About the Daily Illini

Since 1871, The Daily Illini has been a mainstay on the University of Illinois campus and has grown into on of the country's largest student-run newspapers. Distributed free throughout Champaign-Urbana, The Daily Illini provides the campus community with its number on source for news, sports coverage and commentary, and public opinion. Through its Diversions section, highlights of campus life and film and entertainment reviews are published three days a week. And, with its award-winning Web site, The Daily Illini covers campus 24/7.

Additionally, a number of topical special editions - including out New Student Edition, Ebert Film Festival Guide, and semi-annual career, dining, and housing guides - round out our coverage of the University community.

About Illini Media

Illini Media is a non-profit corporation chartered by the State of Illinois in 1911 and has been the heart of communication for students at the University of Illinois for almost a century. Operating The Daily Illini, Buzz, WPGU-FM, the Illio Yearbook and the Technograph engineering magazine and a host of websites, Illini Media offers students a wide range of opportunities to work in media, and provides student organizations and local businesses with a successful means of communicating their messages.

Our Media Units

*Buzz

  • An alternative voice
  • Published every Thursday
  • Published 52 weeks a year
  • To inform, entertain, and delight
  • Champaign-Urbana's premier entertainment, arts, and dining magazine
  • Circulation of 25,000 copies - 17,000 being distributed as a supplement to The Daily Illini
  • Distributed at hundreds of local businesses and other sites throughout the community

*WPGU-FM

  • University of Illinois' student radio station
  • Alternative rock format
  • An audience from all over the Champaign-Urbana community
  • A commercial station with a 3,000 watt signal broadcasting 24/7
  • Live personailities
  • Feature and specialty programming
  • News and sports reporting
  • 18-49-year-olds are the primary target audience

*Illio

  • The official award-winning yearbook of the U of I
  • Founded in 1894
  • An annual publication of more than 450 pages

*Technograph

  • The University of Illinois' award-winning engineering magazine
  • Founded in 1885
  • Circulation of 3,000 copies
  • Distributed free of charge primarily on the engineering campus

*the217.com

  • Entertainment Calendar
  • Dining Directory
  • Buzz articles and extras
  • WPGU 107.1 Streaming Live
  • Recreation
  • Local Events
  • Music Scene Coverage