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| Media Type: | Newspaper |
| Launched: | 1987 |
| Formerly Called: | York Student Vision |
| Website: | http://vision.york.ac.uk/ |
| University: | University of York |
| Other University Media: | TV - YSTV Radio - URY Newspaper - Nouse Website - The Yorker |
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York Vision (known in previous lives as yorkVision and York Student Vision) is one of two student newspapers at the University of York. It is distinguished from its campus rival, nouse, by its tabloid design and anarchic sense of humour. It currently holds the title of Guardian Student Newspaper of the Year, one of many awards the publication has accumulated over the years.
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Unlike many other university newspapers, which have sabbatical editors, Vision's staff is comprised entirely of current students.
The newspaper currently has two editors, Mike Regan and Joe Burnham, and two deputies, Emily Hodges and Andy McGrath. The newspaper itself contains several sections, with comment, features and lifestyle bookended by news and sport.
The recently departed 2006-7 editorial team, led by Adam Thorn and Lucy Taylor, won the coveted Student Newspaper of the Year title at the 2007 Guardian Media Awards. Lucy Taylor also won Best Reporter, whilst Richard Webb won Best Critic for his work on the TV section.
Vision has a number of features that help mould its distinct character. These include:
Vision was the first newspaper in the country to launch a Facebook application, featuring articles and scoops from York campus on the phenomenally popular Facebook platform. Users can keep up-to-date with the latest gossip on campus, with news updates published on profiles and in news feeds. The application also features a podcast produced in collaboration with the university's student radio station URY, providing a run down of the week's top headlines and big name interviews. The application was developed by Matt Kirman and former editor Iain Withers.
Vision has broken some of the biggest scoops in student journalism over the last ten years. Some of the most notable include a national exclusive exposing how the NUS lost £1m of student money, how a lecturer was convicted for child porn offenses and how a radioactive chemical from the biology department ended up dumped in a scrapyard.
Former Vision editors and writers have gone on to work for a wide range of media outlets, including Reuters News Agency and the BBC, or as freelance contributors to various major newspapers. Many are now in staff positions in both the national and local press.
Ste Curran has become one of Britain's most notable games journalists and currently presents One Life Left, a videogame show on Resonance FM. Curran contributed a series of articles to Edge as RedEye, praised as an 'unmissable example of New Games Journalism' by Guardian Unlimited1.
Sabey has gone on to become one of the country's most successful tabloid journalists, winning Young Journalist of the Year at the 2004 British Press Awards. His biggest scoops include:
Vision has received an enviable clutch of awards for its writing, design, and in both overall best publication and best small budget categories (due to the lack of sabbatical positions of the paper).
In particular, Vision has received critical acclaim from a number of top journalists, including former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan, former BBC Director General Greg Dyke, Channel Four news anchor Jon Snow and Loaded founder James Brown.
York Vision is the current Guardian Student Newspaper of the Year. The paper has won the award four times in the past six years, having held the award from 2002-2004. Vision remains the only paper to achieve the remarkable hat-trick in the ceremony's 26-year history.
In 2006, Vision was named NUS Small-Budget Publication of the Year at the National Student Journalism Awards; with no event held in 2007, it effectively remains the holder of the top prize.
Vision have produced a number of memorable front pages. These include:
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