Series consists of publications that students created as a component of their course work. Many of the publications contain stories relating to campus life or Halifax communities. The newspaper publications are tabloid size and printed in black ink (later issues are often in colour, although the use of colouring is used sporadically from the late 1980s and onward). Some of the publications are in magazine format and printed in colour .
Series contains the journalistic publications of the School of Journalism. The publications represent the culmination of various projects by students working toward certain classes, or else are part of honours projects by fourth-year and one-year BJ students. For the most part they are general-interest newspapers and magazines, but there are also topic- and region- or neighbourhood-focused publications, as well as wire and online services.
The newspapers were distributed around campus, at Dalhousie University, and throughout the city (especially in the case of the North End News) in public libraries, bookstores and magazine shops, and elsewhere. Director George Bain remarked in his five-year report of 1984 to the Board of Governors that the Monitor was distributed to news executives across the country (for the most part in order to gamer favourable comments).
NovaNewsNet, a daily email sent to subscribers, was a synopsis of local, regional, national and international headline stories. Unews is a website that contains articles about metro universities.
