The Sanctuary Newspaper, Birmingham
No, nothing to do with the Digbeth music venue, Sanctuary Newspapers claim to be “the UK’s leading student newspaper network”. Monthly editions are produced by students in 12 different cities with the content tailored to their areas. A new Birmingham edition has just been launched with a website that looks thusly:
I’ve not found an actual, physical copy yet but I thought the content on the website was a bit hit and miss – head for music and film but give news (woefully sub-Onion) a miss.
What struck me is that, although it’s written by people in Birmingham there’s precious little about Birmingham. Aside from a couple of questions put to The Electric’s Thomas Lawes and an interview with the promoter of student night ‘Naked Lunch‘ there’s not much to differentiate the paper from something that could be produced nationally.
Still, it’s early days. There’s a Facebook group here that says:
If you are interested in contributing to the next one let me know via facebook or email to Sanctuaryplaylist@live.co.uk
Presumably you need to be at Birmingham Uni but I’m not certain about that.
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The Sanctuary is an horrndous publicaion. Friends at Warwick, Bristol and Durham have woeful tales to tell concerning awful stories, leadership and a distastful owner – Tom Freeman. A case of ‘reader beware’.
For a good blog, this post really lets the side down. How can you screen a ‘review’ of something which you admit that you haven’t read yet? Me and my friends rather like the paper. It certainly makes us laugh. Recent editions have been very good indeed.
Mikey – I was commenting on the content of the website, as the first line of para 2 makes pretty clear.