For schools and classrooms
A real publication your students can run, for free.
Who this is for
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.
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.
A place to publish essays, research summaries, or faculty writing, with a built-in citation generator and a space for primary source documents.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Students see what goes into putting a site online: a domain, a secure connection, a feed for readers, a listing for search engines.
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
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.
- The full documentation
- Community Q&A in GitHub Discussions
- Reporting bugs or asking for new features
- 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
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.
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 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
Install, preview, and publish. Under ten minutes for someone comfortable with a terminal.
A step-by-step way to get a publication online using only a browser — no command line at all.
Ten small tasks to tidy up the site before readers see it.
Mention your school or organisation when you write and you'll get the lower rate.
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.