They don’t call it a newspaper for nothing. News is the heart and soul of The Crimson — a home for anyone who wants to ask questions, dig for answers, and make a real impact.

From student government scandals to hard-hitting metro coverage to exclusive interviews with Harvard’s top administrators, we pull back the curtain on institutional structures across the University and the city of Cambridge.

The Crimson is financially independent from Harvard — which means the lights stay on because of the work we do. Business Board members sign five-figure contracts, produce award-winning sponsored content, and plan international conferences, all before graduating.

Unlike most Crimson boards, Business comp is competitive. Over the course of several weeks, compers will participate in two written application rounds, workshops, coffee chats, and interviews with our executive team. No previous experience is required — everything you need for the comp, you’ll learn during the comp.

Don’t like The Crimson’s opinions? Join Editorial. We’re a tight-knit community of students from across the ideological spectrum, committed to discussing ideas, developing arguments, and learning from one another.

From speech and protest, to curriculum and campus politics, you can have a hand in shaping conversations surrounding one of the world’s most important universities — praising it, criticizing it, and challenging it to be better.

Harvard has more varsity sports than any other school in the country, and somebody’s got to cover them. That’s where we come in.

Meet players and coaches, interview esteemed pro alums, and take exciting road trips — on us. Whether you want to contribute occasionally or follow Harvard’s athletes up and down the East Coast, Sports has a place for you.

A picture is worth a thousand words. As The Crimson embraces the digital-first future of journalism, Multimedia is crucial — bringing our written work to life through photo, video, and podcast content.

We fill The Crimson’s pages with 1,000+ photos every year. Our videos drew more than 1 million views on YouTube and Instagram last year, and Newstalk, our award-winning flagship podcast, publishes regularly to thousands of listeners across the country.

Want to make the cover of our next magazine, or the illustration that runs alongside a front-page story? Comp Design.

No previous design experience is required. You’ll learn everything you need to know during our comp — and walk away with both practical, highly marketable skills and an immediate social and professional network.

Fifteen Minutes, The Crimson’s weekly magazine, is Harvard’s home for narrative journalism. Since 1976, we’ve chronicled the people, politics, and phenomena that shape our campus and city.

Our coverage is defined by our commitment to storytelling and style. We craft vivid stories about the characters and forces driving the news — with wit, verve, and precision.

Tech is one of the only places on campus where you’ll ship code to a production site with real users and real consequences. The Crimson serves millions of page views a year on a stack we built and run ourselves — one of the few newsrooms, professional ones included, with a proprietary CMS.

Tech board members build reader-facing features and the internal tools our editors use every day. On the frontend, this includes projects like data visualizations, interactives, and scrolls — interactive, long-form articles. On the backend, it includes speeding up site regeneration, improving deploy workflows, and optimizing database queries.

Unlike most Crimson boards, Tech comp is competitive. Over the course of several weeks, compers will submit a deliverable and discuss their code in a final round interview. It is recommended that you have experience with some programming language, but it doesn’t have to be web development, and our comp is designed to accommodate programmers with all levels of experience.

Do you care deeply about what we see, watch, and hear? Interested in using art to reflect on our world and shape vital civic conversations? Arts is for you.

We cover pop culture icons, local concerts, new releases, and the arts scene at Harvard and across Boston. Our writers have reported from Cannes, interviewed Will Ferrell and Celeste Ng, and regularly get free tickets to advance movie screenings, music performances, and speaker events.

Are you witty? Funny (be honest now….)? A serial Sidechat user? Want a great community to laugh and eat Trader Joe’s snacks with? Blog is the place (board?) to be.

The Crimson’s flagship blog, Flyby covers all things student life, from Housing Day to Visitas. We encourage you to write about whatever interests you most, whether it be HUDS, your Blank Street addiction, or bush jumping — no topic is too niche or unserious!