The Gateway (student newspaper)

The Gateway newspaper was a business and careers online newspaper, formerly print and digital and then exclusively digital, read by students and graduates. It was popular with students at a range of UK universities and had readers around the world. The Gateway produced analysis, career advice and employer insights, as well as profiling paid internship opportunities and graduate jobs.

For the University of Alberta publication, see The Gateway (student magazine).

The Gateway
A typical front page of The Gateway
TypeOnline (formerly print) newspaper during UK university term time
FormatTabloid
Owner(s)Career Gateways Limited
Founded2007
Political alignmentEconomic Liberalism
LanguageEnglish
HeadquartersLondon
 United Kingdom
Circulationc 30,000 and 60,000+ website hits monthly
WebsiteThe Gateway

First published at Oxford University in October 2007, The Gateway was often dubbed "the student FT" due to being printed on the same light salmon paper as the Financial Times. Published by Career Gateways Limited, The Gateway specialised in making the world of business and finance accessible to students pursuing a career in the city.[1]

History

The Gateway was conceived by three Oxford University students, Mawuli Ladzekpo (Exeter College), Max Lewis (Pembroke College) and Chris Wilkinson (Lincoln College) in the summer of 2007. The trio aimed to fill the apparent niche for a publication that combined business and financial news with independent careers advice, and sought to take advantage of the growing graduate recruitment marketing industry that centered around Oxbridge.[2] The first issue of The Gateway was released on 8 October 2007 with a circulation of 6,000 at Oxford University.

In November 2007, The Gateway received commercial backing when the London based boutique recruitment consultancy, OxbridgeGroup, bought a stake in Career Gateways Limited.[3] This injection of capital allowed for an increased distribution of The Gateway to include an additional fourteen universities in the United Kingdom. It also resulted in The Gateway shedding its student workforce recruited by its founders, to be replaced with a team of full-time staff based at The Gateway's headquarters in the London Docklands. The company remained managed, in part, by its student founders.

The Gateway Online newspaper and website were shut down in around 2018/19.

Readership of The Gateway at target universities
Year Readership as a proportion of final year students
2010 6% [4]
2011 10% [5]
2012 16% [6]
2013 18% [7]

Past editors
October 2009: Tom Toulson
October 2008: Will Hodges
October 2007: Mawuli Ladzekpo
Thereafter: Hannah Langworth

Distribution universities
Poster for The Gateway newspaper seen at King's College London in 2008.

The Gateway worked closely in particular with the following fifteen top universities in the United Kingdom, based loosely on the Russell Group.

References
  1. The Gateway company profile, younoodle.com Archived 2013-02-17 at archive.today
  2. The Oxford Student, p.8. 21 February 2008
  3. OxbridgeGroup homepage
  4. The UK Graduate Careers Survey 2010, Volume One: Graduate Recruitment Research. High Fliers Research
  5. The UK Graduate Careers Survey 2011, Volume One: Graduate Recruitment Research, p.113. High Fliers Research
  6. The UK Graduate Careers Survey 2012, Volume One: Graduate Recruitment Research, p.109. High Fliers Research
  7. The UK Graduate Careers Survey 2013, Volume One: Graduate Recruitment Research, p.125. High Fliers Research
  • The Gateway, contains all content published in The Gateway.
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