Game History & Players

We’re very lucky to have run several different versions of the Journalism.net journalism game. In our first game, where players published under the Wisconsin Science Journal masthead, middle-school-aged players took on the role of science reporters for 12 hours during the spring of 2004. During the summers of 2005 and 2006, Science.net players of the same age worked the science beat by interviewing scientists, gathering research, and writing stories for 45 hours.

In a related game, high-school-aged players wrote for the South Madison Times, role-playing as civic journalists for 45 hours. This spring, Chicago charter school students will play a similar version, interviewing neighborhood leaders, investigating issues that are important in their home community, and publishing the Neighborhood.net newsmagazine.