The Queen's Journal, or simply The Journal, is the main student-run newspaper

Student newspaper

A student newspaper is a newspaper run by students of a university, high school, middle school, or other school. These papers traditionally cover local and, primarily, school or university news....

 at Queen's University

Queen's University

Queen's University, , is a public research university located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Founded on 16 October 1841, the university pre-dates the founding of Canada by 26 years. Queen's holds more more than of land throughout Ontario as well as Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, England...

 in Kingston

Kingston, Ontario

Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located in Eastern Ontario where the St. Lawrence River flows out of Lake Ontario. Originally a First Nations settlement called "Katarowki," , growing European exploration in the 17th Century made it an important trading post...

, Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

. It was established in 1873, making it one of the oldest student newspapers in Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. It is as old as the Harvard Crimson

The Harvard Crimson

The Harvard Crimson, the daily student newspaper of Harvard University, was founded in 1873. It is the only daily newspaper in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is run entirely by Harvard College undergraduates...

, the oldest continuously published student newspaper in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. The Journal is published twice a week, usually on Tuesdays and Fridays. The 2011-2012 editors-in-chief are Clare Clancy and Jake Edmiston

The paper maintains a friendly rivalry with the humour paper on campus, Golden Words

Golden Words

Golden Words is a weekly humour publication produced by students at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Currently, it is self-styled as the only humour weekly in Canada....

. This is best exemplified by the annual publication of a fake edition of The Journal, containing outlandish stories, by Golden Words.

The publication is an editorially autonomous paper, guaranteed by the Alma Mater Society, its Constitution, and its Corporate By-laws.http://www.queensjournal.ca/policy/

Alumni

Journal alumni can often be found working for many of North America's major newspapers and media outlets. Notable names include Adam Shortt

Adam Shortt

Adam Shortt, C.M.G. was an economic historian in Ontario. He was the first full-time employed academic in the field at a Canadian university — Queen's....

, Charlotte Whitton

Charlotte Whitton

Charlotte Elizabeth Whitton, OC, CBE was a Canadian feminist and mayor of Ottawa. She was the first female mayor of a major city in Canada, serving from 1951 to 1956 and again from 1960 to 1964...

, ABC News correspondent Jeffrey Kofman

Jeffrey Kofman

Jeffrey Charles Kofman is an ABC News correspondent covering Florida, the Caribbean and Latin America. Since joining ABC News in January 2001, Kofman has traveled extensively to report on developing stories and political events in Florida and the Southeast...

, Robertson Davies

Robertson Davies

William Robertson Davies, CC, OOnt, FRSC, FRSL was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best-known and most popular authors, and one of its most distinguished "men of letters", a term Davies is variously said to have gladly accepted for himself...

, CNN's Ali Velshi

Ali Velshi

Ali Velshi is a Canadian-American television journalist best known for his work on CNN. He is CNN's Chief Business Correspondent, Anchor of CNN's Wake Up Call and a co-host of CNN's weekday morning show American Morning.-Personal life:...

, former Toronto Star

Toronto Star

The Toronto Star is Canada's highest-circulation newspaper, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its print edition is distributed almost entirely within the province of Ontario...

 editor-in-chief Giles Gherson

Giles Gherson

Giles Gherson is Deputy Minister and Associate Secretary of the Cabinet, Policy and Delivery, in the Cabinet Office for the Ontario government. Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty announced Mr. Gherson's appointment, effective April 2, 2007, on March 8, 2007. Mr. Gherson was formerly editor-in-chief ...

, Ottawa Citizen

Ottawa Citizen

The Ottawa Citizen is an English-language daily newspaper owned by Postmedia Network in Ottawa, Canada. According to the Canadian Newspaper Association, the paper had a 2008 weekly circulation of 900,197.- History :...

 editor-in-chief Scott Anderson and The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail is a nationally distributed Canadian newspaper, based in Toronto and printed in six cities across the country. With a weekly readership of approximately 1 million, it is Canada's largest-circulation national newspaper and second-largest daily newspaper after the Toronto Star...

s editor-in-chief John Stackhouse

John Stackhouse (Globe and Mail)

John Stackhouse is a Canadian journalist and author. He was the editor of the Globe and Mail's Report on Business section and, on May 25, 2009, he was promoted to editor-in-chief of the newspaper....

.