Project Broadsheet is free to use, for anything, with no account and no limits. That makes it an unusual fit for schools: your students learn on a real, working publication — the same kind of setup a professional outlet might use — and the school doesn't pay a subscription to run it.

Who this is for

Student papers
Campus publications

A proper home for the paper, without a yearly software bill. Students end up owning the site and the archive outright — nothing to transfer if the programme changes hands.

Journalism classes
Running a class publication

A real publication your class writes for over a term. Drafts get reviewed before they go live, corrections and sources are kept on the record, and every change is saved.

Media studies
Research and coursework

A place to publish essays, research summaries, or faculty writing, with a built-in citation generator and a space for primary source documents.

Nonprofit newsrooms
Mission-driven outlets

Community news groups, investigative nonprofits, and small public-interest publishers. No cut taken out of donations or subscriptions, and no subscription cost when funding's tight.

Independent writers
A home for your own work

Freelancers and essayists who'd rather publish to their own site than post into someone else's feed. The writing, the design, and the reader list all stay with you.

Journalism students
Your own portfolio

Publish under your own name, on your own site, before you graduate. The site is yours to keep after the course ends.


What students pick up along the way

Running a publication on Project Broadsheet teaches a handful of habits that carry straight into working newsrooms and most digital writing jobs.

Habit 1
Saving their work properly

Every article is saved with a date and a note about what changed. Students learn to track their own work, look back at earlier versions, and collaborate without overwriting each other.

Habit 2
Thinking about a piece as more than prose

A finished article has a headline, a byline, a section, a date, tags, maybe a series it belongs to. Students learn to think about those pieces deliberately.

Habit 3
Doing the small, important things right

Corrections go on the article. Sources are linked. Responses to other writing are tracked. These are built into how the site works, not optional extras.

Habit 4
Publishing to the open web

Students see what goes into putting a site online: a domain, a secure connection, a feed for readers, a listing for search engines.

Habit 5
Privacy and access, by default

The site is fast, works on slow connections, works on a screen reader, and doesn't track readers across the web. Students see that these aren't extras — they're how the site is built.


If you want help

A lower rate for schools and nonprofits

Schools, universities, and registered nonprofits pay $75 per hour instead of the usual $150. That covers setup, a training session for staff or students, and any custom work. Mention it when you get in touch.

Free
On your own
$75 per hour
With a hand from me
  • Getting the site set up for your programme
  • A training session for staff or students (recorded if you'd like)
  • A custom layout, section, or workflow built for you
  • Ongoing help when something needs attention

A few ways it gets used

A student newspaper
Shared between reporters and editors

The paper has its own copy of the project in a shared student-organisation account. Reporters write in their own drafts. Editors review and approve each piece before it goes live. Every version of every article is saved, which makes the whole process visible — a useful thing to teach.

A reporting class
One publication per student

Each student sets up their own copy and runs a small publication for the term. Assignments are just articles saved to the site. The instructor reviews them the same way an editor would review work at a paper. Everything stays theirs at the end of the course.

A year-long capstone
One publication for the cohort

A cohort of students runs a single publication together over one or two terms. They take on editorial roles — editor, section editor, reporter, photographer — and the publication lives on a real domain. The school can keep it going after the course ends.


Where to start

Questions about fitting this into a course?

Write to me. I'm happy to talk through how it would fit your programme or answer anything about the setup. Every message is read by me personally.