Purdue Exponent

The Exponent

The January 20, 2006 front page of The Exponent
Type	Student newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
School	Purdue University
Owner(s)	Purdue Student Publishing Foundation
Publisher	Kyle Charters
Editor	Seth Nelson
Founded	1889; 136 years ago (1889)
Headquarters	460 Northwestern Avenue West Lafayette, IN 47906 United States
City	West Lafayette
Website	purdueexponent.org

The Purdue Exponent is an independent student newspaper that serves Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. It is published on Mondays and Thursdays during university semesters by the Purdue Student Publishing Foundation, and is Indiana's largest collegiate newspaper.

The Exponent employs four full-time professionals, relying for most operations on a staff of approximately 100 students,^[1] though the university has no journalism school.

Exponent alumni have won six Pulitzers, six Emmys, two Peabodys, and two John Chancellors.