THE STAFF at The Cheese Grater take the opinions of the journalistic community very seriously, which is why we were all disheartened to read such razor-sharp observations in the last Pi Magazine. It was therefore a small consolation to discover that staff at minor national daily The Guardian rated The Cheese Grater the top small budget student publication in the country.
The elite the of student media made their way to LSO St Luke’s in Old Street for the 28th Guardian Student Media Awards on 8th November. Six of us turned up fully expecting to lose, but we were looking forward to ogling compere Lauren Laverne’s arse.
Unexpectedly, we won. The Small Budget Publication category was judged by: Will Woodeditor of Golf Punk Magazine and Gordon Thomson, editor of Time Out. The Cheese Grater was described as having a “gang mentality” and being “hilarious”. Gordon Thomson also ex claimed that the magazine was “a diamond in a sea of shit”.
The fact that The Cheese Grater managed to stumble into this accolade after only two and a half years in existence and on a meagre annual budget of five hundred pounds speaks volumes. Who knows what the magazine might achieve with ten grand a year and sixty years of history?