Who's behind the news?
Who's behind the news?
Coventry, England, United Kingdom
The Boar is the student newspaper of the University of Warwick in Coventry, England, the only student-run print newspaper on campus and the university's largest media society. It is affiliated with Warwick's Students' Union but editorially independent, funded entirely through self-generated advertising revenue with no union budget, and staffed by roughly 80 unpaid volunteer editors across 16 sections.
The Boar's first issue was published October 11, 1973, by founding editor Godfrey Rust and co-founder Kasper de Graaf, eight years after the University of Warwick's founding; it succeeded an earlier, short-lived publication called Campus. According to Rust, the name was chosen for its heraldic sound, based on the founders' recollection, while drinking at the Pennyfarthing Bar, that Warwick's symbol was a bear and Coventry's an elephant. The paper became free to readers in 1990 and moved from weekly to fortnightly print in 2009 amid financial pressure; its website was relaunched in 2004 and again in 2013. The Boar was named BBC Radio 4's Student Publication of the Year in both 2018 and 2019, and won Best Design at the Student Publication Association's 2025 national conference.
Email
communications@theboar.org
Website
https://theboar.org
Sources
The Boar. About
The Boar. An Interview With the Founders of The Boar