The Beaver
| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | LSE Students' Union |
| Publisher | Mortons Print |
| Editor | Greg Sproston |
| Founded | 1949 |
| Political alignment | Unaligned |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Saw Swee Hock Student Centre, London School of Economics, Sheffield Street, London |
| Circulation | 2,500 in print, 12,000 online |
| Website | http://www.beaveronline.co.uk |
The Beaver is the weekly newspaper of the LSE Students' Union at the London School of Economics, England.
The Beaver has a strong tradition of hard-nosed, intelligent reporting. Around 2,500 copies are published and distributed around campus every Tuesday as well as online. The Beaver is governed by the Collective, a body of students who have contributed three or more written pieces or photographs to the paper and elects the editorial staff. The paper is made up of sections for News, Comment, Features, The City, The Union, The NAB and Sport, as well as an arts and culture supplement, PartB.
Named after the School's mascot, the Beaver, which was chosen “as representing an industrious animal with social habits”, The Beaver newspaper was first published in its recognised format on 5 May 1949, and is one of the oldest student newspaper in the UK. The British Library of Political and Economic Science holds print and digital archives of the paper dating back to this first issue, which was christened by George Bernard Shaw, one of the LSE's founders. Since then it has gone through several makeovers, survived LSE's turbulent history and emerged to be one of the most respected and widely read student newspapers in the UK.
The Beaver's news section has consistently been among the strongest in UK student media, consisting of LSE, University of London and Higher Education stories from across Britain, frequently being quoted in the national press. A recent example concerned the story of the LSE Council having discussed the option of privatisation, which was subsequently reported by a number of national newspapers including The Guardian.
Comment publishes pieces discussing issues that are relevant to the LSE community, political analysis, social commentary, original cartoons, and debate. The extensive range of articles and letters featured reflects the broad readership of the paper. Contributions to the Comment section have been wide-ranging and varied, from former LSE Director Sir Howard Davies to lay students. The name of the section was changed from Opinion to Comment in 2013.
The Features section of the paper deals with international relations, politics and strategic affairs. Interviews were a quintessential part of the Features section until 2015, and previous interviews conducted by Taryana Odayar have been with Economics Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, Ministers such as Marcelo Neri; the former Brazilian Minister of Strategic Affairs, North Korean defector Hyeonseo Lee, Dr Mattia Romani; Managing Director for Country and Sector Economics at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, as well as the head of the AOM NGO from Liberia during the peak of the Ebola crisis, and academics such as German Historian Sonke Neitzel. Other prominent interviewees in the past have been Sir Nicholas Stern and Queen Noor of Jordan, and Ambassadors such as the Lithuanian Ambassador to the UK.
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