About Newsmaker

What is your class going to produce this year?

New for 2010, Newsmaker is the Guardian’s newspaper creation website for all school subjects and ages.

At the touch of a button, newsmaker turns your classroom of students into a buzzing newsroom of editors and journalists working together to produce a professional-looking newspaper.

Newsmaker goes way beyond other products that simply teach students how to make newspapers. The stimulating interface pulls students into the buzz of a real life newsroom situation.

This highly contextual experience means students:

• - Work collaboratively
• - Develop their opinions
• - Effectively edit their own and other's work
• - Write for a purpose
• - Raise their expectations
• - Get a taste of real working practices

An extensive range of broadsheet and tabloid templates developed by real newspaper designers, and our photo placing and resizing tool result in a highly professional product which puts ordinary desktop publishing applications in the shade.

The website can be used for all subjects and areas of the curriculum. And the fun doesn't stop with the students! This flexible resource can also be used to create stunning headteacher, school and PTFA newsletters with perfect ease!