editor fired. The editor-in-chief did not step down despite the number of signatories asking for her resignation; however, the cartoonist was promptly fired after the publication.
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Father: Ya know son...
If you ever tell me you're gay... I will shoot you with my shotgun, roll you up in a carpet and throw you off of a bridge...
Son: Well I guess that's what you call a "Fruit Roll Up!"
Father and Son: Ahh Ha ha ha Ha ha... bwah Ha Ha ha Ha ha haa!!
The paper did issue an apology for the matter.[7]
Alumni
Daily Wildcat alumni have been successful in many fields other than journalism – from higher education to thoroughbred race horse training. Some noted alumni in the journalism and media fields include:
- Gilbert Bailon, editorial page editor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Bobbie Jo Buel, executive editor of the Arizona Daily Star
- Susan Carroll, Houston Chronicle reporter
- Scott Carter, executive producer of Real Time with Bill Maher
- Ryan Finley, sports editor of the Arizona Daily Star
- David “Fitz” Fitzsimmons, editorial cartoonist
- Paul Gilblin and Ryan Gabrielson, the 2009 winners of the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting
- Richard Gilman, retired publisher of the Boston Globe
- Dan Hicks, NBC sportscaster
- Jessica Lee, social media coordinator for Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman
- Saul Loeb, White House photographer for Agence France Presse
- Phil Matier, columnist with the San Francisco Chronicle
- Nathan Olivarez-Giles, staff writer for Wired magazine, former writer at Los Angeles Times
- Lynne Olson (Freedom’s Daughters, Citizens of London)
- Dorothy Parvaz, Al Jazeera reporter
- Merl Reagle, syndicated crossword puzzle creator
- Mort Rosenblum, author and foreign correspondent
- Michael Schwartz, founder of ESPN-affiliated Phoenix Suns website valleyofthesuns.com
- Frank Sotomayor, retired journalist with the LA Times and winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize
- Bill Walsh, Washington Post copy chief, creator of theslot.com and author of books on copyediting
- Ari Wasserman, Ohio State University sportswriter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer
References
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