The scholastic-press arm of Homeroom
Run a real student newsroom — print edition and live news site, one staff.
One reporting cycle feeds your printed paper and a rolling online edition — on the same roster, consent gate, and private-cloud AI that build your yearbook. No journalism degree required.
No contract. No minimum order. Print-on-demand — zero overprint risk. Already set up? Sign in.
A whole newsroom, not a blog plugin
One cycle, two surfaces
Print and online from one staff
The same reporters run a recurring cycle — pitch, report, write, edit, publish, correct — that posts breaking news to the live site first, then packages it for the printed paper. The story budget resets every edition; nothing is double-entered. Newsroom workflow shipped
A real editorial workflow
Assignment to EIC approval, tracked
A genuine newsroom state machine moves each story from assigned to reported, edited, proofed, and editor-in-chief approved before it locks — with a verification and law/ethics gate every story passes. The adviser sees the whole budget and deadline board. Shipped
The privacy advantage
Private-cloud AI — student work is never sent out
Drafting help, headline and alt-text suggestions, and photo review run inside our own private cloud — no student writing, interview, or photo is shipped to an outside AI cloud. The find-my-child flow uses a roster lookup, not face matching, so it makes no face template; face matching is a separate opt-in feature, off by default and turned on only with family consent, and it does create a face template when a family enables it. A sentence a hosted blog tool structurally cannot say. Pipeline & consent gate shipped
Built for the adviser and the staff
For advisers
Run a full CTE-pathway newsroom with no journalism background: assign roles, beats, and a story budget; the software teaches each skill just-in-time, scaffolds the deliverable, grades it against a rubric, and prints the standards-alignment report (JEA, Common Core, ISTE, NAMLE, and your state codes). Press rights and ethics are front-loaded so nothing publishes before the rules are taught. A single-school FERPA wall is enforced at the database.
For students
Take a named role — reporter, editor, photographer, designer, online editor — and own a beat across the year. Learn the hard-news lead and the inverted pyramid, beat reporting and source-building, the staff editorial and the news/opinion wall, photojournalism honesty, and the press-rights framework (Tinker, Hazelwood, New Voices). Every lesson ends in a real article, page, or post that ships in the actual paper or on the news site.
From pitch to print — and to the live site
The recurring news cycle, run on the shared foundation. Every step advances a real edition; the curriculum IS the newsroom.
1. Pitch & assign
Reporters take beats; the editor builds the story budget for the edition — what runs, who owns it, how big — on a deadline board planned backward from the print date.
2. Report & write
On-the-record, read-back-verified quotes attach to the story in the editor; every factual claim is verified against a source before it can publish. Breaking news posts to the live site first, then updates.
3. Edit & approve
A two-reader copy/proof pass plus the law/ethics and press-rights gate; the editor-in-chief approves before lock. AP style, attribution, and consent are checked — in our own private cloud, never sent out.
4. Publish print + online
Lay the front page on a column grid with print preflight that blocks by default (a missing font fails the job, never a silent substitution), and publish the same lead to the accessible online edition with alt text on every image. Corrections logged transparently after publish.
One platform, every publication
The newsroom that already knows your school
The newspaper is not a separate purchase bolted on — it runs on the same Homeroom record as your yearbook, literary magazine, and picture day. One roster, one identity, one consent gate, one private-cloud AI, one print pipeline. A photo cleared for the paper is the same consented asset the yearbook and the storefront respect; a student who graduates off the roster leaves every publication at once. The breadth is the advantage: the incumbents fragment these across separate tools and separate invoices.
The yearbook, the newspaper, the news site, and the lit-mag share one roster and one consent record — so the rules a school sets once hold across every publication, automatically.
The promise, in one sentencePricing
Transparent, school-friendly pricing
Print editions are print-on-demand with a code-enforced cost floor (nothing sells below cost), a platform take-rate deliberately below the big combined-package companies’, and no contract, no minimum order, and no overprint. The online news site has no per-reader fee. The specific numbers are set for your program and shared during onboarding — here’s how the model works, and a quote when you’re ready.
The model, plainly
- Print-on-demand editions — zero overprint risk.
- A code-enforced cost floor — never below cost.
- A take-rate below the big combined-package companies’.
- No per-reader fee on the online edition.
- Specific pricing shared during onboarding.
Newsroom questions, answered
Can a teacher with no journalism background run this?
Yes — that is the design. The adviser assigns modules in order; the software teaches each skill just-in-time (90-second cards, never a PDF to leave the app), scaffolds the deliverable, grades it against a rubric with auto-signals pre-filled from production, and prints the standards-alignment report for the administrator. The curriculum IS the newsroom.
Is the print paper separate from the online news site?
No. One staff runs one reporting cycle that feeds both surfaces. Breaking news posts to the rolling site first and is later packaged for print; the editor decides what posts now versus what holds for the printed edition. Neither is double-entered.
Does student writing or interview audio go to an outside AI?
No. The AI assists (drafting help, headline and alt-text suggestions, photo review) run inside our own private cloud. No student writing, interview, or photo is shipped to an outside AI cloud. The find-my-child flow uses a roster lookup, not face matching, so it makes no face template; face matching is a separate opt-in feature, off by default and turned on only with family consent, and it does create a face template when a family enables it.
Do you handle press rights and the editorial-independence question?
Yes — it is first-class content. The curriculum teaches the Tinker/Hazelwood framework, prior review versus prior restraint, New Voices laws, and writing the staff editorial policy and forum statement. The press-rights and ethics gate is front-loaded so nothing publishes before the rules are taught.
How does it connect to our yearbook?
Same platform, same record. The newspaper shares the roster, identity, consent gate, private-cloud AI, and print pipeline with the yearbook, the literary magazine, and picture day — one tool, one invoice, rules set once and honored across every publication.
What’s true today
The proof is the architecture
We’re pre-launch on customers, not on substance — these are properties of the newsroom you can verify in a demo, not claims that wait on a pilot.
The newsroom is built and running
The assignment-to-EIC-approval workflow, the multi-pub editor, the public online edition, and print preflight that blocks by default are live today — book a demo and run a cycle. Shipped
Student work is never sent out
AI assistance runs inside our own private cloud; student writing and photos stay in. See the security architecture →
A standards-aligned curriculum
JEA (including Press Rights), Common Core, CTE, ISTE, and NAMLE — with state codes layered by your state, printed as an admin report. See the curriculum →
Pre-launch on customers: newsroom pilot references will appear here as our first programs go live — until then, the demo is the proof.
Start your newsroom
Book a walkthrough and we’ll run a real reporting cycle end to end — pitch to print and to the live site — or stand up your newsroom now and add the rest of the platform later. We never sell a roadmap as if it shipped.
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