Welcome

Welcome to the home site for the Interscholastic Online News Network.

The Interscholastic Online News Network (ISONN) is a set of individuals, academic programs, high schools and professional organizations dedicated to connecting student web journalists and high school news websites and to advancing education in web and online journalism at the scholastic level.

The network is part of the Intercollegiate Online News Network (ICONN), a non-profit (501-c-3) organization.

ISONN – A vital and growing network of high school news websites


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Find out more

• If you want to know more about ISONN, visit our About page.

•  If you are affiliated with a news website interested in joining the network, you may do so by filling out the form on our Join page. ISONN has no membership or entry fees.

• If you are seeking information about the JeffersonNet content management system that drives many of the websites in the ISONN news-advertising network, check on this page on the site.

Member sites of ISONN agree to share their originally produced content with other member sites and also agree to give appropriate credit to the originating site.

 

ISONN NewsStream launched

The ISONN NewsStream, the news service of the Intercollegiate Online News Network, has been launch and is now in full operation. The service will provide fresh, relevant content for ICONN news websites on a regular basic and also offer an opportunity for collegiate journalists to have their work appear on other ICONN sites. READ MORE . . .

Fall workshop lineup

Join us this fall for our online journalism workshops from the Interscholastic Online News Network (ISONN).

Just like our summer workshops, you won’t have to leave home to do it. It’s all online.  ISONN and the University of Tennessee are offering four online workshops this fall:

  • Teaching Feature Writing, Oct. 9-12
  • Managing your News Website, Oct. 23-27
  • Basics of Photojournalism, Nov. 6-9
  • Teaching Sports Reporting, Nov. 13-17

Registration for each workshop is $15. Sign up for three and you get the fourth one free.

More information about these workshops is on the JN-21.com workshops page.

Registration is limited so sign up today at the Going Online registration page


State of the Network, September 2011

For a comprehensive look at the Intercollegiate Online News Network, take a look at the State of the Network, September 2011 report.

Here are some of the highlights:

  • JeffersonNet. In October 2010, we achieved a founding goal of the organization: Setting up a system that could create and support news websites for any school, course, program or campus entity that want them. The system is the WordPress-based JeffersonNet.
  • Growth in membership. The number of news website that are members of ICONN — and its high school subsidiary, the Interscholastic Online News Network — continues to increase. ICONN has more than 30 campus sites as members, 18 of which are supported by the JeffersonNet content management system. On the ISONN side, we have 46 member sites, 42 of which are supported by JeffersonNet.
  • Educational outreach. The Going Online workshops held at the University of Tennessee over the past two years morphed into something new this past summer — online workshops. Their success has opened up new possibilities for teacher training at both the collegiate and scholastic level. Our educational site, JN-21.com, has more information.
  • Conferences. In addition to the workshops noted above, ICONN held its third annual conference in March. The conference was hosted by the University of Georgia Grady School of Journalism. Next year’s conference will be March 29-30 at the First Amendment Center in Nashville, Tenn.
  • ICONN/ISONN NewsStreams. The idea of using the work of individual member sites as the basis for a collegiate news wire formed and has been put into practice this year. And we have done the same thing on the scholastic side with our ISONN NewsStream. Check these out: ICONNNewsStream and ISONNNewsStream.
  • Strengthening the organization. We have taken a number of steps to strengthen the internal organization, including application for 501-c-3 non-profit status, the building of an advertising network, and the submission of several grant proposals.