An old-fashioned ‘newspaper war’
By Evie Glen
For almost a century the Glasgow Guardian has held court under various names as the student newspaper of record amid the leafy West End surrounds of the University of Glasgow. Winner of multiple awards and once edited by Donald Dewar, the paper is an institution which started the careers of many of Glasgow’s most successful journalists.
But in October last year, a new pretender emerged to rival the Guardian, started by two former staffers who claim there is “a freedom of speech crisis in higher education”. Just six months later the Hillhead Review was named The Herald’s student newspaper of the year and was the subject of a glowing write-up by one of Glasgow’s most esteemed journalists, Kevin McKenna, pictured right. His interview with the paper’s co-founders, Odhran Gallagher and Katherine McKay, praises their igniting of an old-fashioned “newspaper war”’ with the venerable Glasgow Guardian.
The whole story can be found on The Bell website today …