Students in a journalism class at Lockwood High School said it best recently when asked why community news is more important now than ever.
It’s how we celebrate each other, they said. It’s how we keep track of what’s going on in our community, and it’s how we keep each other honest.
To help students stay informed, the Billings Gazette’s News For Students program is now providing digital subscriptions for Billings-area teachers and their students. Educators and students at any school in the Billings area are eligible.
The Billings Gazette’s subscription for classrooms includes one year of complimentary unlimited digital access to billingsgazette.com, the daily Billings Gazette E-edition that shows all the pages of that day’s print edition, the Billings Gazette app and the Billings Gazette archive of more than 2 million stories. This also includes coverage of 406MTSports, Lee Enterprises’ statewide sports website.
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The News For Students program allows teachers and students to stay current with the latest coverage of local news, sports, arts, entertainment, and perspectives in editorials, letters to the editor, and opinion columns written by Montanans.
The Billings Gazette — along with other news organizations in Lee Enterprises — is offering the program to connect teachers and students with local journalism and local journalists. This program allows them to read and see the work of local journalists — the reporters, photographers, and editors who live in the community — who strive to produce original reporting and in-depth coverage of the most relevant topics.
Educators must sign up first. Then students will be connected to their accounts and get unlimited digital access. To sign up, go online to go.billingsgazette.com/NFS.
The goal is to instill the importance of local journalism in a world of misinformation and declining media literacy. The Billings Gazette is spearheading this initiative into schools so teachers and students can be informed and engaged with our community.
