The Paly Voice

Started in Fall 2002, The Paly Voice is a student-run journalism Web site published continuously by the students in Palo Alto High School's Web Journalism class.

At the Voice, staff members present their own reporting, writing, and photography along with work from the school's two magazines, Verde and Viking, newspaper, The Campanile, and television network, InFocus. The site also serves as a searchable archive of the content of these publications.

As of May. 16, 2008, the Voice staff has written 1685 stories as well as posted 2947 Campanile articles, 717 Verde stories, 402 In Focus broadcasts, 7133 images, and 4814 pieces of feedback from readers. Altogether, they have received a total of 6473220 hits.

Last month, the site had 52,385 unique visitors from over 80 countries, according to traffic-tracking software. Overseas visitors primarily consisted of people from Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and the Netherlands.

The Voice has also been referred by 6,500 external pages. The primary referrer is paly.net, the school's official website, which has been featuring the Voice spotlight boxes on its front page since 2003.