At Pulse of the World, we aim to serve the Jacobs University community by informing, stimulating debate, promoting accountability and facilitating communication. And of course, to look and sound good doing it. We've been doing all that since 2004 and are only headed onwards and upwards from here! 

We've been Jacobs University's only independent student-run news source since 2004. Currently inhabiting the virtual sphere at www.pulseoftheworld.com, we cover all aspects of life on campus, from special events to policy changes to student opinion. Keep an eye out for our upcoming print edition, giving all members of the university community another way to join the debate.

Your Editors-in-Chief for this flight will be two second-year students: Ian Beacock (History '09) and Madeleine LaRue (HTAL '09), members of that rare species known as humanities students. They're from Canada and the United States respectively, which are actually separate countries and there is a difference. It's just sometimes difficult to describe. They're supported in their work by an ever-growing team of top-notch journalists and photographers, who somehow find time in their busy schedules to contribute superb writing on a variety of topics and usually under tight time constraints. Feel free to worship those incredible contributors at your convenience. They make the job of editing infinitely easier.

An incredible amount of support is also provided by Tino Kreutzer, founding father of Pulse of the World who now contributes from afar. Tino is currently based in the Central African Republic, but this globetrotter is always on the move, so this location may not apply for much longer.

We've got a short but exciting history, as POTW.com has made its meteoric rise in roughly three years from a newsletter reporting on an act of student revolt to an accessible and sexy-looking news platform.

It was the desire for a better way than email to spread information on campus that led to the first journalistic enterprise of the then-International University Bremen. A newsletter known as "Crossroads" began to circulate on campus, but changing priorities and graduating students lent it an early demise. The next project was the BRIMUN Daily in April 2004, a newsletter used for the university's new Model United Nations conference to keep information flowing between delegates.

In May 2004, fresh from the heady success of their BRIMUN Daily efforts, a team of students set about developing a campus news magazine: and The Pulse was born, so named out of an aim to keep a finger on the pulse of the university's campus life. The first Pulse issue documented the student performance of Pink Floyd's "The Wall". At about the same time, the same team gave birth (quite figuratively, of course) to Pulse Express, meant to be a rapid-fire, one-sheet news update about key events on campus.

That fall marked another watershed moment for the journalistic project on-campus as the team hit the web with Pulseoftheworld.com, the sole project of the original Pulse News Group still running today. The new website was unveiled at the student bar, TheOtherSide, at a kick-ass party on 24 September 2004. The team quickly grew to roughly 90 writers, photographers, layout-artists and editors, who worked throughout the year to keep news flowing.

The original rush of activity did slightly ebb after several years, but Pulseoftheworld.com is currently experiencing a Renaissance of sorts - the expanding team is once more covering on-campus events with speed and accuracy, digging into the activities of the university administration to make sure all is on the straight and narrow and bringing ideas and opinions to the campus community at-large.