Overview

Founded in 1890 under the name College Topics, The Cavalier Daily (the "CD") is the independent daily newspaper at the University of Virginia. The Cavalier Daily is Virginia’s oldest collegiate daily and the oldest daily newspaper in Charlottesville, Va. Since the summer of 1996, The Cavalier Daily has been the only daily newspaper at the University, with a print circulation of 10,000 distributed on Grounds and in the surrounding Charlottesville area. The Cavalier Daily also publishes a daily Online Edition with expanded and enhanced content that has been recognized by Student Council as the University’s best Web site.

The Cavalier Daily is an entirely student-run, non-profit organization with an operating budget accrued solely through advertising.

The diverse staff of more than 150 students has earned awards for outstanding news writing, editorial writing, feature writing, and overall design, and is consistently ranked a four-star newspaper by the Associated Collegiate Press. For the 1998-99 school year, The Cavalier Daily was awarded the ACP’s Pacemaker Award for Newspaper Excellence, recognizing it as one of the best collegiate dailies in the nation. For the same year, The Cavalier Daily was awarded 11 Virginia Press Association awards, in competition with professional newspapers from throughout Virginia.

Cavalier Daily staffers have gone on to write professionally for some of journalism’s most prestigious publications, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Baltimore Sun, and The Washington Post. In addition, staff members routinely earn summer internships with top-ranked media organizations, such as ABC News, NBC News, The Baltimore Sun, The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Daily News, The Washington Post, Sports Illustrated, and The Portland Oregonian.

Publishing Schedule, Etc.

The Cavalier Daily is published Monday through Friday during the school year (except school breaks and exam periods) and weekly during the summer, and is printed in the offices of The Culpeper Star-Exponent.

Offices of The Cavalier Daily are located in the basement of Newcomb Hall at the University of Virginia: PO Box 400703, Charlottesville, VA, 22904-4703. The Cavalier Daily can be reached at (434) 924-1083. Office hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

The opinions expressed in The Cavalier Daily are not necessarily those of the students, faculty, staff or administration of the University of Virginia. Editorials represent the majority opinion of the Managing Board. Columns and cartoons represent the views of the authors. The Managing Board of The Cavalier Daily is solely responsible for the newspaper’s contents.