About Hello Newswire
Good things are happening everywhere.
Sometimes someone just needs to notice. Hello Newswire is HelloNation's good news newswire: we find, report and spread what's going right in American towns, from the neighborhood where it happened to everywhere it matters.
Mission
To find, report and spread the good things happening in communities that too often go untold.
Every story starts the same way: something good actually happened, and somebody noticed. A business hits a milestone. A student earns something. A neighborhood restores a landmark. A community rallies around a family. The question is never who wants publicity. It's what happened here that people should know about.
How good news grows
- Good work creates stories
- Stories create recognition
- Recognition inspires nominations
- Nominations uncover more good work
What earns a place here
Earned, never bought.
A place on Hello Newswire is earned by doing something worth reporting. That's the only way in, for a business, a nonprofit, a city or a neighbor, and it's what makes a story here worth believing.
Local first
The importance of news starts with relevance, not size. A story can matter enormously to one neighborhood without being national news, and that doesn't make it less worth reporting.
Edvertising
HelloNation's word for education-first publishing: useful, credible information comes first, and recognition follows. Advertising interrupts. Edvertising informs.
Nobody pays to be in it
A business can be reported on. It can't buy the report. Nobody on either side of a story pays for it, and no advertising is sold against this site.
Who publishes Hello Newswire
Published by HelloNation. Paid for by HelloNation.
Hello Newswire is published by CGI Communications, Inc., doing business as CGI Digital and HelloNation, out of Rochester, New York.
CGI Digital has worked with American communities since 1987. It produces community showcase videos and streetscape banners for municipalities in all 50 states, at no cost to the community, and is a strategic partner of the National League of Cities, endorsed by the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the National Association of Counties. HelloNation grew out of that work into a national local media platform, featured by USA Today in 2025.
Chambers, Main Street groups, cities and associations hand HelloNation good news every day. Until now there was nowhere to report it properly. Hello Newswire is the same instinct that built the city videos and the Main Street banners, pointed at journalism.
The moment coverage can be bought, it stops being worth publishing. That's why the line stays exactly where it is.
Why Hello Newswire exists
Local journalism has contracted. Local stories haven't stopped happening.
Thousands of accomplishments, acts of service and moments of progress happen every day without ever becoming part of the public record. Hello Newswire isn't here to pretend everything is good, or to ignore serious news. Its job is to make sure the good news gets reported too.
Know something good that happened near you?
Nominations are open to anyone, and partner organizations are welcome. Both start the same way.
Good News Travels Faster.