The Daily Cardinal Alumni Association
130 years of sifting and winnowing
The story continues.
The Daily Cardinal Alumni Association supports the operations of The Daily Cardinal, the nation’s sixth-oldest college daily newspaper. Our members raise funds, mentor, and provide assistance in any way requested by the staff, from technical know-how to legal advice.
We do this work because the Cardinal benefitted us tremendously in ways professional and personal, and we believe in preserving those opportunities for the next generation of Cardinal staffers. The Cardinal’s practical, on-the-ground method of training has an extraordinary track record of producing journalists and leaders, without many of the barriers to entry found in internship or fellowship programs.
We do this work because those who care about journalism must support its future. And because, as Cardinal founder William Wesley Young once wrote, “we believe the University is in need of a daily paper and to do without it longer would be an irreparable injury.”