Glasgow University Guardian
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Glasgow University Guardian is the student newspaper of the University of Glasgow.
Founded in 1956 as the Gilmorehill Guardian, it changed its name in 1960 to the Glasgow University Guardian under editor Neil MacCormick. The publication is produced by students of the university on a voluntary basis and funded by the Glasgow University Students' Representative Council and revenue from advertising. The paper is compact-sized and has a circulation of three thousand copies per issue and a readership of fifteen thousand according to independent research by media buyers BAM. The editor must be a matriculated student, although many non-students have contributed to the paper over the years.
Many contributors to Guardian go on to have successful careers in the media and politics, and the newspaper has been a launchpad for many high profile figures. Former editors include Scotland's first First Minister, Donald Dewar; Andrew Neil, the political broadcaster and former editor of The Sunday Times; John Mullin, assistant editor of The Independent; Iain Martin, deputy editor of The Sunday Telegraph; Fraser Nelson, editor of The Spectator; Martin Patience (Afghanistan Correspondent, BBC News), and William Boyd, author and winner of the Whitbread Award and a Somerset Maugham Award.
Guardian has reported on sex tourism in Vietnam, racist door policies of Glasgow nightclubs and conducted the first ever independent staff satisfaction survey which revealed doubts about the University management strategy. In 2004 Guardian revealed a CIA officer was working as a lecturer in the Politics department and a year later that Glasgow University Union had been spending part of its grant on a pornography channel subscription, money which had been intended for front line student services. In the same year, it ran an undercover investigation into sub-standard and dangerous student housing, which was described by the editor of The Herald as "campaigning journalism at its best. In 2006, it also revealed that university management were rewarding big donors with honorary degrees. The paper has also featured an exclusive interview with former Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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