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The Courier

Front page from the October 13, 2008, edition
Type	Weekly student newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner	Newcastle University Union Society
Editor	Sam Parker (As of early 2009)
Founded	1948
Political alignment	Centre-left
Language	English
Headquarters	Union Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne
Circulation	12,000[1]
Official website	courier.unionsociety.co.uk

The Courier is the free weekly newspaper of Newcastle University's Student Union. Established in 1948, the current weekly readership is around 12,000, most of which are students at the University. The newspaper is published every week during term time, along with the weekly Pulp entertainments pull-out. It averages 44 pages in length. The most recent editor has been Sam Parker.^[2]

The Courier has won numerous awards ^[1] including The Guardian's Student Newspaper of the Year award. In 2008, the Courier design editor Kerry Hyndman came runner up in the Guardian Student media award for Design for her work on the newspaper's entertainment pull-out, Pulp.^[3]

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• The Courier Website
• Newcastle University's Union Society

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