Founding spots

Every Sunday · Your town · Your family

Your family deserves its own newspaper.

What if the next thing your kid wanted to read had their name in the headline?

Discover what's happening around town, celebrate the people you love, and find more reasons to spend time together. A personalized newspaper with your family's week ahead, delivered Sunday.

Founding spots Look at a sample first →
Less scrolling. More living. · Your family. Your town. Your newspaper.

First papers Sunday, Dec. 6, 2026

Only 25 founding families.

We're welcoming 25 founding families to help shape The Family Newspaper from the start. Your founding price stays as long as you stay subscribed, and founding families always get the lowest public price. Once 25 families have joined, founding membership closes.

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We're finishing the last privacy details before we take founding spots. Check back here, or email hello@thefamilynewspaper.com with a question (that isn't a sign-up).

The Family Newspaper, operated by Michael Lachance · hello@thefamilynewspaper.com

A newspaper where your family is the story.

Name your paper. Watch the masthead change.

Every family names its own paper. Try yours on the sample below. Nothing you type leaves this page.

This front page is a SAMPLE for a fictional family, the Thompsons. Your paper is built around your own family, town and interests.

SAMPLE PREVIEW · fictional family
Vol. 1 · No. 1 Near you Four pages

The Thompson Times

Good morning, Thompsons!

SAMPLE

What will Lily's soccer headline be this week?

Sample headline. This hasn't happened. Tell us what did.

Every Friday we'll ask how Lily's week went. Send a line or a photo, and this becomes a real game report.

The Fall Market Worth Getting Up Early For

In your real paper, this is a local event we've researched for your town, with the date, place and cost.

Five Adventures Happening Near You This Week

In your paper, this lists real events near you, each with a date, place and cost, picked for what your household enjoys.

Why Minecraft Worlds Are Bigger Than You Think

A story about something your family is into, written to be read at the table.

Science Fair Season: Three Experiments Noah Could Try

Ideas to try at the kitchen table, picked for what he's into right now.

Inside: WeatherThe week aheadNear you, p. 2For the kids, p. 3Worth your coffee, p. 3Sunday puzzle, p. 4
Page 4Sunday puzzle

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How a week works

Your family's week ahead, delivered Sunday.

Each paper covers Monday to Sunday and arrives the Sunday before.

  1. Friday

    “Anything worth celebrating this week?”

    Reply with a win, a photo or a funny moment, or skip it. Your paper will still be full.

  2. Saturday

    Your draft, to look over.

    We put it together, check the facts and send you a draft. Change anything, remove anything, or approve it as is.

  3. Sunday

    Your week ahead arrives.

    Once you approve, it lands in your inbox, ready to read.

Your family stays the editor-in-chief. Every Saturday you get the whole draft, and nothing goes out, not even to the people you choose, until you approve it. Anything about health, school, family changes or people outside your home is shown to you to decide on before it goes out. There's no public page and no public link.

What you get

Made for your family, every week.

Written for your family

Your people, your town and the things you're into, in four pages every Sunday.

A space for everyone

The soccer player, the scientist, the gardener: everyone finds themselves in it.

Your paper, your name

You name your paper. One small line on the last page is all that says it's ours.

You see it first

Every edition is a draft for you to approve. Nothing goes out until you approve it.

Where it started

How The Family Newspaper started

I'm Michael Lachance. As Author Success Manager at selfpublishing.com, I've spent years helping writers get their books into print, including more than 2,800 coaching calls with self-published authors. I'm an author myself. So I thought I knew what it means to see your name in print.

Then I watched a 12-year-old find his.

This fall I started making a newspaper for my family in Barrie, Ontario: my wife Briea, my stepson Oakley, our son Miller and me.

I printed one and left it on the coffee table.

Oakley is 12. He isn't someone who usually picks up something to read. He picked this up without being asked.

On the front page, in the spot for updates about his own games, he found his name. His face lit up. “Oh, I'm in the paper!” Then he kept going, reading articles about the things he actually cares about.

When we told him it wasn't a real public newspaper, he was disappointed. He'd believed he was genuinely in the news.

That's when it clicked for me. His name got his attention. His interests kept him reading. And holding a real paper made it feel real.

Every family has news worth printing. Every kid deserves to make the headlines. The hard part is the work behind it: finding what's on near you, writing it up, laying it out every week. Taking a complicated process and making it simple is what I've done my whole career. So that's what The Family Newspaper does, every Sunday.

Michael Lachance, founder