The Red & Black is an independent weekly student newspaper serving the University of Georgia (UGA), updated daily on its website.

[citation needed] The private venture's success that Fall upset the faculty, and they took back control in January 1896 with the Athletic Association in charge of overseeing the paper.

On August 15, 2011, The Red & Black released a special edition announcing a shift in news distribution that it called "a media revolution.

"[3] The paper’s student managers announced that the periodical would primarily focus on its online content, to better keep up with demand for mobile news access.

The website, which contains most of the newspaper's content, contains all of the features and articles previously found in the Monday-to-Friday paper, in addition to audio clips, videos, and other multimedia extras.

The nine sections are news and enterprise, sports, culture, opinion, digital, photo, design, special publications, and training.

[9] On August 15, 2012, student editors and other staff at The Red & Black resigned, claiming interference by non-student managers.