Welcome to the sixth instalment of Honi Soit’s student media spotlight — a series where we sit down with student publications around Australia to discuss the triumphs and tribulations of student media.
Browsing: student journalism
Each week, and for decades before us, Honi has been laden with advertisements which interject student journalism, piss-takes, and art. But why? Honi is not a profitable paper — and prides itself on its boisterous independence.
On March 25, the editors of Noise, UNSW’s independent student publication established earlier this month, received a “cease and desist” email from Arc @ UNSW’s Director of Marketing & Experience, Mitchell McBurnie.
While the play was certainly an ode to the whimsy and abject lunacy of the student life, the ‘60s/‘20s juxtaposition provides an opportunity to reflect on the progresses, and regresses, of Australian culture and the university system (think HECs, lock-out laws, department mergers, the commodification of tertiary study, the inaccessibility of student housing).
The GW Hatchet is an independent, non-profit student newspaper that has been in circulation since 1904. A George Washington namesake (one of the founding fathers of the University), the paper is said to be inspired by a tale where Washington was chopping down a cherry tree with a hatchet.
Student media at Queensland University of Technology face funding cuts in a move that will tangibly harm campus life.
Existing simultaneously at the fringes of Australia’s media industry and at the heart of campus culture within universities, there is a lot that student journalism can teach us about democratising our media landscape.
At dawn on April 14, Russian police raided the office of Doxa — a Moscow-based student newspaper — and six…
For decades, student journalism has served to expose the horrors that lurk beneath the surface of an otherwise innocuous campus.
Regarding the recent censorship of our live blog
