The University Times is a student

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....

 newspaper

Newspaper

A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...

 in Trinity College

Trinity College, Dublin

Trinity College, Dublin , formally known as the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, was founded in 1592 by letters patent from Queen Elizabeth I as the "mother of a university", Extracts from Letters Patent of Elizabeth I, 1592: "...we...found and...

. The newspaper was established in 2009. It is an independent newspaper that is produced with the financial support of Trinity College Dublin, Students’ Union.

Format

The newspaper is a twenty-four page broadsheet

Broadsheet

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 that has six sections: News, Features, Opinion, Arts and Culture, Sport, and Backpage.
The news section concentrates on the news and goings on in the University of Dublin

University of Dublin

The University of Dublin , corporately designated the Chancellor, Doctors and Masters of the University of Dublin , located in Dublin, Ireland, was effectively founded when in 1592 Queen Elizabeth I issued a charter for Trinity College, Dublin, as "the mother of a university" – this date making it...

 and Trinity College Dublin.
The Backpage is a light entertainment page which regularly includes cartoons, crosswords, and light features columns.

Layout and Design

The nameplate

Nameplate (publishing)

In publishing, a nameplate is the title of a newspaper or other periodical in the type style and treatment in which it appears on the front page or cover of the periodical...

 of The University Times is set in Utopia Std with a Semibold Display weight. There is a ligature on the Th in The.
The rest of the paper is set in Utopia Std or Whitney of various weights.
Each page of the paper contains a header

Page header

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 that contains the name of the paper, page number, date, and section indicator. The six sections have their own associated colours that are incorporated into the design.

Style

The University Times operates its own style manual based upon the Oxford Manual of Style. The manual indicates that the full title of the paper is The University Times noting that the, The is part of the title and that it gets a capital letter. Other publications with the definite article

Definite Article

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 do not get a capital for example the Irish Times, the Guardian, and the New York Times.
In the news section people are referred to by their full name at first mention and then only by their second name on subsequent mentions. Honorifics and academic titles are only used when appropriate.

Awards

The University Times was announced 'Newspaper of the Year" in the Irish Student Media Awards, 2010 and 2011.

External links

• The University Times - official website
• Trinity College, Dublin - official website