New university student newspaper faces the scrap due to the lack of sponsorship.
Finally after much speculation and hard work, Alfie Winchesters’ new student newspaper, finally arrived in mid February. It’s Winchester’s first online student news website, written by the students for the students. However it faces being stopped due to lack of sponsorship needed to keep the site going.
The newspaper started when older students got together as they felt it would be excellent experience and also a brilliant asset for the university. So far Alfie has little sponsorship, editors have managed to get a few freebies off the printers for leaflets etc. but that was it. Talk from the newspapers editors allegedly say there is going to be discussion with the university and local businesses about sponsorship. So far Alfie’s future doesn’t look optimistic.
There a many students involved as there are departments in News, Sport, Fashion, Music, and Finance. Each reporter went through a gruelling interview process to work for the newspaper, and many applicants were rejected. Caroline Hendry is the fashion editor. She stated her reasons on why she got involved with the newspaper. “My perfect job would be to write for a women’s magazine and I think working for the newspaper teaches the importance of deadlines and organisation.”
In the start there were a few issues to do with communication between editors and designing the web site. Now the website is up and running, the hard work has really paid off and general student feedback is excellent. So lets home some sponsorship soon arrives.
