Georgetown University's main newspaper of record since 1920. With over 250 staff members, the Hoya is an online daily and prints every week.
Yasmine worked in the News and Feautures section before becoming Executive editor. She most recently served on the paper's Board of Directors.
Like many Georgetown University students, Teodora Lancaster (COL ’20) expected her time on the Hilltop to be a balancing act of classes, internships, healthy social outings and sightseeing. But just over a year into her time at Georgetown, Lancaster is coming to understand the severe constraints imposed by her financial situation.
Recipient of Georgetown's Edward J. Bunn Award for Journalistic Excellence in 2018.
Ticket Profile: Sahil Nair and Naba Rahman Tout Inclusivity Initiatives
When Sahil Nair (SFS ’19) and Naba Rahman (SFS ’19) first met on a national debate circuit their senior year of high school, they never would have anticipated that four years later they would run in the Georgetown University Student Association’s 2018 executive election.
Georgetown Donors at Center of Middle East Rivalries
When Lebanese and Georgetown University elites filled an overflowing Lohrfink Auditorium in 2009 to celebrate a $22 million gift honoring former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the audience and school did not know that fewer than 10 years later, the Georgetown alumnus who gifted the amount would be at the center of geopolitical instability and scandal in the Middle East.
‘Supposed to Be Infallible’: Kennington Abused Children of Family Friend
Christine Lyons saw Fr. Jack Kennington as a close family friend. Her neighbors on Manhattan’s Lower East Side saw him as a proud advocate for people struggling with drug addiction and a popular priest in the community throughout the 1980s. All the while, Brendan and Bridget Lyons, Christine’s children, knew “Uncle Jack” as a sexual abuser.
Part of The Hoya's 20,000 word investigation that uncovered Georgetown's ties to the clergy sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church. The Hoya profiled 13 Priests and 1 nun, who had been credibly or plausibly accused of sexual abuse and were linked to the university.
