VGNews is the school newspaper. Plenty happens here that's worth writing down and almost never gets written down: the game decided in the last thirty seconds, the bell schedule change nobody explained. That stuff lives in a group chat for a week and then it's gone. Here it gets reported, and a Spartan's name goes on it.
What separates this from a bulletin board is that somebody answers for what runs. A reporter drafts a story and submits it. An editor reads it and either sends it back with notes or approves it, and only then does it publish. The faculty adviser is the accountable adult behind the whole outlet, the way a real paper has one. That chain is why a byline is worth carrying here: a named person wrote the piece, and an editor read it before you did.
Stories file under sections, the same desks papers have always had. News for what happened, Sports for the games, Opinion for the arguments, Features for the longer reads, Multimedia when the piece is mostly photo and video. The adviser can add a desk or retire one as the outlet grows, so the sections fit this school instead of a template.
A story is rarely only words. It can carry a lead photo, inline images if it's really a photo essay, and its own video when the piece is a clip. Uploads stay private while they're checked, so a photo appears only after a person has looked at it, and video works the same way. Nothing reaches a reader that nobody has stood behind.
Who gets to read a piece is the reporter's call, story by story. A feature the school is proud of, or a result worth sharing past campus, can go public, which means anyone can read it and a search engine can find it. The rest is the school talking to itself, and reading it takes a Vista Grande sign-in. The front page sorts itself out for whoever is looking. Signed out, you get the public paper. Signed in, you get all of it.
Putting your name on something is the part people underestimate. You get the credit and you also get the corrections, which is the trade every reporter has ever made. The editing feels slow when you want your story up now, and it's also the only reason the paper means anything when it says a thing happened. Four years from now the group chats will be gone. This will still be here.