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The Daily Cougar

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The September 27, 2007 issue of
The Daily Cougar.
Type Student newspaper
Format Tabloid
Owner(s) Department of Student Publications (Independent student organization)
Founded 1928
Political alignment Independent
Headquarters Room 7, UC Satellite
University of Houston
Houston, Texas 77204
United States
Circulation ~12,000 Daily
Website thedailycougar.com

The Daily Cougar is a daily newspaper run entirely by students at the University of Houston.

In publication since April 6, 1928, The Daily Cougar was originally named The Cougar.The Daily Cougar operates as a student-managed, school-funded forum for the university community.

The Daily Cougar publishes Monday through Friday during the school year, and Wednesdays during the summer, though it has run Tuesdays and Thursdays, and Mondays and Wednesdays in previous summers. The Cougar also maintains a website in which content is distributed electronically online on a daily basis.

The newspaper was founded in 1928 by University of Houston students as The Cougar. By the 1950s, circulation had increased to 6,800. In 1965, the paper began a press run of four days a week with a release schedule of Tuesday through Friday. On March 27, 1978, the newspaper added Mondays to its release schedule, and was renamed to The Daily Cougar.

As of 2003, The Daily Cougar was Houston's second largest English-language daily newspaper, with a circulation of nearly 12,000 and a readership approaching 40,000.


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