Redbrick (newspaper)

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Redbrick
Type	Weekly term-time student newspaper
Format

Owner	University of Birmingham Guild of Students
Editor-in-Chief	James Ogden
Associate Editor	Stephen Pitchers, Danni Moore
Founded	1936
Headquarters	University of Birmingham Guild of Students
Circulation	20 000

Website: http://www.redbrickonline.co.uk/

Redbrick is the student newspaper of the University of Birmingham. It is produced weekly during term time by the Guild of Students and has a potential readership of more than 20 000 students.

Redbrick is written, photographed, edited and published entirely by students of the University and is run on a non-profit basis, funded by both advertising revenue and the Guild of Students. The newspaper celebrated its 70th birthday and 1300th issue in late 2006.

The new editorial team for 2007-08 include James Ogden as Editor, with Stephen Pitchers and Danni Moore as Deputy Editors.

It is distributed free around the university campus and local area by a group of dedicated students in all weather conditions.

It is closely linked to the other media groups at the Guild of Students - BurnFM.com, Guild Television (GTV) and PhotoSoc.

In the summer term of 1972, just after the Gay Liberation Front annual conference, held in the Guild of Students, Redbrick published a controversial article entitled Who's a Wanker? which described practical aspects of homosexuality, a highly controversial matter in that era. The issue ran out and had to be reprinted. At the same time, it was reported to the Press Council because of that article; the issue was subsequently withdrawn.