Wessex Scene
 |
|
| Type | Student Online Newspaper and Published Magazine |
|---|---|
| Format | Compact |
| Owner(s) | University of Southampton Students' Union |
| Editor | Alice Hearing |
| Deputy editor | Nuala McBride |
| Founded | 1936 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Wessex Scene, University of Southampton Students' Union, Building 42, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ |
| City | Southampton |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Circulation | 100,000 Unique Monthly Visitors |
| Sister newspapers | The Edge |
| Website | www.wessexscene.co.uk |
 |
|
| Editor | Anneka Honeyball |
|---|---|
| Deputy | Ashleigh Millman |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Publisher | University of Southampton Students' Union |
| Year founded | 1995 / 2011 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Based in | University of Southampton |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
The Wessex Scene (formerly Wessex News, prior 1996) is the oldest, leading, and most-read student news provider at the University of Southampton, and has been in print since 1936, making it one of the oldest and most prestigious student publications in the United Kingdom.
Wessex Scene has evolved over the years and now takes the forms of an online news site and a monthly printed magazine, published by the University of Southampton Students' Union and available across the campuses and Halls of Residence of the university. The website and online edition were nominated for best website at the Guardian Student Media Awards for three years in a row before finally winning the award in 2004. Since its establishment in 2013, Wessex Scene has been nominated for dozens of Student Publication Association awards, and was highly commended for 'Best Designed magazine' in 2015. The team at the magazine have also won a number of individual nationally recognised awards. In 2014 a piece by Bridie Pearson-Jones, then politics editor, was selected as one of the Huffington Post Student Journalist Stories of the Year, and in 2015 Toby Leveson was awarded 'New Deal Student Journalist of the Year' by The Independent and National Union of Students for his coverage of the 2015 General Election.
The Wessex Scene initially launched as Wessex News on 25 February 1936 and was published by students Union of the, then, University College. The Union had at this time just been granted a section of the main University building following new construction work and as a result had begun to expand in operations. From this foundation the paper was printed regularly in newspaper format with relatively few changes. The name changed to the current Wessex Scene in 1996 to reflect on the other content that was being fed into the paper and the publication launched online in the 2001 academic year.
The publication's ownership by the Students' Union has resulted in conflict at times between the student writers and editors of the publication, and the officers at the Union who are also Editors-in-chief but who have a minimal role. This has led to claims of censorship and that the Union blocked stories that they believed did not fit with the values of the Union. Subsequently a Code of Conduct was written for the writers of the publication to adhere to.
...
Wikipedia