The editor-in-chief is the only person to serve an entire school year in the same position, and the editorial board changes every semester.

Also that year, The Daily became a member of the Associated Press — the only college paper at that time with full voting and membership rights.

In May 1956, a libel suit was filed against editor George Gravely and faculty supervisor Louise B. Moore.

The photos were processed separately and pasted into the "windows" produced by the black rectangles on the proof pages.

It could register and print full-page process color with high quality and did on occasion, using the two stacked units.

The backshop and offset press occupied a large area on the north side of the first floor of Copeland Hall.

In 1976, The Daily entered the computer age with a system that used video display terminals and a scanner to read typed copy.

The Daily's coverage of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing was recognized nationally, as media from all over the world contacted its reporters for information.

In 2006, The Daily's website merged with the Sooner Information Network (SIN) and formed a student portal, the HUB.

The Daily has won the Associated Collegiate Press' Pacemaker Award – considered by some to be the Pulitzer Prize of college journalism – five times, in 1989, 1994, 1995, 2004 and 2011.

The stories and the attention they garnered off campus helped precipitate the resignation of university president Richard Van Horn.

In 1995, the newspaper aggressively and poignantly covered the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in nearby Oklahoma City.

As a part of the redesign, side bars were inserted, allowing for brief news stories to be featured in an easily seen format.