GAME ON: Journalism, life skills, news literacy.

ASNE's my.hsj.org is a free Web-hosting service for school news organizations.

We supply the Web space and an easy to use content management system. You supply the content -- stories, photos, video and more. No HTML or coding skills needed. And it looks great!

We’ve enjoyed helping thousands of schools develop an online media presence these past 12 years. But technology and times have changed. There are so many more options available to schools now so as of September 15, 2013, my.hsj.org will be discontinued and we will no longer host school news publications.

We encourage you to continue your online news publication and we are here to help during this transition.  There are many great options for you to consider.  The Journalism Education Association provides excellent information on digital media resources and developing student news websites at jea.org.

If you’d like a bit more help, there are many companies that will assist you in developing a website for your student news publication.

- School Newspapers Online helps schools develop a student news website, hosts the website and provides unlimited technical support for an annual fee.

- iHigh.com can help you build a multi-media student news website with live-streaming capability and provide you with unlimited technical support free of charge. Contact Tom Bergeron at tom.bergeron@ihigh.com or 973-294-4863.

- The Interscholastic Online News Network (ISONN) is an association of high school news websites, teachers, administrators and professionals who seek to help scholastic journalism improve in today’s converged environment. A main purpose of the association is to encourage the startup of news websites at high schools and middle schools. ISONN is a part of the Intercollegiate Online News Network (ICONN). ISONN hosts news websites for high schools across the country and currently does not charge for set-up or hosting a site. To sign up for website hosting, go to http://bit.ly/ISONNmembership. You should have your own domain name, which can be purchased from a variety of sources (such as GoDaddy.com) usually for less than $10 a year. Fill out that form completely. Your site can be created and turned over to you fairly quickly.

The service offers professional journalists' stories, photos, graphics, illustrations and web content -- material from daily newspapers and MCT's own journalists -- to high school news organizations. College news organizations play hundreds of dollars a year for this service.

my.hsj.org gives out CASH PRIZES every month to the five school media organizations that we host online that generate the highest monthly traffic to their sites between the beginning of the month and the end of the month.

We seek to establish partnerships between news organizations and individual high schools or school districts. The immediate goal is to create high school media outlets where they don't currently exist or dramatically improve existing ones. Partnerships are initiated by a news organization, which seeks out a school in its community to mentor.