The Other Press is the independent student newspaper of Douglas College, a multi-campus community college in British Columbia.
The Other Press was founded in 1976. Originally formed in reaction to the other school newspaper known as "The Pinion," it is a relatively prominent student newspaper in Canada, having a wide readership on the Canadian University Press (CUP) website. It is also one of British Columbia's oldest student publications. College newspapers are nearly always training vehicles for journalism majors under the supervision of faculty members; The Other Press, however, is highly unusual in the sense that Douglas College has no journalism department and its campus newspaper is produced entirely by students (plus whichever community members choose to become involved). Due to this autonomy, the quality of the writing and editing of the Other Press often varies a great deal.
Since 1978 The Other Press has been formally published through the Other Publications Society, a registered non-profit society whose sole function is to publish the Other Press. The OP is different from many other student newspapers in that the Other Publications Society does not receive student union funding, and is instead funded by a levy taken directly from students by Douglas College. Attempts for the Other Publications Society to create additional projects, such as the Otherthan poetry magazine, have failed.
The Other Press publishes weekly from September to early April (but not during the Christmas break). Summer issues are published once a month from May to August. The Other Press is distributed throughout New Westminster, Coquitlam, and Surrey.