Media
LUU boasts one of the country's most active university newspapers, Leeds Student. It is published weekly, on Fridays, during term time. Leeds Student was formed by the merger of the Leeds University Union newspaper (Union News) and the Leeds Metropolitan University Students Union newspaper, but in November 2005 the Leeds Met students voted to disaffiliate from Leeds Student citing under-representation as the reason. It is currently edited by Laura Mackenzie.
The GIST has currently been relaunched as a mini magazine intended to keep members informed by highlighting and featuring events taking place in the union. Old paper based publications include The Document and the Lippy magazine, which was the Union's Women's Magazine run by students.
LUU has a student radio station, LSRfm.com (or visit LSRfm.com), which currently holds the award for Best Student Station in the UK. LSRfm.com is widely active in LUU and often provides live DJs for union events, such as every Thursday in the Terrace and every Friday in Old Bar. Between the 22nd February and the 22nd March 2010, LSRfm.com broadcast on FM Frequency (87.7 FM) for the first time in four years. Throughout the rest of the year it retains LSRfm.com as its website and streams audio regularly through this, as well as offering free podcasts. LSRfm.com has been extremely successful at the national Student Radio Awards in the past, this year winning Bronze and Silver for Best Journalistic, Bronze for Best Male Presenter, Silver for Best Scripted Programming, Gold for Best Student Radio Chart Show and Gold in the prestigious Best Station categories. In 2010, LSRfm.com's religious and spiritual show Faith In The City received national acclaim at the Christian Broadcast Council awards, receiving a 'CBC Loves' award for Best Christian Speech Radio Program. The LSRfm.com coordinator is not an elected position but is appointed through an interview process, with the successful candidate this year being James Palmer. LSRfm.com has a dedicated committee of around 20 members, and is one of the largest student stations in the country, boasting over 300 members.
There is also an internal TV station, lstv, which broadcasts online and on televisions located around the Union building including in the Terrace, the Old Bar and in Game On. LSTV broadcast live every Wednesday during term-time from their studio within the building itself. LSTV have been successful in winning awards through the student TV association NaSTA winning 9 awards in 2010 including best broadcaster.
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