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The Minnesota Daily

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Type	Daily/Weekly newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	The Minnesota Daily Board of Directors
Publisher	http://www.mndaily.com/about/leadership
Editor-in-chief	Dylan Scott
Founded	1900
Language	American English
Headquarters	Minneapolis, Minnesota
Circulation	20,000 (M-Th Fall/Spring), 15,000 (W Summer)
Website	www.mndaily.com

The Minnesota Daily is the campus newspaper of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, published Monday and Thursday while school is in session, and published weekly on Wednesdays during summer sessions. Published since 1900, the paper is currently the largest student-run and student-written newspaper in the United States and the third-largest paper in the state of Minnesota, behind the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the St. Paul Pioneer Press. "The Daily" was named best daily college newspaper in the United States in 2009 and 2010 by the Society of Professional Journalists. The paper is independent from the University, but receives $550,000 worth of student service fees funding.

The Daily has a distribution of 14,200 copies per day (Monday through Wednesday during the school year) and 16,000 copies per day (Thursdays during the school year) – available at over 200 locations on and near campus free of charge, as it is largely funded by advertising. A typical edition has about a dozen pages, with a special sports section every Monday and arts & entertainment section every Tuesday and Thursday. The Daily also provides readers with several special issues, including voters guides, housing guides, survival guides (published the first day of school), "Best of" inserts via the Grapevine Awards Fair (recognizing local businesses) and even parody issues – distributed during finals weeks.

The Minnesota Daily is entirely student-run and student-written, with an average staff of 130 students per semester. The newspaper dually operates as a training institution, providing students with real work experience in journalism, photography, editing, advertising sales, marketing, finance, graphic design, editorial & advertising production, human resources, information systems, public relations, survey research and web programming. In addition, many students gain leadership and delegation skills in the Daily's many management positions.