About
Welcome to the online edition of The Roar. We have worked for several months finding the right website and working to build stories and features that are both fun and informative. As we launch, the newspaper staff asked me to share our thoughts and feelings as to how we arrived here.
This online student newspaper replaces the printed version that you’ve seen in the past. There are two reasons behind our decision to go strictly online. First, the price of printing a student newspaper has now become cost prohibitive. Secondly, time constraints keep us from turning around the newspaper quickly enough so that most of the content is already outdated when students receive it.
We started this year with a small group of smart, courageous and dedicated young women journalists. We spent the first six weeks brainstorming what would work best for our LHS community and for student journalists as well. Once we made the commitment to go online, much time was spent planning what we wanted our website to look like and searching for the right site that would give us the greatest flexibility for content… schoolnewspapersonline.com fit us perfectly.
As a journalism teacher and student publication adviser of 34 years, I have seen this industry turnover more times than I thought possible. In 2009, it became increasingly clear to me that student journalists need to be trained to handle the electronic media they will no doubt be faced with as they enter the job market.
In the fast moving pace of electronic technology, printed newspapers are becoming dinosaurs (and that does break my heart). But even I depend on the computer for my news and information…because it’s immediate and convenient.
We embrace the idea that this website should serve our school community of students and staff. We are soliciting writers; we welcome your comments and emails; take our surveys, share ideas with us and by all means, let us know how we are doing and how we can do better . The possibilities are endless for sharing ideas and that’s what partially drove us to the medium.
We are proud to be the first school in our district to take this step.
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