The Queen's Journal

The Queen's Journal is the main student-run newspaper at Queen's University at Kingston in Kingston, Ontario. The paper was founded in 1873 and has been continually publishing ever since.^[1][2][3] It is as old as The Harvard Crimson, the oldest continuously published student newspaper in the United States.^[4] The Journal is published twice a week, usually on Tuesdays and Fridays. The 2021-22 Editors in Chief are Aysha Tabassum and Shelby Talbot.^[5][6] The publication is an editorially autonomous paper, guaranteed by the Alma Mater Society of Queen's University and its constitution and by-laws.^[7][8]

The Queen's Journal

Type	Bi-weekly student newspaper
Format	Compact
Publisher	Alma Mater Society of Queen's University
Editor-in-chief	Ben Wrixon and Julia Harmsworth
Founded	1873
Headquarters	190 University Ave., Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Circulation	3,000
Website	www.queensjournal.ca

The paper maintains a friendly rivalry with the campus' humour paper Golden Words. This is best exemplified by the annual publication, by Golden Words, of a fake edition of The Journal containing outlandish stories, published roughly around April Fool’s Day — although the exact date varies and the special edition is not marked in any way.

Journal alumni can often be found working for many of North America's major newspapers and media outlets. Notable names include Adam Shortt; former Ottawa mayor Charlotte Whitton; former Toronto Star editor-in-chief Giles Gherson; former Ottawa Citizen editor-in-chief Scott Anderson; former editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail, John Stackhouse; former Toronto Star managing editor Jane Davenport; author, academic, and former Toronto Star columnist James Laxer; novelist Robertson Davies; Al Jazeera's Ali Velshi; Toronto Star reporters Kristin Rushowy and Victoria Gibson; former ABC News correspondent Jeffrey Kofman; and Jeffrey Simpson, author and former political columnist for The Globe and Mail.

See also

• CFRC-FM
• List of newspapers in Canada
• List of student newspapers in Canada

References

1. "About Us". The Queen's Journal. Kingston, Ontario: Alma Mater Society of Queen's University. Retrieved 14 April 2012.
2. "Why Doug Ford's attack on student press is an attack on journalism as a whole | The Star". thestar.com. 16 October 2019. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
3. "The Queen's Journal". qspace.library.queensu.ca. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
4. "About | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
5. "Masthead: Volume 145". The Queen's Journal. Kingston, Ontario: Alma Mater Society of Queen's University. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
6. "Ontario's Student Choice Initiative: The Queen's Journal on its Impact – CFRC Podcast Network". 13 May 2019. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
7. "Queen's Journal Policy". The Queen's Journal. Kingston, Ontario: Alma Mater Society of Queen's University. Retrieved 14 April 2012.
8. Shennawy, Leila El (12 October 2017). "The Varsity looks into independence of student papers across Canada | The Charlatan, Carleton's independent newspaper". Retrieved 2020-02-24.

External links

• Official website  
• Queen's Journal print archives from 1873–2000