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The Spartan Daily is a not-for-profit, independent student newspaper serving San José State University and the surrounding Bay Area in San Jose, California.
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Type | Student Newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
School | San José State University |
Founder(s) | Dwight Bentel |
Founded | 1934 |
Language | English |
Headquarters | San Jose, California |
Circulation | 6,000[1] |
Website | https://sjsunews.com/ |
Free online archives | https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartan_daily/ |
As of 2023, The Spartan Daily publishes in print three times a week, and online daily when the university is in session (excluding holidays). It serves a student population of over 35,000 and a faculty and staff population of over 3,000. It is named for the university's mascot, the Spartan.
The first student newspaper at San Jose State was The Normal Times, which was a weekly paper published from October 1909 through June 1920. In September 1921 the student newspaper relaunched under the name The College Times though it soon changed its name to the State Teachers College Times in November 1921. This name would remain through the 1925–1926 academic year, before being changed to the State College Times before the start of the 1926–1927 academic year.[2]
Desiring to transition from a weekly paper to a daily paper, students, under the guidance of Dwight Bentel, launched The Spartan Daily in April 1934.[3][4] For Bentel's help in creating the paper, as well as his contributions to founding the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at San Jose State, the building which both houses the school and headquarters The Spartan Daily was named in his honor in 1982.[5]
The Spartan Daily also has separate publications on specialized topics, these include:
Since 2015, The Spartan Daily has won 30 national journalism awards and 120 state awards. As of 2023, eight San Jose State journalist alumni have won Pulitzer Prizes,[9] including:
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