Using a new template available online from today that comes complete with the JEP masthead, we are inviting young budding writers, investigators, storytellers and artists to deliver their own front page news to the community.
Stories can be based on real life events or issues, inspired by the real world or made up entirely using their imagination, and the template has room for a headline, picture and the article itself.
We are then inviting creators to send us a photo of themselves with their front page, together with their full name and age, by email to together@jerseyeveningpost.com, or to share it on our social media channels.
In the coming weeks a selection of those images sent in will be published in the pages of the JEP as part of our Jersey Together campaign, which aims to celebrate the Island community during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and beyond.
The template will also remain live over the summer holidays.
JEP assistant editor Lucy Stephenson, who came up with the idea of creating the template, said it was hoped the activity would give local children another idea to enjoy at a time that has been challenging for both young people and their families.
‘I know from my own experience as a parent that after nine weeks of homeschooling and with the summer holidays looming, potentially without any summer clubs or grandparents and carers to help, any new ideas and inspiration is very welcome,’ she said.
‘Our journalists also regularly go into local schools to talk to students about what it is like to work at a newspaper and obviously that isn’t possible at the moment. So we came up with this alternative.’
She added: ‘We hope children enjoy using this template to create their own JEP front page and, who knows, perhaps some of them may even end up in lockdown scrapbooks to look back on in years to come – I know ours will.’
To print the template visit https://bit.ly/jeppage.
