You have a right to know how Louisiana’s flagship university is running. More than 60 Reveille staffers work hard each semester to find out and tell you.

Since the school year began in August, we’ve published more than 1,600 stories about the campus community. LSU is a powerhouse of influence in academics and athletics; we act as watchdogs to that power and capture the history of this storied institution, all while training the next generation of journalists.

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR: How you can share your news with the Reveille this semester
Our annual fundraiser runs this week from April 8 to 14. Your past donations have funded renovations to our newsroom, allowed student journalists to cover national championships and sent our students to conferences to bring new reporting skills back home. 

I believe that our work makes LSU a better place. I hope that if you agree — or if we’ve been able to tell you something that you wouldn’t otherwise know — that you’ll consider supporting our work through a donation of any size. 

You can support us through our donation link or by participating in our giveback with Krispy Kreme. We’re offering premiums for donations, including sweatshirts, T-shirts and Heisman Trophy posters.

Here’s some of the work we’re most proud of:

We’ve covered state politics through a campus lens. This fall, we were the first to report that Jeff Landry would skip a gubernatorial forum on campus — and the only to document the subsequent battle over condemning him in Student Government. 

Before the candidates took the stage at that forum, our reporters had exclusive interviews with the candidates, probing them on how they would lead higher education. On election night, we had reporters at three candidate events and the secretary of state’s office.

We’ve shone light on public bodies here that have broken the open meetings law and strayed from their public transparency obligations. We revealed how a former Greek Life employee may have entrapped fraternity members — and sued when LSU wouldn’t give up the related records. We’ve documented abuses in athletics and a myriad of Title IX problems around campus. 

Our team has reported on countless infrastructure problems at LSU, including buildings where it rains inside, poor working conditions for graduate students and bursting campus capacity in parking lots, dormitories and classrooms. 

We’ve captured LSU athletic history up close. Our student journalists were there when the women’s basketball team took home a national championship, when the baseball team won the college world series (and when LSU fans broke the Jell-O shot record) and when Jayden Daniels won the Heisman Trophy. 

We’re there for it all — the good, the bad and the ugly — because we believe you deserve the full picture of LSU’s triumphs and challenges. For 137 years, we have charted that journey. And for just as long, we have raised young journalists into motivated, sharp investigators. Our alumni have exposed abuses and wrongdoing in Baton Rouge and beyond, and have been recognized with honors like the Pulitzer Prize. 

On a personal level, joining the Reveille was the best choice I made in college. I had never met a journalist before I walked into this newsroom, and I had never considered reporting as a career path. Now, I couldn’t imagine doing anything else. 

I have learned so much from the talented, hardworking people I have met here over the past four years. Our staffers put in long hours in the newsroom and in the field. It takes dozens of us — reporters, photographers, page designers, delivery workers, digital optimizers, editors and more — to get you the news. 

Your support will help us keep doing that work — and to do it better.