The Daily Mississippian editor in chief of the newspaper. The student newspaper was originally named The Mississippian. It became a daily in 1962 (though the name "Daily" wasn't added to its masthead until 1968). The newspaper has won numerous state, regional and national awards in recent years. The Daily Mississippian The Daily Mississippian, commonly called The DM, is the award-winning student newspaper of the University of Mississippi. The first issue of The Mississippian was published in 1911. It is operated as an independent student-run newspaper, and is published in print four days a week and online daily. It publishes Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and
The National Sports Daily sports news that they could find in their local publications, or the nationally-distributed "USA Today" by comparison, for fifty cents or even less. Despite a last-ditch effort to start an online distribution through Compuserve, which was one of the earliest Internet providers, the declining circulation was enough for "The National" to announce it was ceasing publication. On June 13, 1991, "The National" put out its final issue with its front cover reading "We Had A Ball: The fat lady sings our song." The National Sports Daily The National Sports Daily, simply referred to as The National, was a sports-centered newspaper