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- The Daily Campus, founded in 1896, is a student-run newspaper at the University of Connecticut that has a circulation run of 8,000 copies weekdays during the school year and twice during the summer. The Daily Campus has the largest circulation of any college paper in Connecticut and the third-largest in New England, behind The Daily Collegian and The Harvard Crimson. Since its creation, the newspaper has undergone several name changes, starting as The Lookout, a monthly, when it published its first issue in May 1896. The name was changed to The Connecticut Campus in 1915, followed by The Connecticut Daily Campus, and then finally just The Daily Campus in 1984. It began publishing five days a week during the academic year in 1952 and became a morning paper in 1955. The newspaper's offices are located at The Daily Campus Building at 11 Dog Lane in Storrs, Connecticut. The paper was previously located across campus at 121 North Eagleville Road, but moved to their Dog Lane location in 1990. The building is located at the South entrance to campus, across the street from the Fine Arts Building, behind the Publications Building (which The Daily Campus has no relation to) and adjacent to Buckley Residence Hall. The two-story building houses the business staff and front-desk on the bottom floor and newsroom and board room on the second. The building's little-used basement houses the morgue, where the paper's archives are kept. The Editor-in-Chief, Managing Editor and Associate Managing Editor have offices on the second floor, while the Business Manager's office is located on the first. This was done to separate the departments as much as possible. The newspaper features four main sections: News, Commentary, Focus and Sports. Each section has its own department run by an editor and associate editor. There is also a Photography department, which provides student-shot pictures for every section. The staff and event photographers are managed by both a photo editor and associate editor. All students are encouraged to join the staff, whether they are journalism majors or not. The newspaper is an affiliate of UWIRE, which distributes and promotes its content to their network.
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