Newsela Outage History

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Newsela had 1 outage in the last 2 years totaling 49m of downtime — averaging 0 incidents per month.

There was 1 Newsela outage since September 1, 2026 totaling 49m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Source: https://status.newsela.com

Minor September 1, 2026

Newsela Writing - Student Essay Saving Issues

Detected by Pingoru
Sep 01, 2026, 08:41 PM UTC
Resolved
Sep 01, 2026, 09:31 PM UTC
Duration
49m
Affected: Search (Newsela)Writing - Assignment AccessWriting - Assignment EvaluationWriting - Assignment ReportingWriting - Assignment Reporting (Newsela Writing)
Timeline · 1 update
  1. identified Sep 01, 2026, 08:42 PM UTC

    Student essays for assignments that have both the Sentence Checklist and Glows & Grows disabled are at risk for data loss. We are actively working this issue and anticipate a fix within the next 2 hours.

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