New high school weekly, MASH, debuts in Chicago
We told you a while back about Mash, a new weekly tab hitting Chicago-area high schools this fall, featuring copy written by and photos taken by area students. The project is under the umbrellal of the Chicago RedEye.
And we told you about the designer — Ball State grad Sara Mahoney — who was hired to put it all together.
This afternoon in Vegas, RedEye design director Chris Courtney is showing pages from the new publication:
Mash will use software — called communityQ, developed by Bill Ostendorf’s Creative Circle company — that allows kids at Chicago area schools to post stories and photos to a common web site. The RedEye folks will use that content to pull together a weekly, 10,000-circulation paper to distribute in the schools.
The software allows kids to port over material from their MySpace and Facebook pages and to comment on other students’ work. At the end of the school year, students can pick-and-choose which content they like and publish that in their own yearbook supplement, which can be saved electronically or printed in hard or softcover.
The Chicago project will encompass 110 area high schools, Bill told me.
These pages have a crisp, clean look and a jaunty feel, not unlike Norfolk’s Link. Here’s hoping the kids in Chicago eat ‘em up.
September 23rd, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Our school ( Banner Academy West) affiliated with Chicago Public Schools at 6114 West North Ave, Chicago, Il. 60639. Phone #(773) 622-6954, would like to get the Mash magazine for our high school students. Our enrollment is 80 students.
Thank you,
Mr. Andrew Zimmerman
Banner School Teacher