About
The Bearcat is the online branch of Mateo Media, which is San Mateo High School’s Journalism/Publications Program. Its five main divisions spotlight student journalism through news articles, editorials, videos, photo galleries, bilingual posts, and blog posts. Content of The Bearcat is always published first and exclusively on the Web, focusing on visual communication and interaction with the viewers.
The Bearcat was created with the purpose of raising awareness of school activities and connecting different parts of the community in a central location.
Mateo Media, has won numerous regional journalism accolades. After winning 5 awards from the Peninsula Press Club in 2010, Mateo Media is determined to succeed at higher levels of competition and provide an even better news service to the SMHS student body.
The Bearcat uses innovative and unconventional ways to maximize its presence in the high school community. Its website serves as the homepage to numerous computers on campus, and The Bearcat is viewed daily by many of the members of the SMHS student population.
The Bearcat uses Wordpress, an open source publishing application, as its website’s content management system. The Bearcat strives to deliver the best experience to it’s readers through industry-leading software and services, but works to build that ‘best experience’ in-house before turning to third parties.
The Bearcat utilizes a customized professional template for its site design.
San Mateo High School is a public school with approximately 1400 students, located in San Mateo, California, which is about 40 minutes from San Francisco.
