The Daily Collegian

Name

The Daily Collegian

Legal name

Collegian, Inc.

Website

https://collegian.psu.edu

Company type

Private

Founded year

1887

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Student Newspaper / Digital News Publishing

NAICS

Newspaper Publishers (513110), Periodical Publishers (513120)

SIC

Newspapers: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2711), Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721)

akta.pro primary industry

Student Media & Publications (Newspaper, Radio, TV) (EDALAHAE)

akta.pro secondary industry

Alternative/Independent Newsweeklies & Opinion Press (MPAJADAH)

Keywords

• Student newspaper publishing
• Campus digital journalism
• College sports media
• Independent news reporting
• University press content

Headquarters

HQ city

State College

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

The Daily Collegian operates a student-run digital news platform (psucollegian.com) that publishes independent journalism covering Penn State University news, athletics (with emphasis on football and wrestling), opinion, lifestyle, and multimedia content. The publication is supported by email newsletters, a sports podcast, classifieds, branded merchandise, a print PDF edition, and a mobile app.

Product overview

The Daily Collegian is a student-run news organization at Penn State University structured in two divisions: a news division and a business division. The core product is its digital news website (psucollegian.com) which publishes independent journalism across news, sports, opinion, lifestyle, and multimedia categories. The portfolio includes The 107k Podcast for sports coverage, three email newsletters (Daily Collegian, Football, and Wrestling), a PDF print edition, Lion's List classifieds, a merchandise store, and a mobile application.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• USA Today: National general-interest newspaper with a heavy sports and lifestyle vertical. While not student-focused, it competes for the same digital attention from Penn State students and alumni and is a comparable reference point for digital newsroom scale and monetization.

Direct peers

• The Stanford Daily: Independent student-run daily newspaper serving Stanford University. Directly comparable as a fellow large private-university student newspaper with digital-first operations, multimedia products, and similar revenue mix of advertising, subscriptions, and donations.
• The Cornell Daily Sun: Cornell University's independent student daily. Comparable in being a long-running student-led daily covering a large research university with sports, opinion, and investigative content delivered digitally.
• The Michigan Daily: Independent student newspaper at the University of Michigan with a comparable Big Ten sports franchise (especially football). Closely mirrors The Daily Collegian in audience composition, athletic focus, and digital distribution model.
• The Daily Northwestern: Northwestern University's independent student daily. Comparable in operating model (student-staffed, nonprofit, digital-led), audience (students, alumni, local community), and editorial mix of news, sports, opinion, and multimedia.
• The Harvard Crimson: Harvard's independent student daily, founded 1873, covering news, sports, and opinion with a digital-first strategy. Comparable in editorial scope, multimedia expansion, and nonprofit student-publishing structure to The Daily Collegian.
• The Cavalier Daily: University of Virginia's independent student newspaper. Directly comparable in structure (student-run nonprofit daily), coverage areas (news, sports, opinion), and reliance on digital advertising plus alumni/donor revenue.
• The Daily Texan: University of Texas at Austin's student newspaper, operating under a similar independent nonprofit structure with a heavy emphasis on coverage of a major college football program. Comparable in scale, audience, and editorial focus.

Emerging players

• Bleacher Report: Digital-first sports media company with strong NCAA and college football coverage, particularly on social and mobile. Comparable as a competitor for Penn State sports audience attention and as a benchmark for social-native sports content distribution.
• On3: Digital sports media company specializing in college athletics recruiting, team coverage, and NIL content. Overlaps with The Daily Collegian on Penn State football and recruiting coverage and competes for the same digitally engaged fan audience.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/dailycollegian
• YouTubeyoutube.com/c/TheDailyCollegian
• Facebookfacebook.com/collegian
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/the-daily-collegian
• Instagraminstagram.com/dailycollegian
• TikToktiktok.com/@thedailycollegian?lang=en

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles15 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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