The Tulane Hullabaloo has elected junior Lillian Foster to serve as editor-in-chief for the 2026-2027 academic year. 

Foster is from Mandeville, Louisiana majoring in communications and minoring in Spanish. She is also a recipient of the Posse Scholarship at Tulane University, a four-year full-tuition scholarship. 

Foster gained journalism experience throughout her high school and college career. She was the editor of her high school newspaper at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, a role she maintained for two years. 

Since coming to Tulane, she has interned at Where Y’at Magazine, served as the communications coordinator for Tulane’s Newcomb Institute and was a news intern at the Sun Herald in Biloxi, Mississippi last summer. She will be returning to the Sun Herald this summer to continue this role. Foster plans to pursue a career in journalism after she graduates.

Foster will follow senior Ian Faul as the new editor-in-chief. 

Foster’s experience at The Hullabaloo began in 2023 as a contributing writer, covering topics from campus protests to former President Joe Biden’s speech at Tulane. She became the breaking news editor in the fall of 2024 and the investigative news editor in the spring of 2025, where she has taken on stories including fraternity hazing lawsuits and various Tulane and New Orleans ties to Jeffrey Epstein. 

“When I was little, my mom always told me that I was nosy. To her surprise, I was able to turn that into a career,” Foster said.