One person runs the paper and everyone else answers an email. This is one week of The Geller Yeller, seen from both sides.
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Nothing to install and no password. It all happens in your email.
Before each issue, everyone on the paper gets a short email with one question in it, like what they’ve been watching or who made them laugh. It’s a different question each time, and nobody has to answer it.
Write back with a few lines, a photo, or both. You can also forward the moments as they happen: the recital, the big game, the birthday party. The paper’s address is at the bottom of every email it sends.
A minute later you get a note saying it arrived, with a clipping of how it might run, set in the paper’s own type. The editors can still change it before the next issue.
On the day the family picked, everyone gets the issue by email: the top story with its photo, the other headlines, and a link to the whole paper. Each person’s link is their own, so there’s no signing in.
The link opens the full paper on any phone or computer. One tap on Large print makes everything bigger, and it stays that way next time. Reply to the email to answer back, and your letter can run in the next issue.
A few minutes before each issue, on a phone or a computer.
Name the paper, choose how often it comes out and on which day, and add the people who should get it. Their invitations go out with the first issue, so nobody opens an empty paper. All of it can be changed later.
Before it goes out, every editor gets the draft. Swap a headline, have a story rewritten in another voice, fix a line yourself or hold the whole issue. Approve it and the Passed for press stamp goes on. If nobody holds it, it goes out on time.
Beside the draft, editors see what the paper picked up from the family’s mail and the back issues: a callback, a first, an anniversary nobody has mentioned. Each one shows where it came from. Only editors see this panel.
News about a death, a pregnancy, a divorce or someone’s health never goes out on its own. An editor has to read it first. And if something shouldn’t run yet, like a surprise party, you can hold the issue until it can.
A private newspaper for your family, made from their replies.
