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David King, Louanne Morin, and Ian Vansegbrook (Vol.2): DELIRIOUS, RAVENOUS, AND PRETENTIOUS

WHAT WE DONE DID

BEGAN ARTHUR’S STEADFAST FORAY INTO THE DIGITAL SPHERE: That means regularly updating our social media accounts (ahem!) and bringing quality video content to screens around the world. From March 18, 2025 (the date of our convocation controversy video, which Ian declares the beginning of Arthur Online) to March 16, 2026, our Tiktok has grown from 280 followers to over 1,159. Meanwhile, Instagram only keeps its analytics for 90 days, but we can tell you that our new account (thanks Bill C-18!) which was founded in Feb 2024 now has 564 followers.
FOUND PRINTERS: Remember that? How we had no printers for a while in Vol.59? Well we fixed that. We now put out 2,000 copies a month during the publishing year.
RECONFIGURED OUR PRINTING MODEL: Arthur has a new look to accompany its new printer, stylized by one Evan Robins. Goodbye, tiny sans-serif font illegible to anyone with a vision below 20/20; hello, beloved Baskerville. Credit to that goes to Evan though, we just followed through. We introduced new sections to the print issue, including guest editorials from past editors in celebration of our 60th anniversary; Letters to Someone, bite-sized parody Letters to the Editors; and comics made in-house. We’ve sought to include original art and photography every issue, solidified our Horoscope and Games sections, and have generally gotten “a little bit silly with it” in the spirit of our forefather Stephen “I should name this newspaper after George Harrison’s haircut” Stohn.
SUCCESFULLY PRINTED 7 ISSUES OF ARTHUR: That’s nearly 14,000 Arthurs in the studious palms of our readers. Technically as of submitting this we won’t have printed the seventh, but unless somebody firebombs the office, we probably did!
ALWAYS BE CLOSING: Not only did we get our funny (print) up, we got our money up! Our monthly advertising revenue has consistently paid for all of our printing costs. If we lie to Ian and tell him some of the money will go to lunch, who knows what new heights we’ll reach!
DISTRIBUTION RACKS: Doesn’t sound that impressive now that I’ve written it down, but now we have dedicated distribution racks around town and on campus.
WON AWARDS AT NASH: Arthur’s outstanding journalists and women, Louanne Morin and V59 Journalist Willow Latella won themselves some awards at this year’s John H McDonald awards. Louanne received Gold in the News Reporting category for her coverage of encampment evictions in August 2025, while Willow got Bronze in Arts & Culture for her review of Emilia Pérez. Some of the credit here has to go to Willow and Louanne, as well as the editors of Volume 59 for working with Willow on her piece, but we’re pretty proud of the part we had to play in this.
DEFTLY FIELDED ONE BAJILLION EMAILS: It comes with the job, but no exaggeration we had so many that David started having Gmail nightmares.
CARRIED ON THE LEGACY OF OUR FORERUNNERS: Radio Free Arthur is alive and well, The Courier continues to be sent out (usually on time too!), we are keeping up City Council coverage and even introducing our new staff to it, in hopes they’ll pick up the torch when we die of old age. Same goes for our TCSA coverage and our patented Arthur interviews. In all this coverage, we’re teaching new staff the house style we’ve been taught by our predecessors and solidifying our overall formatting.

WHAT WE DIDN’T DO

CRASH AND BURN: We avoided steering this mighty ship into a telephone pole.
APPLY FOR TSWEP IN SUMMER 2026: Oops! None of our managing staff are eligible, so we lost out on almost $12,000. Don’t worry. We’re working on it.
CHANGE WEBSITES (YET): In our defense, we’ve made some progress in our search. David has some leads that we will keep following, and we’re angling to change over our web infrastructure and content management system before the next publishing year.
BIG DONATION FOCUS: Yeah, that was an epic time management mistake we’re hoping to amend in the next year. We know you loved the “fundraisers” and our little merch drives, so we’re working on it.

WHAT WE’RE SOWWY ABOUT (Bad Things We Did and Things We Need to Work On)

The Crossword Incident;
The “Your Name is in The Newsletter” Incident (Everybody Hated That);
The Recycling Incident;
Not Posting Radio Free Arthur On Spotify Sometimes (Oops!);
Holding Sadleir House Staff Hostage By “Chinwagging” At Them;
The Messiness Of The Office (David’s note: It used to be worse!)

WHAT WE WILL FOCUS ON

INSTITUTIONALIZING OUR KNOWLEDGE: We’ve picked up where the former editors left off, and we want to keep the ball rolling. We want to pass on our gains to future Arthurians: Our connections with the local media scene, politicians and community members; systematizing our digital presence and our multimedia expertise to teach to the next generation; our equipment rentals and connections; our new grants and advertising systems; and other administrative and professional standards that we want Arthur to carry forward.
LEVY INCREASE CAMPAIGN: We’re not only going to ask for an increase in our undergraduate student levy next year, but work to establish a graduate student levy as well. This will allow us to hire more student journalists, comfortably expand our operations, and create more learning opportunities for students and contributors.
GETTING DONATIONS: With David becoming our full-time pointman, we’re keen to ~diversify our revenue models~ in light of the Bill 33 uncertainty we’ve been working through. This means planning more fundraisers and donation drives, and more of the weird stickers and shirts you like.
COMMIT TO LARGE GRANT PROJECTS: We’re hoping to gain funding via government grants and charitable organizations with specific short and long-term projects. Through grant applications to the Ontario Trillium Fund, Heritage Canada, and other funding bodies, we’re hoping to do things like increase the accessibility of Arthur’s website and purchase necessary equipment like cameras and recorders. David will be sent into a deep pit of paperwork and forms, and won’t be allowed back until he brings home the bacon. In light of a presented deficit, these will hopefully become a recurring part of our income and allow Arthur to expand sustainably for the future.
MORE MULTIMEDIA STUFF: Big dreams, baby. We want more audio content, more and better videos, cooler graphics for our socials, more interviews, more everything that isn’t text on a page. “Let me cook.” - Ian
BUILDING FOR LONG-TERM CONSISTENCY: With our editorship came a pretty big rotation of what had been Arthur’s staff contingent from Volumes 57-59. Volume 60’s staff collective has been mostly made up of new journalists who have learned a lot and put out some amazing work over the course of this volume. For Volume 61, we want to build towards continuity and continue training new journalists so they can keep our coverage going far past this year.