Fourth Estate (George Mason University newspaper)

The Fourth Estate, sometimes stylized as the IV Estate or IV, is the student newspaper of George Mason University in Fairfax County, Virginia with an independent City of Fairfax, Virginia postal address.

The newspaper was previously called The Gunston Ledger from 1963 to 1969 and the Broadside from 1969 until 2013 when it merged with the website Connect2Mason to form the new student run newspaper, the Fourth Estate. The newspaper is a division of GMU Student Media alongside WGMU Radio. The Fourth Estate's audience and subject matter consists of issues related to faculty, staff, students, alumni, and other affiliates of George Mason University, Northern Virginia Community College, and the broader Northern Virginia sub-region of the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area.