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
Samuel Thompson (newspaper editor) Samuel Thompson (newspaper editor) Samuel Thompson (August 27, 1810 – July 8, 1886) was a Canadian businessman and newspaper editor. He was born in London, England in 1810. He completed an apprenticeship with a printer, then came to Upper Canada in 1833 with his two brothers and settled on farms there. In 1837, he went to Toronto in search of work. He joined the city guards during the Upper Canada Rebellion. He managed a newspaper for Charles Fothergill and then became a partner with booksellers William and Henry Rowsell, managing their printing operation. In 1848, he became editor for the