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We made it really, really simple for high school and college newspapers to publish online, for free.
Anyone can create an account and follow creditable news sources and discover popular stories written by journalists from around the country.
Creditable news from verified sources - Unlike popular social media and blogging platforms, only verified Papers can published stories on Scripbe.
Readers promote which stories are important. The most popular stories rise to the front page.
Algorithms continuously rank the most influential contributors and papers on the front page.
Austin-based Scripbe, Inc. was launched in January 2015 with solitary purpose: to connect every student newspaper together. Anyone can sign up for Scripbe and follow stories from verified news teams around the nation. As a modern social news platform, readers can promote news, journalists, and papers to the national front page of Scripbe.
Changing how news is consumed and created, Scripbe’s user-centered design is built upon a mobile-first infrastructure, allowing users to access content from mobile phones, tablets and desktops. Scripbe gives news teams the ability to create, collaborate, and publish stories from any device in real-time.
Our Story
You often read stories of entrepreneurs who came up with their ideas over dinner with friends. Not us. You even hear those feel good stories of college roommates, and best friends who started the company in a dorm room. Not us either. We came together because we believe the high school newspaper is worth saving.
In 2013, the idea came to us after reading a news article that summarized how constant educational budget cuts are challenging high schools to decide whether or not to continue having a printed paper, whether they could afford an online hosted paper, or even cut their journalism departments altogether. The budget challenge is not unique to high school newspapers, but we believe that you can certainly begin the revolution that changes the journalism industry forever. It was exploring all the “why’s” that were at the root of these challenges that led us to the idea for Scripbe, an online, social news site for all the schools.
Our team has built technology for the titans of industry, but this technology has always benefited business. We wanted to do something different, not just another cool way to send photos. We wanted to leverage the power of social technology and alter it in a way that can motivate, inspire, and encourage students to participate in journalism, and at the same time help teachers and schools refocus on journalism instead of the budget. Our vision is to connect every high school newspaper together.
Anyone can create an account and follow creditable news sources and discover popular stories written by journalists from around the country.
Creditable news from verified sources - Unlike popular social media and blogging platforms, only verified Papers can published stories on Scripbe.
Readers promote which stories are important. The most popular stories rise to the front page.
Algorithms continuously rank the most influential contributors and papers on the front page.
Austin-based Scripbe, Inc. was launched in January 2015 with solitary purpose: to connect every student newspaper together. Anyone can sign up for Scripbe and follow stories from verified news teams around the nation. As a modern social news platform, readers can promote news, journalists, and papers to the national front page of Scripbe.
Changing how news is consumed and created, Scripbe’s user-centered design is built upon a mobile-first infrastructure, allowing users to access content from mobile phones, tablets and desktops. Scripbe gives news teams the ability to create, collaborate, and publish stories from any device in real-time.
Our Story
You often read stories of entrepreneurs who came up with their ideas over dinner with friends. Not us. You even hear those feel good stories of college roommates, and best friends who started the company in a dorm room. Not us either. We came together because we believe the high school newspaper is worth saving.
In 2013, the idea came to us after reading a news article that summarized how constant educational budget cuts are challenging high schools to decide whether or not to continue having a printed paper, whether they could afford an online hosted paper, or even cut their journalism departments altogether. The budget challenge is not unique to high school newspapers, but we believe that you can certainly begin the revolution that changes the journalism industry forever. It was exploring all the “why’s” that were at the root of these challenges that led us to the idea for Scripbe, an online, social news site for all the schools.
Our team has built technology for the titans of industry, but this technology has always benefited business. We wanted to do something different, not just another cool way to send photos. We wanted to leverage the power of social technology and alter it in a way that can motivate, inspire, and encourage students to participate in journalism, and at the same time help teachers and schools refocus on journalism instead of the budget. Our vision is to connect every high school newspaper together.
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United States, Texas, Austin