S-press is the only full colour newspaper written for teenagers in Australia.
This unique publication covers every aspect of teen life from news, sport, and education, to social events, entertainment and fashion.
S-press is a monthly highlight for all teenagers throughout metropolitan and regional Australia.
S-press continues to impress, whilst informing, entertaining, and supporting Australian teenagers.
It’s popularity is due to both its funky presentation and direct relevance to teenagers. S-press is the only mainstream voice for teenagers; a vehicle where they can be both informed as well as heard. Teenagers always encouraged to express their views in S-press.
Published and read by over 400,000 teenagers each month, S-press is distributed to over 3,000 of secondary schools, youth centres, sports clubs, amusement centres, local libraries, and other youth hot spots.
With a primary focus on the 12-18 demographic, S-press covers a broad range of interests and information to appeal to this wide audience of teens.
On a monthly basis, S-press includes teen news, teen letters, underage event photos, current affairs, issues, sport, education and entertainment features, and a dedicated entertainment, fashion, and style magazine lift-out – LOUD.
Loud
As the fashion, style, music and entertainment bible for teenagers, LOUD covers everything that’s cool for our underage audience.
Packed with music reviews, fashion and style tips, celebrity goss, and everything in between, LOUD is devoted to keeping teenagers up to date, with everything that is youth related.
As the monthly full colour lift-out in S-press, LOUD is a highlight for all teenagers throughout the country.
Dressed to impress, LOUD is a high-impact, visual feast.
Every edition of LOUD covers the hottest music news, including up-coming bands, music reviews, underage gig listings, interviews, and specialist columns.
The showbiz section covers all the latest Hollywood goss and info on some of the coolest movie and TV stars, from Australia and around the world.
The fashion and beauty pages keep teenagers up-to date on the latest trends in clothing, accessories, and cosmetics, both mainstream looks, and those weird and wonderful catwalk creations.
There’s also heaps of jokes, puzzles, trivia, and loads more.
S-press Sections
Teen news
• “Teens in jeans” - This section focuses on what teens do outside formal classes: fundraisers, beauty pageants, school trips, school musical productions.
• Regular interviews with teen achievers: a champion snowboarder, a talented musician, a teenage male model.
• An in-depth teen news feature, on relevant issues and interest. Stories that keep teenagers in touch with issues in the media that affect them. These stories have a provocative edge, whether they’re dealing with obesity, part-time job rip-offs or a push by youth workers to introduce a teen curfew in their suburb. Also includes Street Talk, a vox pop on issues in the news, and Around the Country, news briefs from Vic, Tas and the Northern Territory.
• School event photos: images from school formals, musical or theatre productions, deb balls, fetes.
Current affairs – Hard news
• Inside the news: puts a story in the media in context: the politics, history and key players, behind a news story.
• Hardcore news: Australian and global news - full page of regular news off AAP.
• Issues: Two-page spread on a topic — consumerism, sex, religion, identity, diabetes, obesity, divorce, pornography. Breaks down the topic into component factors, can include Q&A with stake-holder/expert in topic. Includes vox pops, timeline, quick facts, contacts for further info.
Your Say
• Letters to the editor. Provides the largest teen voice in the country.
EduPress – Education sections
• “Teens in uniform” - Here the achievements and stories are educational: exam winners, debating high flyers, VCE news, VCAL news, VET news, SBNA news; plus Education Update, briefs about what’s happening in secondary education in Vic, Tas and the Northern Territory.
• In Focus column: tertiary ed developments: increase in uni places, changes to HECS, ACE progress.
• Bookmark - books for young adults reviewed by students.
Sport
• Three pages of school sport.
• Fresh column: healthy eating, healthy living.
• Howzat opinion column written in-house: bad behaviour on field or court, AFL scandals, etc
Careers
S-press' monthly careers section After School is the ultimate careers resource for teenagers. The section keeps students informed about their various options when it comes to further study and career pathways.
The section includes interviews with real life industry professionals; University, TAFE and College institute profiles; and information relating to skills shortages, apprenticeships, scholarships, work experience and new courses.
