About Us

From campus safety to global poverty actions, student issues and student movements have local, national, and even international impact. Unfortunately, on many campuses across the country student movements and issues don’t get the coverage they deserve. Students lose out when their media fail to connect them to each other and to wider national student concerns.

We believe that media should be the eyes, ears, and voice of the population they serve. Accordingly, we believe that campus media should focus primarily on student issues. We believe a strong campus media is the best way for students to stay connected, both within a campus and across the country.

Our answer to this is the National Student News Service (NSNS). We hope that by highlighting examples of good campus journalism, we will encourage and promote investigative journalism on college campuses. We hope that by connecting student journalists from all over America, we can help stretch the limited resources of smaller campus papers. We hope to provide a forum for connecting student activists and that by doing so our coverage helps bring their work to the attention of people of all ages.

Our staff and interns compile the best pieces of student-centered journalism from campus newspapers across the country and post article abstracts and links on our website. We also have a subscription option, which delivers to your inbox our summaries of, and links to, the best of student journalism.

The National Student News Service is nonpartisan; we are not a vehicle for endorsing either left or right wing activism. Rather, the NSNS is a vehicle for student reporters’ investigative work, and a venue for reporting activism by students of all social and political stripes.

Our goal is to show that all kinds of student movements are happening.

Meet Our Staff

Anne Lydgate is the new Director of the National Student News Service and hails from Boston, Massachusetts. She graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 2007, where she majored in English and worked as a Peer Counselor at the campus’ Resource Center. Anne’s journalism career began in 1992 when, as an 8-year-old, she was interviewed by the local television news about her thoughts on elementary school cafeteria food. She has been hooked ever since.

Alice Truong is a sophomore studying at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism where she has learned many important skills, such as reporting, writing and not fabricating quotes.  This Los Angeles-native loves journalism very much and hopes one day journalism will show its love in the form of a steady job.