About Les Comrades
A student newsroom with a backbone.
We publish what the official channels would rather defer — clearly, fairly, and on the record. Built by students, edited by students, for anyone who still reads to think.
Our Mission
Journalism that earns the page it prints on.
Les Comrades began as a hostel common-room paper and grew into a four-desk operation covering environment, policy, psychology, and society. We are unaffiliated, unfunded by any party, and uninterested in stenography.
Every story we publish goes through a reporter, an editor, a fact-checker, and a standards review. Mistakes are listed publicly. Corrections are dated. Sources, where named, are named because they consented.
If you want a slogan: we write down what happened, before someone else gets to decide what it meant.
Four House Rules
Refuse to look away
Hard stories get the same care as easy ones. If it's true and it matters, we publish it.
Independence, audibly
No advertiser, club, or office controls what we write. Funding is transparent, on the masthead.
Craft over noise
We edit hard. A short piece beats a long one. A clear line beats a clever one.
Inquiry as a habit
Curiosity is the only entry requirement. We teach the rest in the newsroom.
How we got here
- 2022First issue, printed in a hostel common room
Twelve pages, four reporters, one borrowed laser printer.
- 2023Web edition + first investigation
A six-week report on campus contracting brought 40k readers.
- 2024Editorial board formalised
Standards, fact-checking, and a public corrections policy.
- 2025Press Corps & video desk launched
Field reporting beyond campus, with on-location video.
- 2026Volume IV — and counting
Nine issues, four bureaus, and a newsroom that doesn't sleep.
"A newspaper isn't paper. It's a promise — that someone in the room was paying attention, and is willing to put their name on it."
The current issue
Investigations, essays, and shorts — updated every Saturday morning.
The masthead
The reporters, editors, and operators who put the paper together.
Write with us
Five desks are hiring this term. No prior bylines required.