Membership
Join us on our mission to ensure the future of local journalism — and make the world a better place.
For journalists & news organizations
Solo contributors, working journalists, newspapers, TV & radio stations, podcasts — anyone in the business of news.
Whether you're a seasoned journalist or just getting started, this is a place to grow and make a contribution to your community — our journalism resources help you build the craft, and good habits are built right into the forms: citing your sources, crediting your photos, AP style checks & more.
Free
- Publish on the platform — stories, events, classifieds & more
- Start your own publication — with its own masthead & feed
- Direct support — people & businesses back you with profile support & direct ads on your feed and content, and you keep 90%
- Advertising — get your own content out across the feeds & publications your town reads
- Standard narration
- Short video & audio
- Read & listen on the web, on your phone, in your car — CarPlay & Android Auto
- Be in the know — local news, events & what’s going on around you
- All it takes is getting "vouched for"
Premium
Risk-free 30 days*
- Subscriptions — ongoing, recurring support: readers, businesses & organizations subscribe to your feed at a price you set, and you keep 90%
- Unlimited publishing — every content type
- Unlimited publications & organizations
- Invite your team & build your newsroom — everyone joins with their Premium plan
- Your personal handle — @yourname
- Your publication's handle — @yourpublication
- Your own narration voice
- Long-form video & audio
- Live broadcasting — stream video or audio to your community, like your own TV & radio station
- Polls & surveys — ask your community
- Recurring events — set it once, repeat weekly or monthly
- Custom fonts — pick the typeface your feed and masthead wear
- Content analytics
- Print-ready PDFs — sized for different presses, formats & print specs
- Your Press Pass — a printable press credential, sized for standard badge holders
- Letter of Reference — founder-signed, earned through your work here
- Everything in Free
*Risk-free for new members — not for you? Tell us within 30 days and your first payment is refunded in full.
Catch a bug before anyone else — if we confirm & fix it, your next month is on us.
Branded
Risk-free 30 days*
- Your own domain (your own website address) — point it at your publication's feed, or your personal feed
- Your own email newsletter, sent from your own domain — reach your readers & even import your own contact list
- Everything in Premium
Each additional domain is +$6 a month — one for any feed you want on its own address.
*Risk-free for new members — not for you? Tell us within 30 days and your first payment is refunded in full.
For businesses, organizations & everyone else
Businesses, nonprofits, schools, faith groups, clubs, government & civic institutions — the people & organizations who want to support journalism in their community.
Free
- Publish on the platform — stories, events, classifieds & more
- Set up your business or organization — with its own masthead & feed
- Direct support — people & businesses back you with profile support & direct ads on your feed and content, and you keep 90%
- Advertising — get your own content out across the feeds & publications your town reads
- Standard narration
- Short video & audio
- Read & listen on the web, on your phone, in your car — CarPlay & Android Auto
- Be in the know — local news, events & what’s going on around you
- All it takes is getting "vouched for"
Premium
Risk-free 30 days*
- Subscriptions — ongoing, recurring support: readers, businesses & organizations subscribe to your feed at a price you set, and you keep 90%
- Unlimited publishing — every content type
- Unlimited publications & organizations
- Invite your team — everyone joins with their Premium plan
- Your personal handle — @yourname
- Your organization's handle — @yourorganization
- Your own narration voice
- Long-form video & audio
- Live broadcasting — stream video or audio to your community, like your own TV & radio station
- Polls & surveys — ask your community
- Recurring events — set it once, repeat weekly or monthly
- Custom fonts — pick the typeface your feed and masthead wear
- Content analytics
- Print-ready PDFs — sized for different presses, formats & print specs
- Your Press Pass — a printable press credential, sized for standard badge holders
- Letter of Reference — founder-signed, earned through your work here
- Everything in Free
*Risk-free for new members — not for you? Tell us within 30 days and your first payment is refunded in full.
Catch a bug before anyone else — if we confirm & fix it, your next month is on us.
Branded
Risk-free 30 days*
- Your own domain (your own website address) — point it at your organization's feed, or your personal feed
- Your own email newsletter, sent from your own domain — reach your readers & even import your own contact list
- Everything in Premium
Each additional domain is +$6 a month — one for any feed you want on its own address.
*Risk-free for new members — not for you? Tell us within 30 days and your first payment is refunded in full.
Advertising Partnerships
City
State
Nation
Globe
30 days risk-free — the clock starts when your first campaign does.
Built with you — we set up your account and your campaign together. Introductory pricing — rates may change as the program matures. Partnerships are how reporting that proves itself here gets supplemented — if the mission resonates, see how payments work.
Ready? Pick your tier and jump in — and for something custom, talk to us.
Beyond the plans
Ways we work with you.
For existing newsrooms
Newspaper, news or radio station, podcast, newsletter — already doing the work?
If you already run a newsroom and you're looking for a new home for your infrastructure, we'd love to work with you — running at the lowest possible cost is a mission of ours. Bring your domain, your team, and your advertisers — we'll help you move the pieces and keep what already works.
That includes your archive: we'll shape your back catalog into an import together, and your stories come over with their original dates, bylines, and links intact.
Reach out and we'll talk through enterprise options built around your operation. Pricing is something we work out together.
For student journalism
High school papers & campus newsrooms
Journalism can teach civics — and civics can teach journalism. Neither should feel intimidating. We're looking to establish collaborators and run pilot programs with high schools and university journalism programs: administrators, teachers & professors stay in charge, we're flexible about how student accounts get set up, and it's free to experiment with us.
Wondering where to start? Our resources page collects courses and tools that can take a curious student to a working contributor.
And for university journalism programs, there's a second door: the people you want in your classrooms are already here, posting the first drafts of their communities. An advertising partnership — the same City-to-Globe tiers above — puts your program in front of them, and helps fund the platform they're learning on.