Nouse

Nouse is a student newspaper and website at the University of York. Founded in 1964 by student Nigel Fountain, some twenty years before its rival York Vision. Nouse is printed three times a term and has an estimated readership of 10,000 with frequent website updates in between print runs.

It has changed dramatically in outlook and presentation over the years, being known at one point as the Nouse Co-operative or NouseCoop, and presenting itself as a samizdat publication throughout the 1980s. In its current incarnation, Nouse is a left-of-centre paper. The last edition of the 2006-07 academic year was printed in full-size broadsheet format.

The name comes from the Greek word Nous and the local river Ouse and is pronounced "Nooze", sounding phonetically similar to the word News. Rival paper York Vision often claim that the name is actually a contraction of words No Use, and often style it as such in their paper when referring to Nouse.

In last few years Nouse has become one of the University's largest media societies, picking up multiple nominations and wins in the National Student Journalism Awards and Guardian Student Media Awards.

The Borthwick Institute at the University of York Library has an archive of Nouse editions that stretches back to the first edition 1964.

Current Information

Nouse is currently edited by Henry James Foy. The main section, Nouse, contains a news section, a politics section with a 'global focus' world briefing-style page, a comment and opinions section, and sports. The Arts and Features supplement, Muse, runs a varied spread of features, articles, columns and satire pages and is currently edited by Liam O'Brien. The website, currently edited by Lida Mirzaii, holds an archive of the printed pieces from 2005, as well as publishing content such as breaking news, sports results, live coverage of campus events and other features not in the print edition.. Technical Director Chris Northwood has led Nouse's push into new media, and is currently re-designing its award-winning website.

Awards

2005 saw the paper claim the top prize of Best Student Newspaper category at the NUS/Mirror National Student Journalism Awards, and runner-up at the Guardian Student Newspaper Awards. It was also the only newspaper to be nominated in the design category for the NUS/Mirror awards. In 2006 Nouse was nominated for Best Student Newspaper at the Guardian Student Media Awards and the National Student Journalism Awards, as well as another Guardian nomination for Best Publication Design. Toby Green was nominated for Best Features Writer at the NUS Awards. Nouse's success continued in 2007, with former editor Heidi Blake named Guardian Student Journalist of the Year, Best Features Writer and Best Diversity Writer. The Nouse website, Nouse.co.uk came runner up in the Best Website category. In 2008, Nouse came runner-up in the Best Student Newspaper and Best Student Website categories, with Muse editor Nicky Woolf taking home the Best Features Writer award at the Guardian Student Media Awards.

The Future

In common with many newspapers, Nouse is expanding into the field of new media by collaborating with other York media societies, such as a podcast with student radio station URY and video news and sports reports with student television station YSTV.

Famous Contributors

Greg Dyke wrote a column for the paper in the early 1970s, 'Gryke'. The late Labour MP Tony Banks and the author Anthony Horowitz also wrote for the paper early in its history.

External links

• Nouse website