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FHNtoday.com is the student news website of FHN Media, the student-run publications department at the Francis Howell North High School. Advised by Aaron Manfull, who oversees the sports, newspaper and video staffs, along with Jordyn Kiel, who oversees the yearbook and photography staffs, FHN media has been covering its community through different mediums for over two decades.

With the launch of FHNtoday.com in 2009, the publications staff was presented with a whole new platform to present news to its viewers in a fast, timely matter. From covering bomb threats to school dances, the website has benefitted the staff as a whole in achieving its mission of providing news fast. In 2013, students on staff advocated for a secondary website dedicated to sports coverage. The idea grew and became FHNgameday.com. Providing sports previews and recaps, along with opinion columns and up-to-date sports scores, FHNgameday is an FHN athlete’s paradise.

FHNgameday is also run by the sports staff, created in 2022. Sports staff oversees livestream for various sports, as well as the creation of hype and journalistic videos. Writers on this staff create stories for FHNgameday.com, as well as the North Star newsmagazine. Designers on this staff design the sports section of the North Star.

Released almost every six weeks, depending on the schedule editors set at the beginning of the year, the North Star newsmagazine provides a look at upcoming and recently occurred events around FHN. The North Star staff also provides a comprehensive overview of different issues surrounding not only the school and community, but the country and even the globe as a whole. The North Star is distributed for free to all students in their first hour.

The Excalibur yearbook is the historical record-keeper for the school. Documenting events as they happen, the yearbook staff compounds small and big events alike into one book which is distributed after production during registration days before the start of the next school year.

FHNtodayTV and photography staffs work with the other three staffs to help provide complete multimedia story packages to help the audience understand the story in multiple ways. Photographers attend school events to document still shots of students being themselves, while the video staff performs the same process in video form. Both of them compile different ways to tell the story to the reader.

All staffs operate out of rooms 1224, 1230 and an adjoining conference room as well as a video studio and photo studio. Each staff is also bound to and protected by the Editorial Policy, which governs the way FHN Media can cover and publish using its various mediums.