Cool School Newsletters, Newspapers, and Magazines

How can newspapers and magazines provide a real-world audience for students?

Where can students publish their projects and artwork?

What makes online publishing so attractive to students?

Many schools have a newsletter or newspaper, but does your school publish an online newspaper or ezine? School e-newspapers include everything from a regular school newspaper along with columns, chats, forums, and other interactive features.

Be sure to explore the National Scholastic Press Association winners. Check out winners from 2010.

Looking for ways to produce high-quality online student newspapers? Read the following resources:

• Campus Weblines

This page contains links to newsletters as well as online school newspapers and magazines.

 

Newsletters

Elementary & Middle School

• Junior Seahawk from Seattle, Washington
• Highlands Headlines – (5th grade student produced) LaGrange Highlands School District 106, IL
• Moleules in Motion from Arlington Science Focus School Kindergarten Class
• Newsletter from Collier Elementary School, Tuscon Unified School District, AZ
• ROMPS Review - Robinson O'Neal Primary School, Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands (check out their May 2006 issue)
• Trottier Middle School Newsletter (Index to monthly editions)

Middle-High School

• Big Foot Bulletin from Big Foot High School, Walworth, WI (Index to monthly pdf)
• CNHS
• Communicator
• The Eagle
• El Estoque
• The Eye Online
• Eye of the Storm
• FHC Today
• FHN Today
• Fort Tribal Talk
• Foothills Dragon Press
• Harbinger Online
• Hoofprint
• HiLite Online from Carmel, Indiana
• Knight Errant
• The Lariat
• Lion's Roar from Newton South High School, Newton Centre, Mass.
• The Littlehawk
• Lowell on the Web from San Francisco, Calif.
• Niles West News
• NewsStreak
• Orange and Black GJHS News from Grand Junction High School, Grand Junction, CO
• Oshkosh West from Oshkosh, WI
• The Paly Voice from Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, Calif.
• Penn Points
• The Recorder
• Rockville Rampage Online from Rockville High School, Rockville, Maryland
• Silver Chips Online from Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Spectator Online from Stuyvesant High School, New York, N.Y.
• The Talon
• tjTODAY
• The Tribune from Norman OK
• TRN Wired
• Wayland Student Press Network

Other Educational

• Piano Adventures’ Teachers Newsletter (4 issues per year) by Nancy & Randall Faber

 

Try It

Explore online student magazines and newspapers. Brainstorm ways you could start your own project.

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