The purpose of the Urban High School Newspaper Project, begun in 1997, was to provide support to start, revive or bolster high school newspapers at schools with a large concentration of students of color, primarily in urban areas. The project resulted in a booklet, In the Beginning, which is available as a PDF or html document on this site.

The Newspaper Fund is no longer accepting applications for this program. Similar projects encouraging professional newspapers to get involved with school publications are underwritten by the Newspaper Association of America and the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Go to highschooljournalism.org or NAA Foundation Students and Newspapers: New Partnerships for Growth for more information on these programs.