Partner with the people who see it first.
A reviewed stream of resident signals for your newsroom - and the reach, mentorship, and byline for the residents who spotted the story.
Good News Bad News gives local newsrooms a steady, moderated, location-tagged feed of what residents are actually seeing on the ground - wins, concerns, patterns, and opportunities, each labeled by verification status. It is, in effect, a running tip line built by the whole city. And it gives citizen journalists something newsrooms rarely can: guidance, fact-checking support, distribution, and credit for the person who noticed the story before anyone else. Together you cover the city more completely than either can alone - the resident who lives it, and the reporter who can carry it the rest of the way.
A reviewed signal feed.
Browse emerging stories before they break. Every signal is moderated, location-tagged, and labeled by verification status - a running tip line built by residents across the city.
Reach, mentorship & a byline.
Residents who submit a signal can be paired with a partner reporter to expand it into a full story - with editorial guidance, fact-checking support, and credit for the person who saw it first.
Patterns get real reporting.
The trends residents surface get the depth they deserve instead of disappearing into a feed - and the public gets reporting grounded in what people are actually living.
Claim a signal
Editors browse the reviewed feed and flag the signals worth expanding into reporting.
Co-report with the resident
The original contributor is invited to work with a reporter - sharing context, photos, and sources.
Publish & credit
The expanded story runs in the partner outlet and links back, crediting the citizen journalist.
Track the pattern
Related signals are bundled so one story can document a citywide pattern, not a single incident.
License the stories. Hire the talent. Pay the writers.
Every license pays the resident who reported the story. That's the deal that keeps the signal coming.
- License and reprint stories from your market, all year
- We handle writer payments on every story you run
- Direct hiring rights from the contributor community, included
- Early access to pattern reports and the full signal feed
- Pick from the stories getting traction on the feed
- Exclusive print rights in your market
- The full $100 goes directly to the journalist who reported it
- Full story, photos, and contributor context included
- Hire journalists we've trained inside this community
- Contributors with a public record: real bylines, real beats
- Vetted through our editorial standards and moderation
- Included free with an annual newsroom license
Residents: your story can pay you. When a newsroom licenses a story you reported, you get paid. Write enough of them well, and a newsroom may hire you outright. Join and start your byline →
What partners get
- A moderated, location-tagged signal feed for your city
- Story licensing with market-exclusive print rights
- Early access to pattern reports before they're public
- Hiring rights to journalists trained in this community
- Writer payments handled by us on every license
- Co-branded "In partnership with" labeling on stories
We're onboarding founding press partners in both launch cities - daily papers, weeklies, public radio, and independent local reporters. If your newsroom covers a community we're in, there's a seat at the table.