The Society of Professional Journalists has named three IDS staff members as the national winners of the 2025 Mark of Excellence Awards.
The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) honored student journalists from Indiana University’s Indiana Daily Student and Purdue University’s The Exponent with the inaugural Fred Brown SPJ Ethics in Journalism Award for standing together in defense of journalism amid administrative pressure.
On Saturday, April 22, the Indiana Daily Student took earned top honors at the 69th annual Indiana Collegiate Press Association awards lunch. More than 100 representatives from schools across Indiana attended the event held in the Indiana Memorial Union’s Tudor Room.
On April 2, 2026, Indiana Daily Student reporters Mia Hilkowitz, Nathan Shriberg, Savannah Slone, and Kasey Watkins won first place in the 2026 Drake Group Education Fund Student Journalism Prize for Investigative Reporting on Intercollegiate Athletics for their article "Could Big Ten schools use NIL deals to circumvent salary cap?"
On March 17, 2026, the IDS was awarded the Gold Crown for College Hybrid News by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.
The Indiana Daily Student has been awarded the Dan Rather Medal for News and Guts for their coverage on university censorship
At a meeting of the IU Student Media Publications Board on Friday April 3, Juniors Jack Forrest and Mateo Fuentes-Rohwer were named the next IDS co-editors-in-chief for the upcoming fall semester.
This year at the David L. Adams Apple Awards, the Indiana Daily Student and Arbutus yearbook have earned six awards with two honorable mentions.
The Indiana Daily Student will hold the spring Housing Fair on Wednesday, Feb. 18 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Alumni Hall in the Indiana Memorial Union.
Bloomington, Ind. — Due to overwhelming demand, the Indiana Daily Student are re-printing the NCAA National Championship Edition newspaper.
To celebrate the historic win against the Miami Hurricanes, The Indiana Daily Student (IDS) is proud to announce the release of the 2026 National Championship edition commemorative reproduction poster, on sale now through the student media online store.
To celebrate the historic win against Ohio State, The Indiana Daily Student (IDS) is proud to announce the release of its 2025 Big Ten Championship edition commemorative reproduction poster, on sale now.
The Indiana Daily Student received two Pacemaker Awards from the Associated Collegiate Press at its fall 2025 conference — for both Multiplatform organization and for Newspaper/Newsmagazine. For the first time in its history, IUSTV was a finalist for a Broadcast Pacemaker.
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The Indiana Daily Student (IDS) was recognized for its exceptional commitment to community reporting at the Bloom Magazine Community Awards ceremony, held Sept. 19 at the Woolery Mill.
The Indiana Daily Student earned 20 honors, IUSTV three and IU NewsNet one for excellence in student journalism.
The Indiana Daily Student took top honors at the Saturday, April 12 event in Bloomington.
At a meeting of the IU Student Media Publications Board on Friday March 28, juniors Mia Hilkowitz and Andrew Miller were named the next IDS co-editors-in-chief for the upcoming fall semester.
During the Spring National College Media Conference, the Associated Collegiate Press named the Indiana Daily Student as a winner for top college journalism websites.
The Indiana Daily Student and Arbutus yearbook earned 10 awards in the David L. Adams Apple Awards competition, which were announced Saturday, March 1, at the College Media Association national spring convention in New York City.
