Help your students build a healthy news habit.

Help your students build a healthy news habit.

See how your students engage with credible news, build daily reading habits, and track progress — all in one place

See how your students engage with credible news, build daily reading habits, and track progress — all in one place

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Named a 2025 News Literacy Resource of the Year by the National Association for Media Literacy

Some of our educational partners

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How it works

Students use the Newsreel app with interactive stories, polls, and quizzes that build media literacy habits.

Students use the Newsreel app with interactive stories, polls, and quizzes that build media literacy habits.

Students use the Newsreel app with interactive stories, polls, and quizzes that build media literacy habits.

Use the Dashboard to track class streaks, quiz scores, and polling insights at a glance.

Use the Dashboard to track class streaks, quiz scores, and polling insights at a glance.

Use the Dashboard to track class streaks, quiz scores, and polling insights at a glance.

Create your own by assigning stories or using AI to generate lesson plans around the news.

Create your own by assigning stories or using AI to generate lesson plans around the news.

Create your own by assigning stories or using AI to generate lesson plans around the news.

What students see

What educators see

Newsreel is always free for individual teachers and students.
Institutions can upgrade to unlock unlimited stories, analytics, and lesson-planning tools.

Newsreel is always free for individual teachers and students.
Institutions can upgrade to unlock unlimited stories, analytics, and lesson-planning tools.

Why educators love Newsreel

Why educators love Newsreel

Fun for students, easy for teachers

Fun for students, easy for teachers

No training, setup, or prep required

Feels like social media, but built around credible journalism

Perfect 10-minute “Do Now” or daily warm-up

Strengthens reading comprehension and civic understanding in-class and at-home

It’s perfect for what I teach. I used to assign the New York Times, but Newsreel just works better.

Tim Riley, Journalism Professor
Emerson College

It’s perfect for what I teach. I used to assign the New York Times, but Newsreel just works better.

Tim Riley, Journalism Professor
Emerson College

It’s perfect for what I teach. I used to assign the New York Times, but Newsreel just works better.

Tim Riley, Journalism Professor
Emerson College

Student Overview

View your class roster with key metrics at a glance. Sort by performance, identify top performers and students who need support.

View your class roster with key metrics at a glance. Sort by performance, identify top performers and students who need support.

Track activity

Track activity

Track activity

Quiz accuracy

Quiz accuracy

Quiz accuracy

Benchmark comparison

Benchmark comparison

Benchmark comparison

Streak monitoring

Streak monitoring

Streak monitoring

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Newsreel AI

Ask questions in plain English and get instant insights about student engagement, interests, and performance.

Ask questions in plain English and get instant insights about student engagement, interests, and performance.

"What story categories are my students most interested in?"

"Export quiz performance data as CSV"

"Show me completion trends over the past month"