Student Newspaper Press · the newsroom press · pitch to print
Put out a real student newspaper — write, edit, lay out, and print on one schedule.
A student newspaper lives and dies by deadlines. Student Newspaper Press is the desk where reporters file, editors mark up copy, and a page designer drops approved stories into a broadsheet or tabloid layout that is actually ready for the printer — on the same multi-surface publications editor that builds the school’s yearbook, not a separate app to learn. Bylines and photo credits come from the staff roster, so the masthead is right.
The newsroom desk, the roster-linked masthead, and the print layout are live and free to start today. Money is honest-off on this page — there is no checkout and no card is charged here.
Pitch to print
A newsroom workflow from pitch to print: filing, editing, and page layout in one place.
Mastheads from the real roster
Mastheads and credits build from the real staff roster, not a hand-kept list.
Priced by the school
Free to start; print runs are priced by the school, with no markup hidden in the software.
What Student Newspaper Press is
It is a press — the desk where a school’s newspaper is written, edited, laid out, and sent to print — and nothing more grand than that. A story starts as a pitch, becomes a filed draft, goes through the editors who mark up the copy, and finishes as a page a designer lays into a broadsheet or tabloid layout that is actually ready for the printer. That is the one job this address does.
It is deliberately narrow. It does not run picture day, it does not keep the official student record, and it is not a general-purpose newsroom management suite. Its job starts when a reporter pitches a story and ends when the issue is at the printer or has become part of the year’s coverage archive. Because it stays narrow, a small staff can hand the paper to a new adviser or a new editor-in-chief without handing over anything beyond the newspaper itself.
Pitch, file, edit, lay out — one desk, one schedule
A reporter pitches a story and files a draft. From there, the school’s editors mark up the copy the way a real newsroom always has — the read-and-revise pass a working paper runs before anything is ready for a page. A story does not reach the printed page on its own: it moves to a page designer only once the newsroom’s own editorial approval step has cleared it, the same roster-linked editorial-approval mechanism this platform already runs for its other publications.
Once approved, the page designer lays the story into a broadsheet or tabloid page on the same multi-surface publications editor that also builds the school’s yearbook spreads — not a fourth, separate tool a staff has to license and learn on top of the others. A student running page layout for the paper this term may be the same student who lays out yearbook spreads next term, and the skills carry over because the tool does.
A masthead and credits built from the real roster
A byline or a photo credit is drawn from the same staff roster the school already keeps for the yearbook — not typed in free-form by a reporter chasing a deadline and not a hand-kept list a section editor has to maintain separately. Fix a name once on the roster and it is fixed everywhere it is credited: this week’s issue and the issues that came before it.
The masthead for an issue — who is editor-in-chief, who edited which section, who is on staff this term — resolves from the same roster, so it is right without a staffer retyping it into a template every issue.
A broadsheet or tabloid page, actually ready for the printer
Laying out a page is not the same as a page being ready to print. Before an issue goes out, the layout is checked against the things a real print run cares about — an image sharp enough at the size it is placed, text and photos clear of the trim and fold, the bleed a printer needs at the edge — and a page that fails is flagged rather than shipped and hoped over. A broken page costs a reprint a small paper does not have the budget for; catching it before the print bill is the point.
A plain note on where a page goes once it clears that check: turning a laid-out page into an actual newspaper means the file travels out to a print lab that runs the physical press and produces the printed copies. Printing a real broadsheet or tabloid has always worked this way — a page bound for print goes out to be printed, and this page does not pretend otherwise. What we promise instead is narrower and true: a photo used in the paper is never sold, and a minor pictured in it is never made public to the open internet, never indexed by a search engine, and never sold, at every stage from layout through delivery. Facial recognition is off by default.
One archive, feeding the yearbook’s news section
Every issue becomes part of a running archive of the year’s coverage. That same archive is what feeds the year’s news coverage into the yearbook’s own news section when the book comes together — the same underlying publications editor and the same staff roster serve both, not two separate systems a staff has to keep in sync by hand. It is a plain running record of what the paper published, described exactly as that and nothing grander.
Money is honest-off on this page
Student Newspaper Press is free to start: a school can open the newsroom desk, file a pitch, and lay out a page without a card on file. Print runs are priced by the school, with no markup hidden in the software — there is no separate price this page sets or discounts. This page runs no checkout and takes no payment; a school’s actual print order is placed on its own terms.
And the plain limit: Student Newspaper Press is a for-profit tool a school pays for the parts it chooses — not a nonprofit and not a school. It is a vendor, not a charity, so a purchase here is simply a purchase and is never dressed up as a gift to a nonprofit.
Common questions
How does a story move from pitch to the printed page?
A reporter pitches a story and files a draft. The school's editors mark up the copy, and the story moves to page layout only once the newsroom's own editorial approval step has cleared it. A page designer then lays the approved story into a broadsheet or tabloid page ready for the printer.
Where do bylines and photo credits come from?
From the school's own staff roster -- the same one used for the yearbook -- not typed in free-form by a reporter chasing a deadline. Fix a name once on the roster and it is fixed everywhere it is credited, including the masthead for the issue.
Is the paper actually printed, and what happens to the file?
Yes. Once a page clears the print-ready check, it goes out to a print lab that runs the physical press and produces the printed copies -- a real broadsheet or tabloid run has always worked this way. A photo used in the paper is never sold, and a minor pictured in it is never made public to the open internet, never indexed by a search engine, and never sold, at every stage from layout through delivery.
Does the newspaper's coverage feed the yearbook?
Yes. Every issue becomes part of a running archive of the year's coverage, and that same archive feeds the year's coverage into the yearbook's own news section -- the same publications editor and roster serve both.
How much does it cost, and can we use it now?
The newsroom desk, the roster-linked masthead, and the print layout are live and free to start today. Print runs are priced by the school, with no markup hidden in the software. There is no checkout and no card is charged on this page.
How is this different from journalist.software?
journalist.software is the complete newsroom-desk software product: the assignment board, the multi-stage editing queue, roster-linked bylines, and the adviser's approval, publishing to print layout and an online edition. Student Newspaper Press is the narrower print-and-publish facet of the same platform: the pitch-to-print path for the physical broadsheet or tabloid, the masthead and credits from the roster, and the archive that feeds the yearbook.
How is this different from litmag.press?
litmag.press is the submission-to-print desk for the school's literary magazine -- poems, prose, and art. Student Newspaper Press is the equivalent desk for the school's newspaper -- reporting, bylines, and a broadsheet or tabloid front page. Both ride the same shared multi-surface publications editor.
Are you a nonprofit or a charity?
No. Student Newspaper Press is a for-profit tool a school pays for the parts it chooses. It is not a charity and not a school, so a purchase here is simply a purchase, never dressed up as a gift to a nonprofit.
What this page is and is not claiming
Student Newspaper Press is a pitch-to-print newsroom workflow, a broadsheet or tabloid layout on the same multi-surface publications editor that builds the yearbook, a masthead and credits built from the real staff roster, and an archive that feeds the yearbook’s news section — nothing beyond that is asserted here. Money is honest-off: free to start, print runs priced by the school with no markup hidden in the software, and this page runs no checkout. A photo used in the paper is never sold, and a minor pictured in it is never made public to the open internet, never indexed by a search engine, and never sold. Facial recognition is off by default. Printing a real broadsheet or tabloid means a file goes out to a print lab — this page says so plainly rather than claiming a print job never leaves. This is a for-profit vendor, not a charity, and nothing here is dressed up as a charitable gift. There are no invented issue counts, school counts, or attributed quotes here, and no competitor is named.