A hearty congratulations to our content partners at The Daily Mustang, who are celebrating their first anniversary today.

We obviously have a soft spot for an online-only news org developing on a college campus where a print newspaper has been the main outlet. I'm glad to see them continuing to grow and expand.

Faculty adviser Jake Batsell shares some key stats:

Some highlights of Daily Mustang, Year One:

• 190,267 Total pageviews

• Web visitors from 130 countries, ranging from the United States (94% of all visits) to Mozambique (one person visited and spent more than 14 minutes on the site!)

• Twitter followers: 1,198 (become our 1,200th follower by visiting http://twitter.com/dailymustang)

• Celebrities interviewed by SMU journalism students: Quincy Jones, George W. Bush, Mark Wahlberg, Valerie Plame, Adrien Brody, Condoleezza Rice

• Local TV news stations that visited the Convergence Newsroom for on-air stories: Four (Fox4, WFAA, TXA 21, CW's The 33)

• Cable stations that ran footage of President Bush's walk down the Journalism Complex hallway: One (MSNBC)

• Daily Mustang photos that ran in the print edition of The Dallas Morning News: One (Lindsey Washburn's photo of Condi Rice)

• Links from dallasnews.com blogs: Too many to count

• Content-sharing agreements with hyperlocal news sites: One (Pegasus News: http://www.pegasusnews.com/content-partner/daily-mustang/)