Tiger Weekly
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Tiger Weekly is an independently owned student alt-weekly newspaper published by University Media Group and distributed on the campus of Louisiana State University and around the Baton Rouge, LA community. The publication was founded in 1997 by then student Wayne Lewis who set out to create his own student newspaper after being repeatedly misquoted by the University's paper, the Daily Reveille.
Tiger Weekly publishes approximately 37 issues per year, in line with the LSU academic calendar. The publication is distributed on Wednesdays and has a weekly readership of approximately 47,000.
The content of Tiger Weekly is a mix of campus news, sports and local entertainment, in which the majority is produced by students of Louisiana State University. The daily operations of the paper, such as sales and graphic design, are handled by a full-time staff.
[edit] Editorial Staff
The editor-in-chief of Tiger Weekly is 22-year-old Baton Rouge resident Stephen Phillips. Working under him is a team of section editors: Jon Specht (news editor), Jason Andreasen (entertainment editor), Madeline Brown (music editor) and Jason Dupuy (sports editor). The paper has more than 30 freelance contributing and senior writers, as well as several photographers and comic artists.
[edit] Other UMG Publications
Tiger Weekly's parent company, University Media Group, also publishes an independent student alt-weekly at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio called UWeekly.
