Is it possible to design and lay out a newspaper in SecondLife?

[benjforrest]

I know that sounds dumb, but I need to do this for a class at school, and our professor told us it's possible. Does anyone know if this is true, and if so how I can go about it?

[Rolig Loon]

It depends on exactly what you mean and how much of the work is supposed to be "in" Second Life.  Foir one possible approach, see http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Category:Shared_Media.

[Griffin Ceawlin]

Most of your design and layout would be done in an external graphics program (Photoshop, etc). Then you would import the texture(s) into SL.

For a simple two-sided one-page broadsheet, you'd just have to apply the textures to an appropriately sized prim.

If you want/need a newspaper with multiple pages, you'd need to have a scripted object that would allow you to turn the pages. Here's an example of one such "printing" system. There are others.

Edit: Switched out example URL.

[Lindal Kidd]

As the others point out, there are lots of ways to get media into SL...as a bitmapped texture, or as "media on a prim" which enables you to display a web page on a Second Life object.

However, the tools for creating written media WITHIN Second Life are very primitive.  You can only write notecards, and they cannot be formatted in any significant way...no change of fonts, no bold or italics, no fixed margins, and no columns.  Think "Notepad" and you'll have the idea.

[valerie Inshan]

This is not a newspaper strickly speaking but rather a magazine, but it might interest you.

https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/IntelliBook-V12-Boxed/2595356