''The Gauntlet'' is a campus publication published by the Gauntlet Publications Society at the

University of Calgary The University of Calgary (U of C or UCalgary) is a public research university located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The University of Calgary started in 1944 as the Calgary branch of the University of Alberta, founded in 1908, prior to being ins ...

. Though commonly referred to as the "University of Calgary's newspaper", it is independent from the University administration and from the Student Union. It has a circulation of 4,000 as well as approximately 50,000 monthly online hits. In 2017, it transitioned from a weekly newspaper to a monthly

magazine A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combinatio ...

, but returned to the

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format (biweekly) in 2019.

Notable former contributors

Susanne Craig Susanne Craig is a Canadian investigative journalist who works at ''The New York Times''. She was the reporter who was anonymously mailed Donald Trump's 1995 tax returns during the 2016 presidential election. In 2018, she was an author of ''The ...

Zsuzsi Gartner Zsuzsi Gartner is a Canadian author and journalist. Biography Gartner was born in Winnipeg and moved to Calgary in early childhood. She earned a BA in political science at the University of Calgary, later receiving an honours degree in journali ...

John Edward Macfarlane John Edward Macfarlane (born March 28, 1942) was the editor of the Canadian magazine ''The Walrus'' from 2008 to 2014. He previously served as editor of ''Toronto Life'' from 1992 to 2007. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he attended the University of ...

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Notable former contributors

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