About

The staff’s Editors-in-Chief are Christopher Long, Caroline Beal, Michael Yi and Avni Bansal.

The Harbinger is the exclusively student-run news program for Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Village, KS. Staffed by approximately 60 dedicated students and overseen by advisor C. Dow Tate, its online and print publications have won a variety of national awards.

The publication is updated with daily published content including stories, videos, live broadcasts, photo galleries and multimedia packages. Select stories are published in its print publication every two weeks in addition.

Partnered with The Harbinger, Harbie Photo is a website run by the student photographers of the newspaper and the yearbook staffs. Updated daily, Harbie Photo allows visitors to purchase prints of high-quality photos at low rates that appear, and don’t appear, in online content or print. All proceeds benefit the SME Journalism program.

If you would like to buy a subscription to the Harbinger or exchange papers with us, please email us at smeharbinger@gmail.com. Contact us at that email for other questions, comments or concerns.

To apply to be a part of the spring 2026-2027 Harbinger staff, a program that recently won a 2026 NSPA Online Pacemaker and was a finalist for the 2025 NSPA Newspaper Pacemaker, please contact our email, or fill out an application at the end of first semester (application updates will be posted on our instagram @smeharbinger). Intro to News Media (Journalism 1) is not a requirement to be a photographer or online staff member, however, samples of work are required for inclusion in all applications.

For more information, please e-mail us at smeharbinger@gmail.com