About

Mission:

The Riverside | Brookfield Clarion is Riverside | Brookfield High School’s only student run newspaper. It exists to accomplish these goals:

• To document daily student life.
• To inform students and staff.
• To encourage open dialogue.
• To explore controversial issues fairly.
• To uphold ethical standards and the truth.
• To examine how world and community issues affect the school.
• To publicize school accomplishments.
• To feature unique students, staff, activities, and events.
• To teach Clarion members fundamentals of journalism in action.
• To entertain our readers.

History:

The Clarion began with the inception of the school in 1908.  While the staff still produces a hard copy newspaper, it migrated onto the web to become a 90% web-based publication in 2007.  Decisions motivating the change were to be more timely, more cost-effective, more environmentally friendly, and more in-line with current trends in real world journalism.

The first version of the online Clarion was produced using hand-coded HTML and Adobe Dreamweaver, but the paper moved onto the School Newspapers Online CMS backbone in the 2008-2009 school year.

The Clarion won an NSPA Online Pacemaker Award in 2010.  It received a First Class NSPA ranking with three marks of distinction in 2009-2010, an All-American Ranking in 2010-2011, and a First Class Ranking in 2011-2012.