The Daily Orange
The Daily Orange, commonly referred to as The D.O.,[1] is an independent student newspaper published in Syracuse, New York. It is free and published once a week during the Syracuse University academic year.
Type
The Daily Orange Corporation
Irving R. Templeton
Anish Vasudevan
Kyle Chouinard
September 15, 1903
6,000
It was one of the first college papers to become fully independent from its parent college. Its alumni work at nearly every major newspaper in the nation — The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Boston Globe, Star Tribune, The Dallas Morning News, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution — in a variety of reporting, editing, design and photography roles.
Publisher reported circulation for 2018 was 6,000 copies, with an online circulation of about 3,000,000 during publishing months. The paper's content is published online daily and the print edition is published every Thursday during the academic year.
Comics[edit]
The D.O. was the first student newspaper to have comics. The paper has produced many famous cartoonists, such as Vaughn Bodē, Robb Armstrong (creator of Jump Start), Brad Anderson (creator of Marmaduke), Steve Ellis and Nicholas Gurewitch (creator of The Perry Bible Fellowship).[56][57] Pulitzer Prize winner Jim Morin served as editorial cartoonist during his senior year at SU.[58]
Awards and rankings[edit]
The paper has in the past decade won numerous awards, including more than a dozen "story of the year" awards in several categories from the Associated Collegiate Press and top-story honors from the William Randolph Hearst Foundation.
The Princeton Review has ranked the D.O. the best college newspaper every year since 2016.[59][60][61][62][63]
The D.O. was named the best all-around student newspaper in the country by the Society of Professional Journalists in 2017.[64] It is also the best-designed student newspaper in the country, as voted at the University of Missouri Student Society for News Design awards in 2005.
In 2021, College Choice ranked the D.O. #2 in the nation.[65]
During the 2021-22 academic year, the D.O. was ranked first in the total number of articles published by students newspapers in the U.S., with 4,969 articles published.[66]