To donate to the Reveille’s annual fundraiser, go here. To purchase a graduate message in our paper, go here. You can also support us by eating at Cane’s on April 10 (info here).

It’s the Reveille’s annual fundraiser week, and we need your support to keep the newspaper producing our award-winning work. But what is it that we do here?

At the Reveille, we’re cultivating the next generation of budding journalists. I can say firsthand that because of my time at the Reveille, I feel infinitely more prepared in the classroom and, eventually, in the professional world.

I started here as a sports reporter covering the volleyball team, and I was floored at the opportunity to get up close and personal. Two years later, I became the sports editor, helping give other students those same experiences, and now I’m the paper’s managing editor.

Even as the Reveille is teaching the next journalists how to be journalists, we aren’t just doing trial and error stuff. We’re writing trailblazing news coverage.

The Reveille has a unique vantage point, situated among students with reporting by the students for the students. That perspective allows us to offer the most comprehensive coverage that any outlet can offer of every corner of LSU’s campus.

Being a student newspaper is truly an advantage. As an example from my own writing, when football head coach Brian Kelly said his team would be getting registered to vote, I had the inside scoop on how the program partnered with a student organization to do so. When LSU made sweeping changes in response to federal anti-DEI pushes, the Reveille was the only outlet to tell the full story of what was changing at LSU and how it affected student groups. I also had the first word on when the LSU Panda Express – a campus staple – would be returning.

Part of that is because, as student journalists, we’re so close to the action. We’ve interviewed people in even the highest offices at LSU, stood on the field at Tiger Stadium and asked LSU’s head coaches questions up close.

Another part, though, is the quality of journalism the Reveille is committed to. What the Reveille is doing – promoting ethical, thorough, top-notch journalism – is incredibly important, especially in today’s society.

The Reveille is so much more than reporters, though: It’s photographers, columnists, digital optimizers, designers, copy editors, paper deliverers, all committed to the same goal of informing the student body and the LSU community.

That’s what we’ll continue to do, and we humbly ask for your support so that we can keep it up and keep pushing further.

You can donate and receive Reveille merchandise (which looks pretty darn good, if I do say so myself). You can also purchase graduate messages to honor a graduating senior in our newspaper this May. Today, you can eat at Cane’s on Highland or Lee and mention the Reveille so that some of the proceeds go to us. Any donation, in any form, is deeply appreciated.

All of it will go toward making our newspaper better and enriching the experience of the nation’s next journalists.