Les Comrades

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.

180+
Stories filed
32
Reporters on the rolls
9
Active desks
4yr
On the beat

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

  1. 2022
    First issue, printed in a hostel common room

    Twelve pages, four reporters, one borrowed laser printer.

  2. 2023
    Web edition + first investigation

    A six-week report on campus contracting brought 40k readers.

  3. 2024
    Editorial board formalised

    Standards, fact-checking, and a public corrections policy.

  4. 2025
    Press Corps & video desk launched

    Field reporting beyond campus, with on-location video.

  5. 2026
    Volume 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."
— Raghav Dasila, Chairman
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Investigations, essays, and shorts — updated every Saturday morning.

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The reporters, editors, and operators who put the paper together.

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Five desks are hiring this term. No prior bylines required.