To teach journalism students how to run a publicly accessible community newspaper – or "hyperlocal" – by creating one to serve the poor, immigrant area of the downtown behind MacEwan's campus. The goal is to educate while also providing a service to our neighbouring community.

They will need to:

• Identify news stories of interest to the community
• Gather information, including conducting interviews with live sources
• Transform that information into a narrative that is compelling, as well as accurate and truthful
• Take pictures and collect video to complement and illustrate those narratives
• Edit the stories for accuracy, fairness, consistency, grammar and style
• Assemble the photos and stories onto a web page using WordPress, and write the headlines and photo captions to complete the package

I act as the publisher and editor-in-chief: teacher, advisor, mentor and last line of defence against mistakes making it onto the published page.