Hugo Hay (Senior Editor), Ashray Kumar, China Meldrum, Kelly Caviedi, Joan Brizuela, Bipasha Chakraborty, and Estelle Vigouroux will edit the magazine for the next year.
Browsing: student journalism
The media is quick to bury their demands, management at the University of Sydney wants control of the narrative again, and students just want to graduate without blood on their hands. But we cannot forget what this is all for: an end to the genocide in Gaza, and a free Palestine.
Honi’s conversation with Pelican was an interesting change of pace to previous Spotlights. While sharing a desire to engage with their student community in a meaningful way, Pelican were hesitant to place their shortcomings on external factors. Instead they confessed a mission to cultivate student community as crucial to ever have a chance at combating the turbulence of student media.
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.
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.