Please welcome our new board of directors, elected during plenary at NASH82 Jacob Dubé (The Eyeopener) - President Sarah Krichel (The Eyeopener) - Vice President Emma McPhee (The Brunswickan) - Treasurer Caitlin Dutt (The Aquinian) - Communications Officer Scott Jacobsen (The Peak) - Director of Funding Director of Operations (Vacant) Kurtis Rideout (The Cord) - [...]
“This report is about deliberate race, identity and gender-based genocide.” - Marion Buller, Chief Commissioner, National Inquiry into MMIWG. So began the Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. With it began a slew of responses from media outlets across Canada, the majority of which criticized the report [...]
All submissions were blinded and judged by a panel of judges external to the Canadian University Press and the Gauntlet. Winners appear in bold typeface. Arts & Culture Writing Award: Students say the film program’s script exchange policy mishandles racialized narratives and representation by Emma Buchanan, The Eyeopener What do the Power Rangers, Superman and ancient humans have [...]
November 19, 2018 National Campus and Community Radio Association/l’Association nationale des radios étudiantes et communautaires (“NCRA/ANREC”) and Canadian University Press (“CUP”) are thrilled to announce a six month pilot plan to further sharing of news and information between the radio and journalism sector using CUP’s CUPWire on the Thoughtblox platform. The goal of the project [...]
June 26, 2018 The National NewsMedia Council of Canada (NNC) and the Canadian University Press (CUP) announced today a partnership that will enable CUP member publications to access the NNC’s suite of training and support services. (Original blogpost: http://mediacouncil.ca/national-newsmedia-council-and-canadian-university-press-announce-new-partnership/) “This partnership is a clear statement that the future of journalism in Canada is collaborative,” says John [...]
Attention CUPpies, CUP is hiring regional representatives! The 2018-19 year is quickly shaping up, and the new Board of Directors is hard at work getting things set up for another exciting year advocating on behalf of student publications across Canada. This year's board has been excited to get things started, but we are still seeking [...]
Would you like to do some great labour reporting? Would you like get paid for said reporting? Of course you would! Thanks to a partnership with the CWA, we’re excited to be launching a new Labour Reporting on Campus project for the 2018 winter academic term! This will give students at CUP member papers a [...]
Were you unable to attend plenary this year? It was an exciting year with lots of big decisions - here's what you missed: There will now be two representatives from each region on the CUP board. To address the workload of regional reps and to increase collaboration, CUP members opted to increase the number of [...]
We’re delighted to announce that 12 student publications have joined or re-joined the Canadian University Press so far this year! At NASH79, CUP significantly reduced fees and the uptick in membership is a promising sign that our membership benefits are resonating with student publications. The following publications have rejoined CUP this year: The Cadre (University [...]
Reduced fees, NASH80, JHMs, events, services and relaunch of the Wire This year, the Canadian University Press (CUP) has dramatically reduced membership fees in a move to rebuild membership and turn a new chapter in the organization’s 80-year history. For 2017-18, CUP fees will be calculated as 1.2% of publications’ budgets, capped at $190. This [...]
