National Newspaper Week is being recognized across the country this week, highlighting the importance of the right to free press and access to public information, and at Bellefontaine High School, students also have reason to celebrate with the return of their school’s student newspaper, Hi-Life, to circulation once again.
Copies of Bellefontaine High School’s student newspaper, Hi-Life, from the 1940s and 1950s are pictured this week in the newspaper’s classroom. (PHOTO | BHS HI-LIFE)
Creative minds have been at work in a BHS classroom turned into a newsroom, where the student newspaper staff have been conducting interviews, writing, taking photos, editing and preparing pages for a new digital format of the newspaper. The class members have conducted several test runs of the paper, and the first official edition will be released Monday, with plans for publication every other week.
Bellefontaine High School Hi-Life newspaper staff members collaborate on their first edition of the newspaper for the 2019-20 school year, which is slated to be released Monday via the district’s website, www.bellefontaine.k12.oh.us. (PHOTO | BHS HI-LIFE)
Newspaper instructor and BHS English teacher Chris Miller said he has enjoyed seeing the enthusiasm of his students toward the publication of Hi-Life, which has been absent from the school for several years.
“I’ve been very proud of the students’ work so far.
They have shown that they are willing to put in the work to pitch article ideas and set up interviews outside of school,” Miller said in an e-mail.
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