About The Galleon
The Galleon, formerly Pugwash News, is the University of Portsmouth’s official fortnightly newspaper. Full of the latest news, sports, reviews, opinion and gossip.
Pugwash News was founded in the 2007 academic year by the sabbatical officer responsible for media at the time, Alex Harries, and a student volunteer, Jacob Leverett. The newspaper gets its name from our sister publication, Pugwash magazine. The name refers to Portsmouth University guild of writers and student hacks, rather than any popular 90′s cartoon. Starting off as a 12 page black and white publication in its first year, the paper went to colour and sixteen pages in 2008 and remained so until the 2010 academic year. Last year the paper has gone from 16 to 24 pages and seen the launch of our fully functional website.
Other events led to issue 25 being distributed without a front page after an article about university renumeration was pulled, rather unfortunately, after it had gone to print. We’ve recently published our milestone 50th issue.
The newspaper changed it’s name in February 2012 to The Galleon in an effort to make the paper more professional.
Past members have gone on to PR roles, reporters on various local newspapers, specialist journalism as well as moving on to roles at the NUS and staff positions at the Students’ Union here.