Whois & Analysis for onwardstate.com

Onward State is a student-run news website geared toward members of the Penn State community in Pennsylvania.

The website provides news, features, and commentary on issues impacting Penn State and State College.

Onward State has published more than 10,000 stories since its founding in November 2008.

It was voted the "Best Alternative Media Outlet" in a February 2009 online contest by U.S. News and World Report.

Onward State has been cited in the New York Times, USA TODAY, ESPN, The Washington Post, and many other national news outlets.

The Associated Press has described Onward State as "one of Penn State's smarter, if sometimes-snarky blogs." Onward State currently has the largest social media following of any college news source in the world.

The Pennsylvania State University (commonly referred to as Penn State or PSU) is a public, land-grant, research-intensive university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania.

Founded in 1855, the university has a stated threefold mission of teaching, research, and public service.

Its instructional mission includes undergraduate, graduate, professional and continuing education offered through resident instruction and online delivery.

Its University Park campus, the flagship campus, lies within the Borough of State College and College Township.

It has two law schools, Penn State Law, on the school's University Park campus, and Dickinson Law, located in Carlisle, 90 miles south of State College.

The College of Medicine is located in Hershey.

Penn State has another 19 commonwealth campuses and 5 special-mission campuses located across the state.

Penn State has been labeled one of the "Public Ivies," a publicly funded university considered as providing a quality of education comparable to those of the Ivy League.

State College is a home rule municipality in Centre County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

It is the largest designated borough in Pennsylvania.

It is the principal borough of the six municipalities that make up the State College Metropolitan Statistical Area, the largest settlement in Centre County and one of the principal cities of the greater State College-DuBois Combined Statistical Area with a combined population of 236,577 as of the 2010 United States Census.

In the 2010 census, the borough population was 42,034 with approximately 105,000 living in the borough plus the surrounding townships often referred to locally as the "Centre Region." Many of these Centre Region communities also carry a "State College, PA" address although are not part of the borough of State College.

A blog (a truncation of the expression weblog) is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries ("posts").

Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order, so that the most recent post appears first, at the top of the web page.

Until 2009, blogs were usually the work of a single individual, occasionally of a small group, and often covered a single subject or topic.

In the 2010s, "multi-author blogs" (MABs) have developed, with posts written by large numbers of authors and sometimes professionally edited.

MABs from newspapers, other media outlets, universities, think tanks, advocacy groups, and similar institutions account for an increasing quantity of blog traffic.

The rise of Twitter and other "microblogging" systems helps integrate MABs and single-author blogs into the news media.

Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

The news media or news industry are those elements of the mass media that focus on delivering news to the general public or a target public.

These include print media (newspapers, newsmagazines), broadcast news (radio and television), and more recently the Internet (online newspapers, news blogs, etc).