The Runner

The Runner is the independent student newspaper of Kwantlen Polytechnic University's 17,500-plus students, faculty and staff across Surrey, Richmond, Langley, Delta, and White Rock. It publishes 18 issues each year on both weekly and bi-weekly schedules between September and April. Summer issues are published monthly during May through August. The Runner withdrew as a member of the Canadian University Press in 2013. Background The Runner first published in early 2009 after a successful February 2008 Kwantlen Student Association referendum for "a freely distributed, year-round, multi-campus, student-owned, student-run news and campus culture publication", which approved a $0.75 per credit levy that is refundable to students who may "opt out". Other funds supplement The Runner through advertisement sales. It has formal, exclusive financial and editorial autonomy from the Kwantlen Student Association. Such autonomy avoids press freedom hindrance, where student unions or post-secondary institutions attempt to exert control over the content or funding of a student newspaper that commits journalism in the public interest.