Student newspaper - Definition

A student newspaper is a newspaper run by university or high or middle school students that covers local and in particular school/university news.

Working for one's school high school newspaper is sometimes an extracurricular activity but often a Journalism class is taught at the school, in which students learn about the journalistic profession and also produce the paper. Some schools have a basic class in which students only learn about newpapering, and a class that produces the newspaper.

See also

• Journalism
• List of college newspapers
• Newspaper

External Links

• ASNE High School Journalism Initiative (http://www.highschooljournalism.org/)
• Student Press Law Center (http://www.splc.org/)
• Looksmart - K-12 Student Media (http://search.looksmart.com/p/browse/us1/us317836/us317912/us53720/us10036945) and College News (http://search.looksmart.com/p/browse/us1/us317836/us317912/us10012545/us53729/us54077/) directory categories
• Open Directory Project - Student Newspapers (http://dmoz.org/News/Newspapers/Student/) directory category
• Yahoo! - K-12 School Newspapers (http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/K_12/Newspapers/Individual_School_Papers/) and College & University Newspapers (http://dir.yahoo.com/news_and_media/college_and_university/newspapers/) directory categories

Example Usage of newspaper