Original title
renegadepress.com
Released
1/18/2004
Origin country
CA
Genre
Drama
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
5
Number of episodes
52
Aboriginal hip-hop artist Jack Sinclair and his best friend Zoey Jones established an underground ezine called renegadepress.com. What started as a pet project soon took on a life of its own pushing Jack, Zoey and their crew of renegade reporters to deliver the goods on what's really going on in the lives of today's teens.
Renegadepress.com receives an anonymous message that leads Zoey to investigate a group of girl bullies in her school. But when the investigation makes her the girl gang's next target, she faces mounting pressure to drop the story. Instead, Zoey exposes the truth about the bullies on the renegadepress.com and the bullies are suspended from school.
Jack discovers that his sister Crystal is corresponding with a potential cyber-stalker. Jack lures Crystal's stalker out of hiding in order to expose him on the renegadepress.com. But Crystal gets wind of it and arranges to meet him earlier, still believing he is just a 13 yr-old kid. What she encounters is indeed a 20-something stalker. But before he can abduct her Jack and Zoey arrive to prevent it.
Zoey is fascinated by ‘bad boy' Ben and decides to write an article about life ‘on the wild side' in order to get to know him better. Zoey is high on Ben and on the thrill of acting like someone different than she is. She goes to a party with Ben and gets miserably drunk. It's only when she lies to her mom, Linda, and to Jack, and lets him down when he really needs her, that she realizes she's gone too far
Carmen discovers a story about a girl in her dance class who is getting her breasts enlarged as a present from her parents for her sixteenth birthday. The girl, Amanda, is so depressed about her normal teenage body that her parents and her psychologist support her decision to have major cosmetic surgery. Carmen is amazed that Amanda would consider the operation but Amanda's obsession with image makes Carmen reexamine how much attention she and her friends pay to their looks.
Sandi uses the guise of doing a story on skateboarding as an excuse to get close to Kat, a skater girl he has a crush on. Vince wants Sandi to tape his skateboard ‘trick' for the Renegade website, but actually he wants to crash on purpose, hoping the video clip will get picked up by Xtreme crash shows. Sandi, thinking it'll impress Kat, agrees. But Vince gets hurt and when Kat realizes Sandi was in on it she is angry he was involved.
At Ben's group home his friend has lapsed into a coma after being restrained by staff. Ben wants Zoey to investigate and get the guard who restrained his friend fired or charged. Zoey takes up the cause but realizes the system also holds responsibility for the staff not being properly trained. When her report refuses to point the finger solely at the guard, Ben feels betrayed
A kid at school dies and the official line is a heart attack. When Jack hears it might be related to sniffing, he decides to find out. Zoey knows the family, and isn't sure she wants Jack bugging them, but Jack argues his research shows that the majority of sniffers are white kids, yet you never hear about it in the mainstream news. Everyone thinks sniffing is just a native problem, but the bottom-line is it is everyone's problem.
Zoey is startled to learn her friend Melaine belongs to a local pro-anorexia website, run by Vanessa. Because of stress at home, Zoey almost becomes seduced by Vanessa too, who presents herself as strong and in control of her life. But when Zoey meets Vanessa she learns she is actually bed ridden and under constant nursing care because of her disease. The image of a sickly Vanessa helps Melanie realize how dangerous anorexia is.
When Carmen's basketball coach is forced to resign, Carmen decides to investigate and uncovers allegations of sexual harassment. The allegations come from the star basketball player who wasn't getting enough playing time, ruining her chances at a basketball scholarship. The coach appears to be innocent, so Carmen writes a story for renegade. When the basketball star reveals she really was harassed, Carmen goes to Jack and Zoey to retract her story -- she got it all wrong.
Jack's cousin Reg comes to stay with the Sinclair family, claiming he got out of the street gang he belonged to. But when the gang wants Reg to come back to ‘the family' they threaten Jack and Crystal. It's up to the Sinclair family to find Reg a safe place to stay and off the streets.
An indignant Zoey decides to do a story about privacy after she learns the school is planning on installing surveillance cameras. To fight back, Zoey plans on planting a camera in the staff room, but when she tests the camera at home she accidentally discovers her mother, Linda, had an affair -- and her dad knows about it. Zoey is upset she was kept in the dark, and her renegadepress story argues surveillance cameras are not an alternative to honest and direct communication.
Carmen is courted by a big modelling agency. She and the agent hit it off and sparks fly. It's then that Carmen learns from another model that the agency expects the young models to have sex with managers and clients while overseas in Europe. Carmen confronts her agent and gives up her dream of a big modelling contract.
