The Looprevil Press
The Looprevil Press is a student newspaper at Liverpool Students' Union, the union for students at Liverpool John Moores University. It is both a student society and a part of the student media. As of May 2009, The Looprevil Press has been funded by the Liverpool Students’ Union. The Looprevil Press was founded in September 2008 by student Shamit Patel and is currently the only student newspaper in circulation in Liverpool. The LP offices are located on the second floor of the Haigh building.
The Name
The name, The Looprevil Press, is simply Liverpool spelled backwards and plays in with their tag line of “Bringing you the other side of Liverpool”. This was done in an attempt to reflect the duality of student life, to show that they can be both professional and a little eccentric of nature.
Current Information
The Looprevil Press started out as a dynamic website which contains four sections; News, Opinion, Entertainment and Sports. The current team consists of 25 members and is made up of writers, photographers and a web designer. The paper is currently edited by Shamit Patel with Jessica Green as the assistant editor. The organization has recently received funding and this will enable them to go into print as of September 2009. The Looprevil Press website is active throughout the year while the print edition will be circulated four times during the academic year. The four print issues will consist of a Freshers edition, a Winter edition, an Election edition and finally a Summer edition.
Team
The current team at the Looprevil Press is as follows:
Shamit Patel – Chief Editor/Writer/Marketing Manager
Jessica Green – Assistant Editor/Entertainment and Creative Arts Editor/Columnist
Rachael Carpenter - Assistant Entertainment Editor/Writer
Charlotte Walker - Writer/Marketing Assistant
Natasha Searle - Writer
Cleo Macfarlane - Writer
Samuel Fry – Writer/Columnist
Jennifer Joseph - Writer
Neal Caplin – Opinions Editor/writer
Laurence Connell - Assistant Opinions Editor/writer
Adam Hodgson – Opinions writer
Louise Ann Hudson - Opinions writer
Adam Phillips – News Editor/Writer
Anthony Halewood - Assistant News Editor/Writer -
Robert Jenkins - News writer
Jenny Mcnicholas - News writer
Dan Longman – News writer
Rob Perry – Sports Editor/Writer
Iver Kleiven – Sports writer
Pete Otway – Sports writer
Jayesh Patel - Sports writer
Tamhas Woods - Sports writer
Greg Donert – Website and Design
Jon Davies – Editor of Photography
Jack Hollington – Photography
Rishit Chudasama – Financial Director
Future plans
The Looprevil Press intends to expand into various new media fields such as a podcast system, a possible radio station and eventually a television station. By collaborating with other societies at the LSU, The Looprevil Press will create a strong media outlet for the students in Liverpool.