Cherwell newspaper is a student newspaper published by and for students of Oxford University. First published in 1920, it has had an electronic version, now called Cherwell24, since 1996. Named after the local river, Cherwell is published by OSPL (Oxford Student Publications Ltd.), who also publish the sister publication ISIS. One of the oldest student publications in the UK, it is editorially independent and has been the launching pad for many well known journalistic careers. The newspaper receives no university funding and is independent of the student union. The current editors are Laura Pitel and Tom Seymour. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Oxford Student Publications Limited Oxford Student Publications Ltd or OSPL, is an independent student publishing house in Oxford that publishes the reknowned Cherwell student newspaper and the award-winning ISIS student magazine. ... Year 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Front page view of student newspaper The Daily Toreador. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Year 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The River Cherwell is a river which flows through the midlands of England. ... Oxford Student Publications Limited Oxford Student Publications Ltd or OSPL, is an independent student publishing house in Oxford that publishes the reknowned Cherwell student newspaper and the award-winning ISIS student magazine. ... Isis is the longest-running independent student magazine in England, established in 1892 at the University of Oxford. ...

History

Cherwell was conceived by two Balliol College students, Cecil Binney and George Edinger, on a ferry from Dover to Ostend during the summer vacation of 1920 while the students were travelling to Vienna to do relief work for the Save the Children charity. Erdinger recalls the early newspaper having a radical voice: "We were feeling for a new Oxford… We were anti-convention, anti-Pre War values, Pro-Feminist. We did not mind shocking and we often did." Full name Balliol College Motto - Named after John de Balliol Previous names - Established 1263 Sister College St Johns College, Cambridge Master Andrew Graham (academic) Location Broad Street Undergraduates 403 Graduates 228 Homepage Boatclub Balliol College, founded in 1263, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford... , Dover is a major channel port in the English county of Kent. ... The esplanade with the Thermae Palace, the former Royal Residence and the casino For other uses, see Ostend (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Vienna (disambiguation). ... Save the Children Logo Save the Children is an international non-profit organization dedicated to working for children. ...

Nonetheless, early editions combine this seriousness with whimsy and parochialism. The first editorial gives the newspaper's purpose as being "to exclude all outside influence and interference from our University. Oxford for the Oxonians".

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Throughout the 1920s Cherwell had a strong literary focus, and a policy of not editing literary contributions. Undergraduate contributors included Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, John Betjeman, L. P. Hartley, Cecil Day-Lewis and W. H. Auden. Evelyn Waugh, as photographed in 1940 by Carl Van Vechten Arthur Evelyn St. ... This article is about the writer. ... A collection of Betjemans poetry, published by John Murray in January 2006 Sir John Betjeman CBE (28 August 1906 – 19 May 1984) was an English poet, writer and broadcaster who described himself in Whos Who as a poet and hack. He was born to a middle-class family... Leslie Poles Hartley (December 30, 1895 - December 13, 1972) was a British writer, known for novels and short stories. ... Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis) CBE (27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972) was a British poet, the British Poet Laureate from 1967 to 1972, and, under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake, a mystery writer. ... Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) IPA: ;[1], who signed his works W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet, regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. ...

The newspaper's literary focus broadened over the coming decades until by 1950 it had become a general-interest newspaper. In 1946 Cherwell was briefly banned by the university for distributing a survey on the sex lives of undergraduates, and in 1954 ran a series of pin-up photographs entitled "Girls of the Year". In 1970 then-editor Peter Stothard published a current Oxford theatre poster featuring a naked female, possibly a first for a British newspaper. Under his editorship Cherwell also published a backless photo of Gully Wells, considered very daring for the time. Both editions caused much comment. In 1973 the paper became a 'cause celebre' in the national papers when the Cherwell published a photo of General Editor David Soskin with a topless model. This resulted in a personal fine by the proctors for David Soskin. Peter Stothard (born February 28, 1951) is a British newspaper editor, currently for the Times Literary Supplement, but of The Times itself from 1992 to 2002, and before that, from 1989 to 1992, of its United States section. ...

