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
Daily Herald (UK newspaper) commissioned from market researcher Mark Abrams, whose conclusions suggested reasons why the "Herald" was in decline, it was reborn as "The Sun" in 1964 under editor Sydney Jacobson. Roy Greenslade, though, has suggested that the "Daily Herald" was, in fact, losing readers to its own stable mate, the "Daily Mirror", rather than because of social changes. By 1969 the original "Sun" had fewer readers than the "Herald" at the end of its existence. The newspaper was sold to Rupert Murdoch's News Limited (the holding group for all of his interests at the time), and its format and (eventually) its politics