The Charlatan is the independent weekly student newspaper at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario.

[1] It is published by a not-for-profit corporation, Charlatan Publications Inc., and is independent of student associations and university administration.

[5] Citing a desire to have a more fun, pranksterish image in keeping with the political spirit of the times, editor-in-chief Phil Kinsman encouraged using that name permanently.

In 1974, the Charlatan's photo editor Paul Couvrette secretly inserted a fake obituary of himself into the paper on production night.

[9] The joint board consisted of two representatives each from CUSA and the Charlatan, who appointed an independent fifth person, usually the university ombudsman, as chairman.

This was achieved by a vote of 1,013-457 in a campus-wide referendum in March 1988,[10] immediately after which it was incorporated as Charlatan Publications Inc.[11] The paper celebrated its 70th anniversary in September 2014.

The newspaper has five sections published in the physical paper: News, Features, Opinions-Editorials, Arts, and Sports, in addition to Photo, Multimedia, Graphics, and Web content.

The Charlatan's weekly talk-radio show, CharlatanLive launched in 2010 on Carleton's campus-based community radio station, CKCU-FM and now takes the form of a podcast.

[15] Carleton's engineering society also has its own newspaper, The Iron Times,[16] which runs a satirical column every issue called "Uses for The Charlatan."

Launching its first issue on February 9, 2009, The Leveller[18] describes itself as "a publication covering news, current events, and culture at Carleton University, in the City of Ottawa and, to a lesser extent, the wider world".

The Charlatan was accused of covering trivial topics and of publishing error-prone articles concerning student-run bodies that sometimes required retractions or issue corrections.