Indiana Daily Student history

Instruction began in 1893 with three students in the first class.

In 1897, Florence Reid Myrick became the paper's first female editor-in-chief.

In 1899, the newspaper was renamed the Daily Student.

The university gained ownership of the Daily Student in 1910 and used it as a journalism lab.

In 1911, the School of Journalism was formed.

In 1914, the paper was renamed to its current publication title, the Indiana Daily Student.

In September 1922, Ernie Pyle became editor-in-chief and later left IU a semester before graduation to work at a paper in LaPorte, Indiana.

Professor Joseph Piercy was named the first head of the department; he served until 1938.

On December 7, 1941, the IDS ran an extra on the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and is one of two known college newspapers to publish that afternoon.

In 1946, the High School Journalism Institute began, directed by Professor Gretchen Kemp.

The IDS moved to Ernie Pyle Hall in 1954.

Richard G. Gray became chairman of the department in 1968.

On July 1, 1969, the paper adopted its charter and became financially and editorially independent from the University.

The first Ph.D. degree was granted in 1971.

Students paid for an IDS subscription until 1973, when it became free.

After a national fundraising campaign, Ernie Pyle Hall was renovated in 1976.

Due to declining revenue, the IDS began charging a quarter per issue in the spring of 1981.

The school became system-wide in 1982, responsible for the coordination of journalism education on all eight campuses.

Gray became dean and helped establish the undergraduate major on the Indianapolis campus of IUPUI. Under the leadership of Associate Dean James Brown at IUPUI, the school took over administration of the campus newspaper, the Sagamore, and appointed its first publisher in 1985.

In 1989, the school separated from the College of Arts and Sciences, becoming one of seven independent academic schools on the Bloomington campus.

Since 1990, students on both the Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses enroll in the Bachelor of Arts in Journalism (B.A.J.) program.

In the summer of 1996, the IDS launched its website, the Indiana Digital Student, now known as idsnews.com

In 2005, Bradley Hamm was named the third dean of the School of Journalism.