Newsreel Classroom · Assignment builder
For grades 6–12 & college
Stories by award-winning journalists, turned into assignments with reading levels, quiz, and poll built in, finished in any browser or on a phone.
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What you can do
A 10-minute opener or a full period. Fully customizable.
Your homepage shows today's stories. One click opens the builder, and every option has a default.
Original as published, or with a Grade 8 or Grade 5 support layer. We never rewrite the journalist.
A quiz and poll ship with every story. No prep.
A turned-in count per assignment, with quiz scores as they come in.
One QR code turns any story into a class-wide debate.
Journalists write every story. AI never does.
Why it works
So we built something better.
Your homepage. The same stories your students see today.
How it works
Educator accounts and class codes. Students join on any device. No emails, no rosters.
Pick a story, set the level, assign. It lands on their home screen with a due date.
Turned-in counts and scores land live. Nudge the stragglers, move on.
Proven in 200+ classrooms
"I feel like I finally have a resource to help my students sift through the noise and find the informational signal they've been searching for."
Chris Rotolo · Journalism & ELA teacher, North Brunswick Township High School, NJ
We ran an 11-week pilot at Penn State with 277 students. Here's what happened:
11-WEEK PENN STATE PILOT · 277 COLLEGE STUDENTS · USAGE DATA + END-OF-PILOT SURVEY
Straight talk
It's the number one question we get, and here's our honest answer: everyone's biased. So instead of pretending otherwise, we're radical about transparency. Every story carries a real byline, every voice gets a vetted bio, and an editor reviews every story before it publishes.
When a story is contested, we skip the left, right, and center labels. They're simplistic. We show how the story is actually being argued and who's agreeing with whom, across the news and the social feeds where students actually get it. Then your class picks the arguments apart.
Plans
Five tiers priced by seats, from a single classroom to a whole campus. Book a demo, get a quote the same day.
EVERY PLAN INCLUDES
Just you and one class? Book the same demo. Single-classroom starter plans exist.
Not ready for a call? Get a sample assignment and pricing info by email →
No meeting required
Drop your info and we'll send a real story at all three reading levels with its quiz and poll, how pricing works for a school your size, and a printable administrator brief covering privacy, balance, accessibility, and AI. In your inbox within one business day.
Your homepage shows today's stories. Click assign, choose a reading level, toggle read, quiz, and poll, pick a due date, done. Students see it on their home screen, and scores land in your dashboard as each student finishes.
The biggest stories across politics, world news, money, science, and culture, the same mix a general newsroom covers. Editors choose the stack.
Both. Today's stories lead, and the full archive comes with every plan, so when your unit calls for a story from March, assign it the same way.
Yes. Newsreel runs in any browser, on Chromebooks, laptops, or tablets. The phone app is for schools that allow it, and for reading at home.
No. Lower levels keep the original reporting and add plain-language help and a built-in dictionary. Striving readers work with the same journalism as everyone else.
Yes. Use pick students to assign the same story at different support levels. Everyone reads the same journalism and takes the same quiz.
An annual license priced by enrollment; bigger licenses cost less per student served. Book a demo for a real number the same day. We work with school POs and provide the quote, W-9, and sole-source paperwork your business office needs.
Today's news written by journalists. Reading levels that support the original story instead of rewriting it. Contested stories shown as they're being argued, no left/right labels. No scroll, ads, or algorithm.
Quiz questions use C3 Framework and state ELA standards language, and every plan includes teacher guides and lesson plans. Ask in the demo for a mapping to your state's framework.
Yes. Built to WCAG 2.1 AA, with a VPAT available on request for your procurement file.
Scores live in your dashboard per assignment and per student; export is on the roadmap this school year.
Runs alongside Google Classroom with no setup: no rostering, no sync, no IT ticket. Scores live in your Newsreel dashboard. Tell us in the demo if a direct integration matters.
Every story is written by a human journalist. AI drafts quiz questions and powers the dictionary, disclosed in our AI use policy. No ads, no selling student data.
One teacher or a whole district. Book a demo: same-day quote, live classroom within the week.