 The 100-year-old student newspaper, "The Hampden-Sydney Tiger", has produced many prominent journalists, including Jonathan Martin of the "New York Times", Chris Stirewalt of Fox News, Charles Hurt of the Washington Times, Matthew Karnitschnig, the chief Europe correspondent for Politico and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and Matthew Phillips of CNN, who was previously an editor for Bloomberg Businessweek and Freakonomics.The college campus is home to a volunteer fire department, which provides fire suppression service and non-transport basic life support EMS to Prince Edward County and the college, as well as assisting the Farmville fire department at fires within the town limits.HSVFD, Company 2, is located on the south end of campus near the water tower and the physical plant.