| Type | Free daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | MediaNews Group |
| Publisher | Al Manzi |
| Editor | Oakland Childers |
| Founded | 1892 (as the Silver & Gold) |
| Headquarters | 2610 Pearl St. Boulder, Colorado 80302  United States |
| Official website | ColoradoDaily.com |
The Colorado Daily began as a student newspaper at the University of Colorado, but was banned from the campus in the spring of 1970 and became a community newspaper for residents of Boulder, Colorado. The Colorado Daily publishes five days a week and is believed to be the oldest free daily newspaper in the United States. It was first printed on September 13, 1892.
The paper's name was changed in 1953 to Colorado Daily from The Silver and Gold because students who worked on the paper thought it made their product sound like a mining trade publication. Throughout the 1990s and 2000 the paper won several awards for hard-hitting journalism.[citation needed]
The Colorado Daily was owned by Front Range Publishing, Inc., until 2001 when that company declared bankruptcy. The paper was purchased by Randy Miller, who returned the paper to profitability and added a Sunday edition. On September 26, 2005, Miller announced he was selling the newspaper to E.W. Scripps Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, owner of the Boulder Daily Camera and Denver's Rocky Mountain News. Scripps sold the paper to MediaNews Group in 2009.
External links
- ColoradoDaily.com
- The Colorado Daily has been on a long, strange trip for over a century. Is the journey ending or starting a new? Westword, April 26, 2001, by Michael Roberts
- Colorado Daily sold to Scripps
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