Format Broadsheet | Founded 1948 | |
Type Weekly student newspaper Owner(s) Newcastle University Students Union Editor Jade Holroyd (2016/17 Academic Year) Deputy editor Daniel Robertson & Ollie Burton | ||
The Courier is the free student weekly newspaper of Newcastle University's Student Union. It entirely written and edited by student volunteers, except for chief editor, which a paid sabbatical officer position at Students Union. Articles included in the print edition are also published online. The newspaper is divided into sections, including news, comment, sport, puzzles, lifestyle, music, film, TV, beauty, fashion, arts, gaming and science.
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History
Established in 1948 as King's Courier, while Newcastle University was still incorporated within Durham University as King's College, the current weekly readership is around 18,000, most of which students at the University. The newspaper is published every week during term time, usually on a Monday unless a major news or sports event warrants a delay, such as the Stan Calvert cup. It averages 40 pages in length. The current editor is Jade Holroyd, who succeeded Victoria Armstrong in the summer of 2016.
Awards
The Courier has won numerous awards including The Guardian's Student Newspaper of the Year award. In 2008, The Courier design editor Kerry Hyndman came runner up in the Guardian Student media award for Design for her work on the newspaper's entertainment pull-out, Pulp. As part of a redesign of the paper in 2009/2010 "Pulp", which was originally independent of The Courier, was discontinued and replaced by a lifestyle section fully integrated into the main body of The Courier.