The Gateway was conceived by three
Oxford University students, Mawuli Ladzekpo (
Exeter College), Max Lewis (
Pembroke College) and Chris Wilkinson (
Lincoln College) in the summer of 2007. The trio aimed to fill the apparent niche for a publication that combined business and financial news with independent careers advice, and sought to take advantage of the growing graduate
recruitment marketing industry that centered around
Oxbridge. The first issue of
The Gateway was released on 8 October 2007 with a circulation of 6,000 at
Oxford University. In November 2007,
The Gateway received commercial backing when the
London based boutique
recruitment consultancy, OxbridgeGroup, bought a stake in Career Gateways Limited. This injection of capital allowed for an increased distribution of
The Gateway to include an additional fourteen universities in the
United Kingdom. It also resulted in
The Gateway shedding its student workforce recruited by its founders, to be replaced with a team of full-time staff based at
The Gateway's headquarters in the
London Docklands. The company remained managed, in part, by its student founders. The Gateway Online newspaper and website were shut down in around 2018/19. ==Distribution universities==