Sheffield Steel Press is the former name of the University of Sheffield's student newspaper. It was rebranded in 2008 to Forge Press. Published fortnightly during term-time by a team of up to 100 student volunteers, the paper has a circulation of 5,000 and is distributed free across campus and the surrounding student area to a projected readership of 15,000–20,000.
The University of Sheffield has a history of student journalism that predates its ...
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Sheffield Steel Press is the former name of the University of Sheffield's student newspaper. It was rebranded in 2008 to Forge Press. Published fortnightly during term-time by a team of up to 100 student volunteers, the paper has a circulation of 5,000 and is distributed free across campus and the surrounding student area to a projected readership of 15,000–20,000.
The University of Sheffield has a history of student journalism that predates its inception as a university when it received its charter in 1905.
Following World War II, a new newspaper was set up at the University called Darts, The name stemmed from a sister arts publication, Arrows, which had been around since the 1930s, with the new venture was seen as a smaller entity than its sibling - a dart being a sort of miniature arrow. (The paper was ultimately to outlive its brethren, which closed in the late 1980s.)
In the 1997/98 academic year a new editorial team took charge of Darts and decided to change the name.
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