A plan for staying visible during summer and extended school breaks instead of going dark for months at a time.

Freelancing and Stringer Work While Running the Student Paper

How student editors can take outside freelance or stringer assignments without creating conflicts with their own newsroom.

Running a Multi-Week Investigative Project Without Losing the Thread

A practical system for tracking sources, documents, and timelines when a story stretches across several weeks instead of one deadline.

How a small student staff can launch and sustain an email newsletter without turning it into unpaid extra homework.

A plain-language guide to the federal law that forces colleges to disclose crime data and issue campus safety alerts.

A working standard for when to name a person in an arrest or crime story, and when to hold the name until the facts are clearer.

How to build an explainer piece that walks a confused reader through a complicated school issue without talking down to them.

Rules for staffers’ personal social media that protect the newsroom’s credibility without policing their private lives.

A working introduction to grids, hierarchy, and white space for staffers designing pages without a design background.

A working policy for handling copied text, recycled quotes, and unattributed borrowing before it becomes a public problem.