Renegadepress airs a submitted video of a girl at West Central doing an awkward dance. Kids start to parody the tape and the girl reveals she never sent it in. Jack takes it off the website, but not before dozens of other sites tamper with the original picture and spread it across the web. The humiliated girl has to drop out of school and a guilty Jack contemplates shutting down renegade. Meanwhile, Zoey has a run in with the Principal and is suspended from school, and the season ends with Jack taking up her cause... on renegadepress.com.
While investigating recent acts of police brutality against Native youth, Jack puts himself in danger and disrupts his first official date with Zoey.
Patti writes an article for renegadepress.com on cam girls and how far some people will go for a little attention.
Zoey's investigation into a racist heavy-metal band exposes the frailty of Jack's new relationship and prompts Zoey to explore the power of music.
Crystal is shocked when she finds out how far some girls will go to be part of a clique.
Jack's new girlfriend, Tina, is forced to fight for the right to stay with her adoptive family when her reserve tries to regain custody of she and her little sister.
An illicit relationship between a female teacher and a male student prompts Zoey to write an article for renegadepress.com about the dangers of love.
In an effort to bulk up for the football team, Sandi starts experimenting with dangerous performance enhancing drugs.
Melanie's decision to embrace her Muslim faith forces Zoey to re-examine her own ideas about spirituality.
Jack and Zoey try to find a way to connect with Popper, a troubled youth who plans to overdose on line.
After her new boyfriend introduces her to Crystal Meth, Monica finds herself turning from an innocent bookworm into a full-fledged drug addict.
Zoey helps Emilio, a new student from Guatemala, fight for his right to stay in Canada in order to provide food and money for his family back home.
Sandi tries to understand the developing teen brain as his own brain goes wild when he falls hard for Charlotte, a drummer in a local punk band while Jack tries to persuade Zoey that it's time for them to sleep together.
For the first time in years Jack and Crystal go back to the reserve to visit their mother only to find that she has devastating news for them.
When Alex comes across some documents her mother has been hiding, Zoey helps Alex discover what actually happened to her.
With both of their parents away for the evening Jack and Sandi look forward to evenings alone with their respective girlfriends.
Zoey finds herself caught between two friends when Melanie becomes the target of identity theft.
Oscar jeopardizes his relationship with Patti when he decides to help Nathan, a gay student at West Central, make a statement at the school dance.
When a beautiful but violent story is sent anonymously to renegadepress.com, Jack and Zoey have different opinions about whether it's a great piece of literature or a real threat against the school.
A look back at the first three seasons of renegadepress.com.
Zoey and Alex uncover a cyber-bullying ring and Jack releases his CD.
While writing about the girls' volleyball team, Crystal discovers a star player and her boyfriend on a dangerous, slippery slope.
Sandi gets a little too close to a story about a West Central student who smokes pot with her parent.
Annoyed that the school won't allow condoms in the washrooms, Oscar runs for school trustee.
The death of a fellow West Central student affects everyone in different ways as Patti writes the story for renegade by default.
Wayne's increasingly disturbing behaviour leads Jack to the truth about his father's residential school experience.
Jack tries to accept that he's not a match for his mother's bone marrow transplant while Alex tries to deal with the fact that she's losing her best friend to a boy.
Sandi's increasing addiction to a video game causes him to blur the lines between fantasy and reality.
Alex finds herself in a compromising position when she realizes that students will pay her money for her unwanted prescription.
Patti and Sandi do a video project on the stress that midterm exams cause.
Rumours and speculation fly about a new posting on renegadepress.com in which a girl claims to have killed her mother.
After attending a wild party on the weekend Zoey has trouble remembering.
Zoey does her best to help her friend during Alex's trial against Dylan but her testimony may do more harm than good.
Susie goes a little too far when she plots revenge against a teacher who won't let her use her cell phone in class.
Zoey makes a new friend at AA who helps her discover her higher power.
Crystal's decision to get her best friend off the streets causes her boyfriend to re-kindle old ties with the Red Clan.
Patti is finally enjoying living on her own... until Sandi shows up on her doorstop looking for a place to crash.
Connor forces Susie to take a deeper look at herself when he writes a renegade story dealing with girls and their dependency to make-up.
Jack gets a shocking look at the reality of life on the Rez when his music is linked to a suicide cluster.
Zoey's chances of making it into a reputable Montreal dance group are threatened when she is approached by a girl who seems to be obsessed with her.
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