How it works
Something good just happened in your town.
Odds are, nobody will report it. Tell us who did it, and everybody wins: your town gets its good work told, a local correspondent gets a real story under their own name, and you get the credit for noticing. It's free, it takes a few minutes, and anyone can.
Why nominate
Everybody wins.
Your town
The good work finally gets told, and your town gets known for what's going right, not just what's going wrong.
A local correspondent
A real story, reported on camera and published under their own name. A body of work they can point to.
You
You spotted it. When it goes live, you get the link to share, and the credit for noticing.
Want the whole process? Watch the step-by-step walkthrough, or read the five steps below it.
See how it works
From something good to a story people share.
Somebody notices. A correspondent who lives there shows up with a camera and asks. An editor checks it. Then it travels, from the block it happened on out through the HelloNation network. One minute, start to finish.
Start to finish
Five steps, about two weeks.
Real timings, so you know whether to expect a call this week or next month.
- Any day
Something good happens
A milestone, an achievement, a restoration, a rescue, a reopening. Sometimes a business is involved. Sometimes there isn't.
- Within 24 hours
Someone notices
A neighbor, a chamber, a school, a nonprofit or a city sends a nomination. It's logged and routed to the correspondent who covers that neighborhood or town.
- Within 3 business days
A correspondent reports it
A Team Hello correspondent who lives there reads it and decides whether there's a story. You hear back either way. Then they make contact, check what happened and record the interview on camera.
- Before anyone reads it
An editor checks it
Facts, sourcing and standards, every time. When a story isn't there yet, it goes back to the correspondent.
- Typically within two weeks
It travels
The video publishes under the correspondent's byline with the full transcript beneath it, you get the link, and it moves out through the HelloNation network.
Who does what
Four people between it happening and you hearing about it.
The person who noticed
A neighbor, a chamber, a school, a nonprofit or a city. They send a lead, not an article. Anyone can, and most stories start here.
The correspondent
A Team Hello correspondent who lives in that community. They make contact, interview the people involved, verify what happened and publish under their own byline. Become one
The editor
Reads every story before it publishes, checks it against the Hello Newswire standards, and sends it back when it isn't there yet. The standards
The partner organization
Chambers, Main Street groups, cities, schools and nonprofits surface stories from their area and carry the coverage from their territory. Partner with us
Where the story goes
Told once. Carried four ways.
A story can matter enormously to one neighborhood without ever being national news. It starts where it happened and travels as far as it's relevant, on a network HelloNation already runs.
Hello Newswire
It publishes here first under the correspondent's byline and stays part of the record for that neighborhood, town, county, region and state.
The HelloNation magazine
It runs in the HelloNation edition for the town it happened in, the magazine that town already reads.
Neighborhood, city and partner sites
HelloNation runs sites down to the neighborhood level. Cities, chambers and Main Street groups can carry the wire on their own sites too.
National press distribution
Each correspondent files a monthly feature over the national press distribution HelloNation uses for its good news releases, reaching more than 300 media outlets.
What counts
If people near you would be glad to hear it, it's a story.
Progress, service, achievement and community pride. Here's what that looks like.
A business milestone
A 40th anniversary, an expansion, a hire that changed a family, a storefront that reopened after a fire.
A student or school achievement
A national competition, a first-in-the-family scholarship, a robotics team that made state.
A nonprofit or service story
A pantry that doubled capacity, a shelter that hit a goal, volunteers who solved a problem nobody was paid to solve.
A community project
A restored landmark, a new park, a mural, a cleanup, a Main Street district coming back to life.
Someone quietly remarkable
A neighbor, a coach, a crossing guard, an apprentice who earned a license and came back to teach.
Neighbors showing up
A family helped after a fire, a fundraiser that worked, a block that took care of its own.
Questions people ask
The short answers.
Who can nominate a story?
Anyone. You don't have to be involved in it or represent an organization. Most of the best nominations come from somebody who was standing there.
Can a business be featured?
Yes. Doing something worth featuring is the way in: a milestone, an expansion, a restoration or a hire that changed a family all count.
Who decides what gets reported?
The correspondent who covers your territory, with an editor reviewing before publication. That decision is never tied to advertising, sponsorship or any payment.
Who pays for the reporting?
HelloNation. It funds the wire, because good news has no business model of its own and somebody has to. Why HelloNation does this
What if something in a story is wrong?
Email hello@hellonewswire.com with the link and what's inaccurate. Corrections are noted at the bottom of the story with the date and what changed.
Can our organization carry Hello Newswire stories?
Yes. Partners get a nomination portal, a dashboard of stories from their area, republishing rights in their territory and a named correspondent contact. How partnering works
Three ways in.
Tell us what happened, report your hometown, or put your organization's name on its good news.
Good News Travels Faster.