Welcome To The Sagebrush Online Newspaper
Welcome To The Sagebrush Online Newspaper
Two Sony internal hard drive video cameras. Four Canon digital cameras. Ten Macintosh computers. All new additions to the newsroom at Holbrook High School courtesy of a partnership with Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and a selective grant from the Stardust Foundation. “Students will use essentially the same tools as students enrolled in journalism at Cronkite” says Mrs. Novell, an instructor of Web Journalism at HHS. Although the equipment will be used in the output of the high school’s established print newspaper, The Sagebrush, the Stardust grant is aimed specifically at the development of a student-run online newspaper. This new focus offers many benefits, including giving students more experience with 21st century communication technology and allowing all HHS stakeholders to access up-to-date news about the school itself, according to instructors Mrs. Caffey and Mrs. Novell. Though the equipment and resources offered through the grant are exceptional, the most exciting part of the partnership to five-year newspaper instructor Mrs. Caffey is the fact that The Sagebrush will be moving into cyberspace. “To publish a regular print edition costs around $500,” said Mrs. Caffey. “Publishing online allows [the students] to do so many more stories, simply because the cost is essentially nothing.”
Cyberspace: Next Frontier For HHS Newspaper
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