Accuracy
We verify facts, name our sources and correct mistakes transparently.
Independent since 1967
Student stories.
Real experience.
A stronger campus.
The Almagest is LSU Shreveport’s student newsroom — built to inform our community and help the next generation of journalists learn by doing.
Our mission
News that keeps the Pilot community connected.
Since its inception in 1967, The Almagest has served as LSU Shreveport’s student publication. We involve students in the creation and delivery of timely, organized and objective reporting about campus and the Shreveport community.
Every edition is also a working newsroom: a place to report, photograph, edit, design, publish and learn how responsible journalism earns trust.
What guides us
Independence
Our reporting serves readers first and preserves a clear line between news and opinion.
Access
We make campus information understandable, useful and available to everyone.
Growth
Students learn through real responsibility, close editing and ambitious work.
Our story
Nearly six decades in print — and still evolving.
The first issue
The Almagest begins serving the new LSU Shreveport community.
A living print archive
Weekly editions chronicle campus debates, victories and change.
The newsroom returns
A renewed student team expands digital reporting and launches a biweekly newsletter.
A modern student newsroom
Stories move across web, print, social, photography and video.