College Tribune
The College Tribune is the student newspaper of University College Dublin (UCD) in Ireland. It started in 1989 with help from journalist Vincent Browne, who was an evening student at UCD. The paper was created to provide an independent campus news voice separate from the university and the Students' Union. Founding editor Eamon Dillon and Browne launched the Tribune, which had early ties to the Sunday Tribune. Sunday Tribune stopped publishing in 2011, while the College Tribune continues. It is UCD’s oldest surviving newspaper, published for more than 30 years.
The print edition is a tabloid of about 32 pages. Around 20 pages cover news, features, science and technology, business, politics and sport; the remaining 12 pages form The Trib, a pull-out arts and culture section featuring music, film, fashion, arts, satire and entertainment. The Turbine is the paper’s satire section (formerly Angry Gerald).
Content from the print edition and extra material appear on collegetribune.ie, which has had a standalone site since 2011. Articles are also shared on Facebook and Twitter.
The College Tribune operates independently of university authorities and is funded entirely by advertising. Editors and section editors are unpaid volunteers from the university community who set the content. While the paper engages with university authorities to represent student interests, the university does not control the content.
Within the campus media scene, Belfield FM and UCDTV are student societies, while the University Observer is published by the Students’ Union.
Many Tribune alumni have gone on to work for major outlets such as The Times Ireland, The Irish Times, Irish Independent, RTÉ, and CNN. The paper has also earned national recognition, winning several student media awards, including Newspaper of the Year in 1996 and 2016/17, and multiple awards for individual writers and editors in recent years.
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