New TCDSU website, new TCDSU paper (The Record is dead!)

Awayindahils

*nudge nudge*

This went rather off topic...so you know stay on topic.

I don't thik the Record had any brand in particular, but a rebranding of the paper, or renaming as it has rebranded twice in the last three years (size of the paper) may be used to compensate for a lack of content, or it might be an attempt to move away from the Record debate of last year.

shay_562

D&#243 wrote: »

Accounts are (were?) meant to be published or at least given to Council each year. I note though that UCDSU have their budgets for the last few years on their website. Perhaps nudge the SU sabbats towards this, since they have a new-fangled website?

Went looking for old council minutes and all I could find was this. Methinks they may need to do a little bit of updating.

Mark200 wrote:

I'm fairly confident the majority of people who wanted to write for the newspaper had some sort of interest in journalism. Just because they aren't doing a journalism/arts course doesn't mean they have no interest.

No, but the fact that they aren't writing for Trinity News suggests quite strongly that they have no interest in journalism. I'm no fan of TN (I think it's a bit of a rag), but it's unquestionably the better of the college papers and has won quite a few Smedias over the past few years. If you're writing for a college paper because you're interested in journalism, 99% of the time you're writing for TN. (Unless, of course, they've rejected you because you're crap. Then you might be interested in journalism and writing for the SU paper.)

Oh, and in a vague effort to stay completely 100% on-topic, maybe they changed the name because they wanted one that didn't convert so easily into "Retard"?

Mark200

shay_562 wrote: »

No, but the fact that they aren't writing for Trinity News suggests quite strongly that they have no interest in journalism. I'm no fan of TN (I think it's a bit of a rag), but it's unquestionably the better of the college papers and has won quite a few Smedias over the past few years. If you're writing for a college paper because you're interested in journalism, 99% of the time you're writing for TN. (Unless, of course, they've rejected you because you're crap. Then you might be interested in journalism and writing for the SU paper.)

Oh, and in a vague effort to stay completely 100% on-topic, maybe they changed the name because they wanted one that didn't convert so easily into "Retard"?

Well to be fair when first years come in during Freshers' week, they don't know which newspaper is better. They just walk around front square and are approached by two newspapers asking if they would like to write for them. There's no doubt that Trinity News was by far the better paper though.

To stay on topic.... maybe they just got it wrong, and thought TN was always called University Times. Someone should let them know.

johnl

Does anyone know how much it costs it to take out an ad in either of the Trinity papers?

Oh, sorry, hope this isn't straying too far off-topic.