The University Times
The front page of “The University Times”
on January 21, 2014 |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
|---|---|
| Editor | Dominic McGrath |
| Deputy editor | Eleanor O'Mahony |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Headquarters | Mandela House, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland |
| Circulation | 10,000 |
| ISSN | 2009-261X |
| Website | universitytimes |
The University Times is the largest student newspaper in Ireland. Published from Trinity College Dublin, it is financially supported by Trinity College Dublin Students' Union but maintains a mutually agreed policy of editorial independence. universitytimes.ie is one of Ireland's leading student news websites, with a readership of over 100,000 unique monthly readers. In 2015, the website had over one million unique readers.
Published alongside the broadsheet newspaper, The University Times Magazine is a culture and feature supplement published with The University Times, focused on national and international issues, including politics. Radius, the Dublin culture supplement, focuses on events and culture ran on Trinity's campus and the surrounding city centre.
The current editor, Dominic McGrath, is the ninth to hold the position since the newspaper replaced the Students' Union's community publication The University Record in 2009, and is the third editor independently elected – separate from the Students' Union's Communications Officer. She ran uncontested.
In April 2014, The University Times won "Publication of the Year" for the first time at the Union of Students in Ireland awards ceremony. It won the award for the second year in a row in 2015 and again in 2016.
Alumni of the paper have gone on to work for The Independent, the Sunday Business Post, the National Journal, the Union of Students in Ireland, Storyful and Twitter.
The University Times was founded in 2009 by Rob Donoghue, who was also elected Communications Officer of Trinity College Dublin Students' Union. In his first editorial, Donoghue wrote about the importance of the free press, writing: "Any measure that attempts to impose a chilling effect on the immutable right of a newspaper to print what it is right to print is failing to protect the members of this College. The paper stands for the right to say just as much as it stands for your right to hear."
The University Times Magazine was founded in 2012, with Tommy Gavin serving as its first editor.
Radius, the paper's Dublin cultural supplement, was founded in 2015 under the editorship of Edmund Heaphy, with Carla King-Molina serving as its first editor.
The University Times newspaper consists of a 20-page broadsheet which is divided into sections: News, InFocus, Comment & Analysis and Sport.
The University Times Magazine consists of a 24-page pullout magazine. A typical issue runs three long features as well as its usual culture sections: Fashion, Music, Literature, Food & Drink, Film & TV. The magazine is unique in that it looks beyond Trinity and Dublin, looking at national and often international politics and developments.
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