Suchir Salhan is the Founder and Director of Cambridge University's newest publication, Per Capita and the Founder & President of Gonville & Caius College's Media & Journalism Society.

Co-founded by Suchir Salhan, Per Capita Media is a progressive, independent publication open for all university, sixth-form and secondary school students across the UK, covering News, Features & Culture. Since its establishment in August 2023, PCM has received interest from national publications nationwide, including The Times and The Sunday Times. It is a Registered Club & Society of the University of Cambridge.

The publication was founded under two guiding principles. First, PCM aims to encourage discussion and dialogue on under-discussed issues and progressive ideas, engaging students, academics and young people to provide a more complete perspective on ideas and events than would standardly fall under the remit of a student paper. This does not only mean highlighting a diversity of political perspectives, but also highlighting student activism and the work of student creatives. We have a deliberately wide remit, in particular covering Science & Technology. Second, acting in response to the contemporary student media landscape in the UK which in many ways feeds into the problems of the “traditional” media, we hope to democratise journalism through 

Per Capita Media is supported by Lady Stothard, Dr Ruth Scurr FRSL– a Fellow at Gonville & Caius College, the University of Cambridge. Scurr was a judge for the Man Booker Prize in 2007 and the Baillie Gifford Prize panel in 2023. She frequently contributes to The Times Literary Supplement and was previously the Editor of The Mays Anthology in her student days at Cambridge. To date, the publication has student contributors from Oxford University, the University of the Arts, London (Central St Martins & London College of Fashion) and UCL. Within Cambridge, PCM has benefitted from the support of Gonville & Caius College. Our Cambridge team have established the Caius Media & Journalism Society (CMJS), hosting speakers from the BBC, the Middle East Eye, and Emmy-nominated film producers.