''Gyro'' is the official publication of its owners the

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(OPSA) at

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. ''Gyro'' is a member of the Aotearoa Student Press Association (ASPA), and was the first polytechnic publication to fully join. ''Gyro'' has been largely replaced with a weekly digital news-letter style publication, ''StudentNews''. Until 2014 ''Gyro'' was printed fortnightly and covered news, features, regular columns, and reviews. Printed copies were available free of charge around the Dunedin North and Central Otago campus areas, and selected sites in

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city. Archive copies are held at Dunedin's

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, which is run by the

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. ''Gyro'' traces its history back to the 1960s photocopied ''SAM'' (''Students' Association Magazine''), and was known as ''Kram'', and ''Student Informer'' during the '70s, ''Informer'' and ''Pinch'' in the '80s, and ''Tech Torque'' during the '90s, until its re-branding as "''gYRo''" in the late 1990s ("''Gyro''" as of 2007). ''Gyro'' was published as a newsprint magazine during the late 1990s and as a glossy magazine in the late 2000s. Since 2011 it was published in a

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format for regular issues, and a glossy for special issues (e.g. Orientation). ''Gyro'' won second "Best Headline" and second "Best Small Publication" at the 2009 ASPA National Awards, second "Best Headline", second "Best Reviewer" and third "Best Columnist" in the 2010 Awards, and first-equal "Best Review", third "Best Original Photography", fourth "Best editorial", and fourth "Best Unpaid News Reporter" in the 2012 awards.

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External links

Otago Polytechnic Students' Association's official site
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