Editing University of New South Wales (section)

==== ''Blitz'' ====
''Blitz'' is a student publication, published online by Arc @ UNSW, based at the University of New South Wales.<ref>{{cite web|work=UNSW A - Z Guide |publisher=UNSW |url=https://my.unsw.edu.au/student/atoz/Blitz.html |title=Blitz entry |access-date=31 August 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070829005234/https://my.unsw.edu.au/student/atoz/Blitz.html |archive-date=29 August 2007}}</ref> ''Blitz'' under this name first appeared in session 2, 1988, but a similar "what's on" style publication had been issued by the then [[Source (UNSW)|University Union]] since the early 1970s. Initially it consisted of a simple sheet or two of paper, but it evolved into a magazine style format in session two 1994<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.recordkeeping.unsw.edu.au/historicalresources/onlineexhibitions/unitimelineexhibition/1970s.html#1970 |title=University Timeline Exhibition: 1970s |work=Records and Archives Office |publisher=UNSW Archives |date=1 October 2013 |access-date=25 November 2013 |archive-date=2 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202234022/http://www.recordkeeping.unsw.edu.au/historicalresources/onlineexhibitions/unitimelineexhibition/1970s.html#1970 |url-status=live }}</ref> when a former editor from another student publication on campus, ''[[Tharunka]]'', was hired to found a weekly "what's on" magazine. ''Blitz'' sometimes pays casual contributors for submitted articles and photographs, and employs a student online editor, a student designer, a student TV producer and a student radio producer.

''Blitz'' typically covers the goings-on around campus and conducts interviews and publishes stories relating to current student activities. It widely publicises Arc services and activities on campus. Due to its non-partisan policy, it does not cover political issues, with the exception of [[voluntary student unionism]]. However, in 2004 an edition of ''Blitz'' was withdrawn by the student union because it contained a guide to rolling a [[Joint (cannabis)|joint]]. The editor Janet Duncan claimed there had been censorship of her editorial in the following issue.<ref>{{cite news |title=Student papers feel weight of censorship |newspaper=[[The Australian]] |date=16 November 2005 }}</ref> Arc @ UNSW announced that the organisation would continue to publish the magazine after the introduction of voluntary student unionism in 2007.<ref>{{cite news |title=What is VSU? |newspaper=B&T Magazine |date=17 November 2006 }}</ref>