Daily Athenaeum
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | West Virginia University |
| Editor | Madison Fleck |
| Founded | 1887 |
| Headquarters | 284 Prospect Street Morgantown, WV, 26506 United States |
| Website | The Daily Anthenaeum |
The Daily Athenaeum is the official student newspaper at West Virginia University. Founded in 1887, the paper draws students from all disciplines to contribute original content for publication. It is editorially independent from the university, and also does not have a faculty adviser. The DA is distributed at various locations on campus, as well as around Morgantown in restaurants and businesses. Content is also available online via its website. With a circulation of nearly 15,000, The Daily Athenaeum is West Virginia's 9th-largest newspaper. News, Sports and special features reported in the DA have regularly been picked up and covered in many national newspapers as well as network news organizations.
The DA's offices are located at 283 Prospect Street, across the street from Arnold Hall on the Downtown campus. The DA publishes five days per week, Monday thru Friday throughout the school year, as well as once per week during the summer. The primary sections of the paper are news, opinion, arts & entertainment and sports.
History
The Athenaeum (Athe-a-nee-um) has a long tradition of serving the students, faculty, and staff of West Virginia University.
The publication began as a literary magazine when classics were popular in college study, hence the name which refers to the forum in ancient Athens where oratory and debate took place. The Athenaeum celebrated its centennial in 1987 with the publication of a special edition.
Soon after journalism instruction began at WVU in the 1920s, the journalism faculty took over the supervision of the Athenaeum, utilizing it as a laboratory newspaper to help teach writing, editing and advertising. The publication took on the appearance of a newspaper and became a weekly. It assumed daily status (five days a week) in 1933.
Over the years, the Athenaeum has improved and grew larger, and hundreds of journalism students worked as reporters and editors. Today the Athenaeum is no longer part of the School of Journalism, as it became completely independent in 1970.
In May 1994, The Daily Athenaeum moved into a new facility located at 284 Prospect Street. A special Building Fee funded construction of this facility.
Rankings and Reviews
The Daily Athenaeum has consistently been ranked as one of the best college newspapers in the United States and for the last 7 out of 10 years the DA has been ranked by the Princeton Review as one of the Top 20 Best College Newspapers beginning in 2005 as the 10th-best college newspaper in the United States, 15th in 2006, 8th in 2007, 8th in 2008, 11th in 2009, 11th in 2010, and 8th in 2014.
In 2010, Society of Professional Journalists ranked the DA the 3rd best student publication in the United States.
