On recent visit to Tabor Academy’s campus we were introduced to the school’s daily publishing vehicle The Log Blog.

We love the concept.

If I were a betting soul, I’d put my money on the notion that The Log Blog represents the future of school publishing.

Take many of the routine publishing functions and voices traditionally found throughout the school- events calendar, news, sports, photography, chapel talks, and podcasts. Bring them together in a single web based vehicle. Give the project leadership in the form the school Communications Director, make the work an official school function, and set the students to work.

Tabor has made the ultimate boarding school commitment to The Log Blog by assigning faculty supervision and time to the project. It’s an official afternoon activity just as athletics, art, etc. With time, resources, and the blog format, The Log Blog is, essentially, a continually refreshed community newspaper with all the parts of school life covered.

If you made me editor, I’d add occasional longer feature articles that require some time and resources and, voila, full coverage of the community.

I even went so far as to wonder aloud; ‘do they still publish a student newspaper?’

This may be only The Log Blog’s second year, but, in our minds, you see a living school newspaper hosting a variety of voices, timely and directly relevant to the entire community- faculty, students, alumni, and friends. The Log Blog gives readers a reason and way to stay connected to Tabor’s daily narrative and, from an admission perspective, a clear window into the school.