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i-on Glasgow is the sister magazine of i-on Edinburgh. It's a lovely glossy lifestyle magazine that…read moreyou can pick up for FREE in various bars, restaurants and shops around the city. Inside the magazine you'll find a great selection of well written articles and glossy photographs documenting fashion, interior design, culture and local Glasgow events. You'll also find interviews with celebs (emphasis on Glaswegians). Businesses such as Mr Ben Vintage and Boudiche advertise with i-on, as it's a great way in which to reach the culture vultures of the city. Definitely pick up this little gem next time you see it sitting in the magazine rack at your local cafe!

I love this wee shop and stop by once in a while for a Morton's roll before catching the bus to…read moreschool! The owners are friendly and the selection is great! Just yesterday, I found a large sized chocolate bar that was 40p cheaper than most stores in the area sell it. Hooray for local news agents!!

Friendly staff, great selection, convenient hours, the heart of the community around Broomhill…read moreCross!

Glasgow University Magazine is the oldest student magazine in Scotland and as Father Ted once said,…read more"and in my view the best". In the interest of objectivity I should mention I was the Deputy Editor of this fine publication last year. So what is in GUM? Well it has a mix of arts, culture, politics, cinema and general interest. It can be found all over campus and in cafes, coffee shops bars, pubs and clubs across the West End of the city, all Glasgow University halls of residents and in random, interesting places in the city centre. (Insert shameless plug here...) it is free, it is glossy and it is great. I highly recommend you pick it up.

Glasgow University Magazine (or GUM as the cool kids shorten it to) is the university's resident…read moremagazine. I'm so not down with the kids these days so I can't remember how you get involved, but I'm pretty sure there's information inside. You can pick GUM up all over the campus, from in the halls of residence to in the John Smith buildings and university unions. From what I recall it's rather arty, so you can expect loads of abstract articles and cool photography. It's very glossy and very free, so you've not reason not to chew on GUM to be honest. Unless you're not at Glasgow University. Now that would probably be a reason that you wouldn't pick it up. But lucky for you it can be found in certain circles around the west end, so dive in and have a gander!

Much the same as the Celtic news in terms of content except with blue rather than green tinted…read morespecs on, the Rangers News is bought and read exclusively by supporters of the team it reports on. Again, it benefits from its Pravda like status with the club; getting behind the scenes to areas papers wouldn't be allowed near, and providing a range of sycophantic features on not particularly great players. You know the sort of thing; Is John Fleck the new Pele? Beckenbauer in awe of Danny Wilson. And so on. Nevertheless I'm sure it's a good read for supporters of the Ibrox club and remains one of the most popular magazines in the city. Indeed, many of the most successful journalists in the country actually cut their teeth at both the News and the Celtic View.

A shop that reminds me of Arkwright's open all hours, a shop that literally sold everything from a…read morenewspaper to a hard hat. This may not be the best of shops with a window display that it looks like an after thought, but there are a few good things about this shop such as the free cash machine, that's well needed in this busy area especially when a few do charge for their use.

The Glasgow Guardian is the independent student newspaper for the University of Glasgow. This…read moreplucky little paper is one of the longest running in Scotland and it has a great reputation in student media circles. It is regularly awarded the Best Student Newspaper at the Herald's annual Scottish Student Media Awards and has been nominated for Best Student Newspaper at the Guardian's British Student Press Awards. If you're a student at the University of Glasgow then you can contribute and meetings usually take place in the Williams Room of the John Macintyre Building on Campus. Copies of the paper can be found across campus and in many places in the West End of the City, particularly in the shops and bars of Byers Road and Gibson Street. Their website has recently had a major facelift and is looking pretty darn good- check it out.

During my time at Glasgow I'd often look out for the new copies of this freebie arriving at the…read morelibrary or reading room. I found it far more opinionated and cleverly written than you'd expect, and managed to bypass the cliched "stop the war" and "make poverty history" articles that often clog up student journalism. If I'm walking by the GUU I'll still occasionally dive in and nick a copy, though it does make me feel a bit old now. I even managed to get a couple of music reviews printed here in the bygone days, though unfortunately the same year they let a complete dobber from my Sociology class have his own opinion column, where he'd use flowery language and make meaningless statements such as "The ipod generation is all about the fetishisation of information." Tosser. Thankfully, he's long gone from the pages. So enjoy.

Pretty standard free sheet fare, the Extra leans very much towards a "pun in every opening…read moreparagraph" way of thinking as opposed to hard news breaking. You know the kind; "So and so created a splash at a recent swimming festival...", "Horse riding was neigh bother for local kids..." and so on. Which is fair enough really. The goalposts have moved in local news reporting and it's inevitable that papers must now err very much on the side of the caution. Generally speaking the Extra is OK; reasonably busy pages for a free offering and decent news and sports coverage for the south side of the city. However what can't be accepted is the lack of attention paid to spelling and grammar. Peppered with misspelled words and poor punctuation, the paper exudes an unprofessional feel which undermines many of its features. Must do better.

This newspaper is absolutely rubbish. The articles are bland and unquestioning. The layout is…read moreuntidy. The photos have clearly been taken by a six mega pixel digital camera. However, having previously worked on a freesheet, I know what the conditions are like. The poor quality of this newspaper is not the journalists' fault, in fact the whole publication is probably being written and designed by one person. There are just no resources and money behind these operations. The future of the print media is probably freesheets but hopefully not like these. No one will ever read newspapers again.