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The ''Kansas State Collegian'' is the official daily student-run newspaper of
Kansas State University Kansas State University (KSU, Kansas State, or K-State) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Manhattan, Kansas, United States. It was opened as the state's land-grant college in 1863 and was the first public instit ...
. Founded in 1896, the ''Collegian'' has a circulation of 4,750. It is owned and published by Collegian Media Group.


History

The inaugural edition of the student newspaper at K-State, then known as the ''Students' Herald'', was published in 1896. The school became the first college or university in the United States to offer a four-year course in printing in 1910 with its industrial journalism curriculum. During World War II, the paper was reduced from a
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to a tabloid and was published once a week on the campus press. In 1946, the paper returned to its former size and was published on the presses of the ''Manhattan Mercury-Chronicle''. The frequency and size of the paper changed again in 1949, when a Cox-O Type press was installed in the basement of Kedzie Hall and the ''Collegian'' went from a semi-weekly broadsheet to a daily tabloid-sized publication. In 1966, a 50,000 Cottrell web offset press was installed. Collegian Media Group acquired the first computerized editing equipment in a Kansas newsroom and among the first four in a U.S. university in 1972, when Bill Brown, the director of the company, persuaded the board to purchase two Hendrix editing display terminals. An upgrade to
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typesetting equipment followed in 1982 with the installation of a
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Trendsetter. Another Trendsetter was added in 1983 and the ''Collegian'' changed to broadsheet format. Laser typesetting came to the paper in 1987, when an Apple
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Plus and
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100 replaced the Trendsetter presses. In 1992, under the direction of adviser Ron Johnson, the paper started evolving towards to full pagination in January, when Student Senate funded a half-million dollar purchase of Macintosh computer equipment. The first ''Collegian'' website launched in 1994. Kelly Campbell and Ryan Korte, the ''Collegian'' network administrators, were among the original creators of the online version of the ''Collegian''. The first "eCollegian" edition appeared in the summer, becoming only the third college newspaper to publish daily on the Web. The privilege fee continuation resulted in an upgrade of the ''Collegian''s computers to PowerMacs, and printing services purchased a machine that allowed the pages to print straight to film, improving color and reproduction quality. The Electronic ''Collegian'' also won first place in content in the Associate Collegiate Press' Best of the Net competition in Washington, D.C. In 1999, the ''Collegian'' accepted the bid of the ''
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'' to print the ''Collegian'' on its presses, allowing the ''Collegian'' to go four-color, five days a week, for the first time. The ''Collegian'' has since renewed its agreement with the ''Salina Journal''. Meanwhile, the historic press machine in the basement of Kedzie was dismantled and removed. By the summer of 2006, the ''Collegian'' officially signs on and launches its updated Web site with the college newspaper hosting company, College Publisher. The ''Collegian'' continued pressing forward with its Web site, and by summer 2007, had begun hiring in-house staff members who focused on video editing. By July, the ''Collegian'' had also established an online e-mail subscription service, message board/forum system and interactive university calendar.
On July 9 the ''Collegian'' launched a redesigned Web site with College Publisher 5.0. The ''Collegian'' was one of the first College Publisher affiliates to launch a 5.0 Web site. In the Fall of 2012, the ''Collegian'' changed webpage platforms from College Publisher to Wordpress. This change came in unison with an overarching organizational name change from Student Publications, Inc., to Collegian Media Group. The ''Collegian's'' logo was changed from a graphic design of the text ''Kansas State Collegian'' to ''the collegian'' in lower case text with "independent voice for Kansas State University" as a sub-header in the logo. The logo also has a new insignia that is two apostrophes in a circle to form a "C".


Recent notable awards

*2012:
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, Region 7 Mark of Excellence: Breaking News Reporting, First Place; General News Reporting, Third Place *2011: William Randolph Hearst Foundation Journalism Awards: Feature Writing, Fourth Place *2011:
Society of Professional Journalists The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), formerly known as Sigma Delta Chi, is the oldest organization representing journalists in the United States. It was established on April 17, 1909, at DePauw University,2009 SPJ Annual Report, letter ...
: Mark of Excellence Award *2011:
Kansas Association of Broadcasters The Kansas Association of Broadcasters is a group supporting broadcasters in Kansas, United States, primarily through lobbying and coordination. History The Kansas Association of Broadcasters began in 1951 as the Kansas Association of Radio Broa ...
: Hard News Package, First Place *2010:
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: College Journalist of the Year *2009: College Newspaper Business & Advertising Managers: Best Run Of Press Group Promotion *2008:
Columbia Scholastic Press Association The Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA) is an international student press association, founded in 1925, whose goal is to unite student journalists and faculty advisers at schools and colleges through educational conferences, idea exchang ...
: Maps, First Place; Charts, First Place; Sports Feature Writing, First Place


Notable alumni

Notable former staff members of the Collegian include: *
Dan Biles William Daniel Biles (born August 12, 1952) is a justice of the Kansas Supreme Court. Biles was appointed on January 7, 2009, by Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius to replace retiring Chief Justice Kay McFarland. Personal life and education Dan ...
, Justice, Kansas Supreme Court *
Gail Gregg Gail Gregg (1951- ) is an American artist, photographer, and journalist, based in New York City. Painting in encaustic, Gregg's densely layered pictures often are inspired by aerial views of the American West and refer to Minimalism, Color Fie ...
, Multi-media artist *
Pete Souza Peter Joseph Souza (born December 31, 1954) is an American photojournalist, the former Chief Official White House Photographer for Presidents of the United States Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama and the former director of the White House Photog ...
, Chief photographer, The White House


References

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