The Collegian AIG sponsored two Zoom Roundtables for Collegian staff members, including one with Erica Beshears Perel, the former student newspaper general manager who turned around The Daily Tar Heel at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The other Zoom Roundtable star was Collegian alum Sara Cudemo, who Read more…
The Collegian AIG sponsored two Zoom Roundtables with experts early in September and more are scheduled for later this fall. The first was held Sept. 6 with digital marketing expert Krystle Kopacz, CEO at Revmade, an award-winning marketing strategy company. That roundtable can be viewed here. The second, held Sept. 13 Read more…
The Daily Collegian needs your help. Please click this link to quickly and easily send a letter to University President Neeli Bendapudi asking her not to cut the university’s support for our beloved Collegian by more than half. In September, the Penn State Board of Trustees approved a fiscal year Read more…
The Daily Collegian staff won the top sweepstakes award for media outlets at Pennsylvania’s largest universities – meaning that it won more honors than any other student media at a school with more than 10,000 students – in the annual contest sponsored by the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association. The Daily Collegian Read more…
Seventeen Collegian Alums and Collegian students handed out hundreds of Collegian 135th anniversary commemorative editions and 1,000 pens stamped with the Collegian 135th anniversary logo as they marched in the 2022 PSU Homecoming parade behind Collegian and Collegian AIG banners. Two days later, 39 students and Collegian alums attended a Read more…
The Collegian Alumni Interest Group (AIG) launched a fundraiser last spring in honor of the 135th anniversary of The Daily Collegian. All of the money raised will go to a project to be chosen by The Collegian students. The fundraising effort ends Nov. 1. Below is a list of the Read more…
In the most recent Zoom roundtable sponsored by The Collegian Alumni Interest Group (AIG), three experts on digital media and publishing talked about their careers and how their experiences at Penn State, particularly at The Daily Collegian, aided them. Leen Obeidat, director of Business Development at flytedesk, a technology firm Read more…
Four sports reporters with Collegian experience who have covered PSU football over decades will tell their gridiron tales during a panel in the Bellisario College of Communications on Oct. 23 as part of the celebration of The Daily Collegian’s 135th anniversary. The panel, titled, “Stories from the Penn State Football Read more…
Three New York Times journalists shared experience, advice and insights with about 30 students from The Daily Collegian staff in a Zoom roundtable on Sept. 12 sponsored by The Collegian Alumni Interest Group (AIG). They talked about what drew them to journalism, how the Collegian experience helped them and what Read more…
The Daily Collegian Alumni Interest Group (AIG) has tentatively scheduled its annual meeting for Sept. 11. The meeting, to be conducted via teleconference, will begin at noon. At the annual meeting, new officers will be elected, including president, vice president, treasurer and secretary. In addition, the board will discuss its Read more…