The Daily Cardinal The Daily Cardinal The Daily Cardinal is a student newspaper that serves the University of Wisconsin–Madison community. One of the oldest student newspapers in the country, it began publishing on Monday, April 4, 1892. The newspaper is financially and editorially independent of the university. Sammy Gibbons is the newspaper's current editor-in-chief. The "Cardinal"'s motto, printed at the bottom of every front page and taken from an 1894 declaration by the university's board of regents, is "...the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found." "The
The Michigan Daily spread." The first female editor-in-chief of the "Daily" was Harriett Woods, who later served in Missouri State government, ran for the Senate twice in the 1980s nearly beating John Danforth the first time, and led the National Women's Political Caucus through its Year of the Woman in 1992. "Daily "alumni who have won a Pulitzer Prize include: On January 28, 2014, the "Daily" earned national recognition for breaking news that a Michigan football player had been separated from the University for sexual misconduct. The 2018 editorial staff consists of: The Michigan Daily The Michigan Daily is the daily student newspaper