What are the benefits of going online?
New advances in online publishing technology can provide school newspapers with solutions to many of their current challenges.
Save money
Has your school reduced or completely cut its newspaper budget because it can’t afford the printing costs? Most schools spend $400 to $600 for each issue they produce. For the price of one print issue, you can set up a professional quality Web site and you can update it as often as you want.
Become more timely and more relevant
So often, high-school newspapers publish stories weeks or even months after they happen. When you have a Web site, you can publish as often as you’d like. Publishing online will open up new story opportunities that were impractical when you only published a print edition once a month.
Create a positive school image
Your students’ parents and your community will be impressed with your professional product, and you can use your Web site to showcase your students’ and school’s success. If your school relies on fundraising, your newspaper and its RSS feed could be an effective way to keep your alumni base in touch with the school.
Help your students become better writers
When students know that they could have thousands of potential readers, you’ll find they write just a little more carefully and a little more purposefully.
You can undo your mistakes
Every adviser has one of those horror stories about something that got published that shouldn’t have. Any article on your newspaper Web site can be un-published with one click.