In 1964 the newspaper's longest-running feature was born, the John Evelyn gossip column (which has run almost uninterrupted ever since). Over the decades many famous people have been the subject of John Evelyn's wry and faux-condescending style, among them future Pakistani president Benazir Bhutto, politician Jonathan Aitken, and actor Imogen Stubbs. In 1981, Hugh Grant is described as "New College's answer to Brooke Shields", and his unsuccessful attempts to infiltrate a ball with his date are reported. John Evelyn. ... Benazir Bhutto (Urdu: بینظیر بھٹو, IPA: ; Sindhi:بینظیر ڀُٽو ) (born 21 June 1953 in Karachi) is a Pakistani politician who became the first elected woman to lead a post-colonial Muslim state. ... This article is about the former British politician. ... Imogen Stubbs, Lady Nunn (born 20 February 1961) is a British actress. ... Hugh John Mungo Grant (born September 9, 1960) is a Golden Globe-winning British actor and film producer. ... Brooke Christa Camille Shields[1] (born May 31, 1965) is an American actress and supermodel. ...

In the mid-1970s Cherwell survived one of its periodic financial crises, and politically the paper campaigned against Oxford University's investments in apartheid-era South Africa. A segregated beach in South Africa, 1982. ...

Organisation

Cherwell staff are Oxford students who run the paper while studying for their degrees. Editors and deputy editors are elected termly by the Board of Directors, also largely made up of former editors and business staff. The editors determine the rest of their team, usually consisting of a news editor, features editor, arts editor and sports editor, and their respective deputies. All positions may be held jointly, more commonly in the junior positions. Section editors hold their own section meetings, at which any student may participate. Guest contributors are commonly employed, often Oxford-educated national figures.

Scoops

The engagement of Charles, Prince of Wales to Diana Spencer was announced in a Cherwell world exclusive, after the news leaked to the paper through a connection working in the British royal household. News that Chelsea Clinton planned to study for a masters degree at Oxford was also first published in Cherwell. “Prince Charles” redirects here. ... Lady Diana Spencer is a name shared by several members of the Spencer family, an aristocratic English family related to the Churchills of Blenheim Palace. ... Chelsea Victoria Clinton (born February 27, 1980) is the daughter and only child of former US President Bill Clinton and United States Senator Hillary Clinton. ...

Politics

Cherwell has no party political line or stated political sympathy. A broad range of views are expressed, and the centre of gravity tends to change frequently, owing to the rapid turnover of staff.

Cherwell and the English language

The Oxford English Dictionary lists the terms 'sherry party' and 'Marxism' (as pertaining to the Marx Brothers) as having been coined in Cherwell. Additions from recent decades are lacking probably because Cherwell is only sporadically lodged at copyright libraries, and because it is not included in electronic text search systems such as Lexis-Nexis. The Oxford English Dictionary print set The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is a dictionary published by the Oxford University Press (OUP), and is the most successful dictionary of the English language, (not to be confused with the one-volume Oxford Dictionary of English, formerly New Oxford Dictionary of English, of... This article is about the comedian siblings. ... LexisNexis is a popular searchable archive of content from newspapers, magazines, legal documents and other printed sources. ...

Well-known Cherwell contributors

An editorial alludes to the many former contributors who go on to work in Fleet Street

• Evelyn Waugh
• Graham Greene
• John Betjeman
• L. P. Hartley
• Cecil Day-Lewis
• W. H. Auden
• Michael Crick (currently a BBC Newsnight reporter, author)
• Sir Howard Davies (currently director: London School of Economics)
• Evan Davis (currently BBC Economics Editor)
• David English (editor Daily Mail 1971-1992)
• Lord Heseltine (advertising)
• Rupert Murdoch (advertising)
• Peter Preston (currently of the Guardian)
• Peter Stothard editor 1970 (currently of the Times Literary Supplement)
• Simon Jenkins Union correspondent 1962 (former editor of The Times)
• Peter Sissons Sports editor, 1963 (BBC news presenter)

