Gyro is a member of the Aotearoa Student Press Association (ASPA),[2] and was the first polytechnic publication to fully join.
Gyro was replaced with a weekly digital news-letter style publication, StudentNews in 2014.
Previously Gyro was printed fortnightly and covered news, features, regular columns, and reviews.
Archive copies are held at Dunedin's Hocken Collections,[3] which is run by the University of Otago.
Gyro won second "Best Headline" and second "Best Small Publication" at the 2009 ASPA National Awards,[5] second "Best Headline", second "Best Reviewer" and third "Best Columnist" in the 2010 Awards, and first-equal "Best Review", third "Best Original Photography", fourth "Best editorial", and fourth "Best Unpaid News Reporter" in the 2012 awards.