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Type	Daily student newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner	The Stanford Daily Publishing Corporation
Editor-in-Chief	Nick Parker
Founded	1892
Price	Free of charge to students
Headquarters	Storke Publications Building Suite 101 Stanford, CA 94305 United States
Circulation	10,000
Website: stanforddaily.com

The Stanford Daily is the student-run, independent daily newspaper serving Stanford University. It has published since the University was founded in 1892. The paper began as a small publication known locally as The Daily Palo Alto (not to be confused with the Palo Alto Daily News). The Stanford Daily Publishing Corporation, a non-profit corporation that operates the newspaper, was founded in 1973, after the newspaper became independent from the University and embroiled in a legal battle over the identities of unnamed Vietnam War protesters in photos printed in the paper. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court, where the newspaper faced off against the Palo Alto Police Department in Zurcher v. Stanford Daily. The Court ruled 5-3 in favor of Zurcher. The Daily is distributed throughout campus and the surrounding community of Palo Alto. [1]

The paper publishes weekdays during the academic year. Unlike many other campus publications, it enjoys a wide circulation of 10,000 and is distributed at 500 locations on the Stanford campus, including dormitory dining halls, and through the city of Palo Alto. In addition to the daily newspaper, The Daily publishes two weekly supplements: Intermission, a weekly pullout entertainment section; and, Cardinal Today, a weekly sports "outsert" during football and basketball seasons. The Daily also published several special issues every year: The Orientation Issue, Big Game Issue, and The Commencement Issue. In the fall of 2008, staffers will move into a state-of-the-art building near the recently renovated student union.

After The Daily became independent from the university, a volunteer group of alumni founded an organization to provide support for the newspaper. The group's web site has a database of alumni. [2]

In the March/April 2003 issue of the Stanford Magazine for alumni, Joannie Fischer wrote a balanced story about the newspaper's history. [3]

• Maynard Parker '62, former editor of Newsweek Magazine
• Philip Taubman '70, former Washington Bureau chief of The New York Times
• Felicity Barringer '72, chief environmental correspondent for The New York Times
• Peter Bhatia '75, the executive editor of The Oregonian in Portland and the former president of the The American Society of Newspaper Editors.
• John Arthur, the managing editor of the Los Angeles Times
• Doyle McManus, the Washington bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times
• Joel Stein '93, Los Angeles Times columnist

• Stanford Chaparral

• The Stanford Daily Online Edition

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