The Cougar is a weekly newspaper run entirely by students at the University of Houston.

The Cougar publishes on Wednesday during the school year, but stories area added daily to its website presence.

[2] In 1965, the paper began a press run of four days a week with a release schedule of Tuesday through Friday.

On March 27, 1978, the newspaper added Mondays to its release schedule, and was renamed to The Daily Cougar.

As of 2003, The Cougar was Houston's second largest English-language daily newspaper, with a circulation of nearly 12,000 and a readership approaching 40,000.