The Newspaper

"the newspaper", published by non-profit corporation Planet Publications Inc., is the largest independent student-run campus newspaper in Canada and publishes in the highly competitive newspaper market of the University of Toronto, Canada's largest university. "the newspaper" also operated for a brief part of its publishing history, which began in 1978, as "The Independent Weekly". "the newspaper" is notable because it has been self-supporting financially for its entire history at a university which has no school of journalism. It has survived despite competing against many student-fee-supported campus newspapers, with which it competes in the advertising market. "the newspaper" is officially recognized by the University of Toronto under the campus media policy of its Governing Council, a unique policy protecting the rights of independent publishers on the University of Toronto campus.

Film director Atom Egoyan, novelists Rohinton Mistry and Ray Robertson and television public affairs host Steve Paikin all worked for "the newspaper" as students while attending the University of Toronto. Many alumni of "the newspaper" today occupy significant positions in business, politics and the news media in Canada.

In "the newspaper's" first year of publication prominent professors at the University of Toronto contributed articles, including Allan Bloom, Denis Duffy and Robertson Davies.

The founding editors of the newspaper were Steven Petranik, Thomas Simpson and Ken Whitehurst.

"the newspaper's" offices are Located at 1 Spadina Crescent in Toronto, Ontario.

Currently the paper distributes on Thursdays, with 17,000 issues printed each week.

References

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