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Recent Cherwell editors

Michaelmas Term 2007: Sophie Manning and Peter Wright

Trinity Term 2007: Willa Brown and James Rogers

Hilary Term 2007: Ian Duncan and Catherine Rutter

Michaelmas Term 2006: Paul Hinds and Alex Stewart

Trinity Term 2006: Emily Gosden and Kate Tolley

Hilary Term 2006: Andrew Dagnell and Jonathan Theodore

Michaelmas Term 2005: Luke Alexander and George Davies

Trinity Term 2005: Venetia Ansell and Daniel Bennett

Hilary Term 2005: Ben Coffer and Jack Fanning

Michaelmas Term 2004: Robert Crowe

Trinity Term 2004: Elaina Evans and Aled George

Hilary Term 2004: Rowena Mason

Michaelmas Term 2003: Hannah Charlick

Trinity Term 2003: Waleed Ghani

Hilary Term 2003: Josh Goodman

Michaelmas Term 2002: Nicholas Randall and James Kettle

Trinity Term 2002: Niall Stewart (resigned) and Andrew Sutton

Hilary Term 2002: Marcus Edwards and Meera Sabaratnam

Michaelmas Term 2001: Jon Boone

Trinity Term 2001: Andrew Morris and William Shuckbrugh

Hilary Term 2001: Charlie Talbot

Michaelmas 2000: David McNeill and Jenny Finch

Trinity Term 2000: Andrew Alexander

Hilary Term 2000: Richard Colebourn and Michelle Teo

Michaelmas Term 1999: Matt Brindley and Chris Tryhorn

Trinity Term 1999: Tim Robey

Hilary Term 1999: Rachel Williams

Michaelmas Term 1998: Hadley Freeman

Trinity Term 1998: Louise Knowles and Alex von Tunzelmann

Hilary Term 1998: Ross Hawkins

Michaelmas Term 1997: Rishi Dastidar

Trinity Term 1997: Lindsey Harrad

Hilary Term 1997: Becky Lloyd

Michaelmas Term 1996: Chris Philp and Justin Huggler

Trinity Term 1996: Jat Gill and David Black

Hilary Term 1996: Lucie Whitehouse and Jeffrey Gettleman

Michaelmas Term 1995: Emma Brockes, Nick Mountfield and Conal Walsh

Trinity Term 1995: Dermot Canterbury and Paul J Taylor

Hilary Term 1995: Lucy Manning, Dov Waxman and James Tozer

Michaelmas Term 1994: Nadia Hall, Ilsa Godlovitch and James Erskine

Trinity Term 1994: Michael Peel and Ben Cohen

Hilary Term 1994: Nick Gibbons, Tom Penn, Chris Taylor

Michaelmas Term 1993: Oliver August, Niels Bryan Low, James Carter

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Cherwell 24

Cherwell has had a website since Trinity 1996, when Cherwell Online was launched by Thor Mitchell under Cherwell editors Jat Gill and David Black. Now called Cherwell 24, the site is updated every day during term. The site contains all of the articles from the print edition, as well as extra news, features, arts reviews and sport reports. Recent additions to the site include an online-only science section, video footage and news and sport podcasts that can be downloaded for free. Since 2007 it has also had its own sections and section editors, as well as contributor bases independent of the print edition. Students use the website to vote on the paper's regular feature, Fit College, vote on polls and post comments on articles. The current editors are Fiona Wilson and Leah Klement.

Recent Cherwell 24 editors

Trinity 2007: Emma Bullimore

Hilary 2007: Larry Smith

Michaelmas 2006: Ali Gibson

Trinity 2006: Elle Perry

Hilary 2006: Alex Laffan

Sources

• Cherwell 75 Years, anniversary edition of Cherwell, November 1995

External links

• Cherwell24, the paper's electronic edition, updated every day during term time
• Isis Online, the sister publication
• Oxford Student Publications Ltd