Organisation - November 19, 2009
Tilburg's magazine comes top
Tilburg University's weekly Univers has won the 'Golden Gadfly' award. Resource was one of five nominees.
The jury praised Univers for its content: well-written, critical and with broad coverage. They were critical of its format though: it was messy and dull.
Resource was on the shortlist along with the magazines of the Applied Sciences university of The Hague, and the Universities of Amsterdam, Utrecht and Tilburg. The jury only looked at numbers from the first half of 2009, which was before the restyling of Resource.
Jury chair Van Oostrom had this to say about our paper: 'In Wageningen university's Resource the jury was impressed by the variety and the critical involvement. There were some criticisms of the format and the amount of space devoted to announcements from societies. This is the same in other magazines. The magazine could be improved by reconsidering its journalistic approach. What is striking is the large number of English language articles, which underlines the international character of the institution.'