About Us

Bearing News is an original news website published from Rock Bridge High School in Columbia, Missouri. It was first launched in the 2011-2012 school year by the staff of The Rock, newspaper, and Flashback, yearbook. The staff of the newspaper and the Journalism Editors Seminar class continue to run the website, which is advised by Therasia Brautigam.

The Rock was a broadsheet newspaper that was typically published on a monthly basis throughout the school year; during the COVID-19 pandemic, production of The Rock stopped, and the newspaper staff revived its newsmagazine, Southpaw. Southpaw is now published bi-monthly, by the newspaper class, and a special edition is published in May by the Introduction to Journalistic Writing class.

Small excerpts from stories can be reproduced without permission as long as they are attributed and, if published on the internet, linked to Bearing News. Full articles cannot be reproduced without explicit permission from Bearing News and must be linked to the website.

The Bearing News staff designs the site through SNO. For the best viewing experience, please use a desktop computer.

Feedback, story suggestions and letters to the editor should be submitted through the contact form on Bearing News.