About

Mission Statement

The Blue & Gold is a student-run publication dedicated to sharing stories from the Taipei American School community. Produced and distributed free of charge monthly during the academic year by staff writers at TAS, The Blue & Gold strives to showcase and interrogate the community it serves.

The Blue & Gold strives to represent the school as whole, showcasing hidden personalities and covering events and issues that affect the school and community. In striving to create and produce a comprehensive school newspaper, The Blue & Gold has a regularly updated website that is dedicated to providing an even greater voice to members of the student body. Speech is protected on the condition that it does not infringe on others and upholds the Taipei American School values of Honesty, Respect, Responsibility, Kindness, and Courage.

Started in 2008, The Blue & Gold website includes all articles published in the print edition as well as online-exclusive articles. Students, faculty, parents, and other members of the TAS community are encouraged to offer feedback by commenting on articles or submitting their own articles. Article submissions will either be published in the print edition or online. Feel free to contact us or talk to any of The Blue & Gold staff members. We welcome any questions, opinions, comments, or suggestions regarding The Blue & Gold.

Op-eds and Editorials

Editorials collectively represent the opinions of The Blue & Gold’s editorial board, while op-eds represent the opinions of each writer. Opinions in The Blue & Gold do not necessarily reflect the views of TAS student body, staff, faculty or administration.

Letters to the Editor

We welcome letter submissions from all readers. Email your signed letter of under 500 words at [email protected].

Corrections

We take all measures possible to report accurately, and seek to bring professional, thorough reporting to our readers. Please report any inaccuracies in The Blue & Gold content to out email, [email protected].