About Us

The Free Press Online is the student-run online publication of the Free Press, Lawrence Free State’s newsmagazine. Located in Lawrence, Kansas, The Free Press is staffed by 67 devoted students and advised by Jared Shuff. The publication is updated daily with published content including stories, videos, recordings, photo galleries and infographics. In addition, select stories are published in The Free Press newsmagazine each month.

The online publication is run by Online Editor-in-Chief Baila Love and Online Managing Editors Odelia Colvin and Kinley Gigous. Each story published on our website is reviewed by each of these editors.

If you’d like to learn more about the students that produce our content, you can visit our staff profiles.

If you’re interested in joining staff, feel free to visit our Join Staff page.

If you’re interested in advertising with our publication, you can visit our Advertise page.

For any issues concerning our content, please review our Online Policy before taking further action.

If you have any other comments, questions or concerns, feel free to contact us.

Mission: Curious Free State journalists will amplify voices, gather superior sources and tell pivotal stories of our community in a visually creative way in order to serve our audience and foster quality scholastic journalism in Lawrence, Kansas.

Affiliates:
The Budget
Kansas Scholastic Press Association