The Day (website)

The Day is a daily online newspaper for primary and secondary schools in the United Kingdom.[1] It turns the news into lessons across 5 differentiated reading levels, for young people aged 5-19.

The Day's founder, Richard Addis, with winners of the Global Young Journalist award.

The website was founded in 2011 by the British journalist Richard Addis, and by 2023 had over 900 subscribing schools.[2]

The Day is published by The Day News & Media. It has no advertisements. The first story was published on 6 January 2011, titled "Terrible floods in Australia bring ruin and snakes".

In 2015, The Day launched its sister publication, News Detectives, (formerly The Day Explorer) a daily mini-newspaper for primary school students. The first story was published on 13 April, titled "Cornish people declared a national minority".

The Day partners with the LEGO Group on Build the Change Tuesdays, getting students to come up with creative solutions to the sustainability challenges affecting our planet.

It also partners with the University of Oxford on a major response to the growing youth mental health crisis, BrainWaves.

In July 2020, the website apologised and paid an undisclosed amount to author JK Rowling for an article that implied that she was transphobic and should be boycotted.[3]

In 2021, The Day became a business signatory on the National Literacy Trust's "Vision for Literacy" pledge.

"I tried it out on a few (reluctant reader) students over the last 24 hours - their response...'It's way better than reading'. They didn't even realise they were actually reading - they were just so engaged with what they were doing." Assistant Headteacher, The Grove School