The Crimson White
| Type | Student newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | University of Alabama |
| Editor | Sean Landry |
| Founded | 1894 (as The Crimson-White) |
| Headquarters | 414 Campus Drive East. Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 United States |
| Website | www.cw.ua.edu |
The Crimson White, known colloquially as "The CW," is a student-run publication of the University of Alabama published twice a week under The Crimson White Media Group. Its circulation in the fall and spring is about 14,000, and it is distributed across the UA campus and Tuscaloosa community. The Crimson White has built a social media presence of around 46,000 Twitter followers and 16,000 Facebook fans as of November 10, 2015, significantly increasing its numbers after covering the April 27, 2011 EF4 tornado that devastated Tuscaloosa.
The CW is part of UA's Office of Student Media (OSM), an auxiliary department overseen by the university's vice president for student affairs. The department also includes the Alabama Scholastic Press Association, the Corolla yearbook, the Black Warrior Review and Marr's Field Journal literary magazines, The Southern Historian history journal, and 90.7 The Capstone, the student-run radio station. The OSM associate director for editorial advises the newspaper staff but has no control over or responsibility for The Crimson White's content.
The newspaper is editorially independent. The Crimson White's editor and advertising manager are selected annually by the 11-member Media Planning Board (MPB), whose membership includes students, faculty, and media professionals. All staff positions and titles are dependent upon the current Editor-in-Chief and are traditionally decided in mid-April after the next year's Editor has been selected. Depending on ad sales, the newspaper's daily size varies between eight pages and more than 20 pages.
The CW is an affiliate of UWIRE, which distributes and promotes its content to their network.
The CW began production in 1894 as "The Crimson-White" and derived its name from the team colors of UA athletics teams, crimson and white. The hyphen in the newspaper's name first disappeared from the masthead in the early 1960s and was gone for good by 1974. The paper originally was a weekly publication but added editions through the years until reaching a four-days-a-week printing schedule by the 1980s. The CW ceased printing newspapers on August 24, 2015, opting instead to print a twice weekly news magazine.
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