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Team Hello

Report your hometown.

The one thing you can't fake is you, on camera, in a real town, asking a real person a real question. While everyone else shuffles resumes, Team Hello correspondents build a reel of real reporting, published under their own byline. For journalism, communications and broadcast students and student athletes, starting in college towns.

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Applications are open. An editor reads every one and replies either way.

Chris McDonald, spokesperson for HelloNation
Chris McDonaldActor and HelloNation spokesperson, backing Team Hello. Open to students and recent graduates.

What a correspondent does

Find it. Film it. Put your name on it.

  1. Find the stories

    Build relationships with chambers, Main Street groups, cities, nonprofits, schools and residents, and bring back leads nobody else has.

  2. Record and write

    Record the interview where it happened, verify what happened, and write the piece the video sits in, to a standard an editor will publish under your name.

  3. Build a portfolio

    A permanent author profile and a public body of published work, on camera and on the page.

Already on the wire

Callie SchrockBellflowerWatch: Callie on the person who shaped them in BellflowerSophia CunninghamTollandWatch: Sophia on the person who shaped them in TollandSam RegezSanta Clarita, CAWatch: Sam on the person who shaped them in Santa ClaritaVee EdwardsChicagoWatch: Vee on why Chicago is a good place to raise a family

For students

What a classroom can't give you.

Published work. When you apply for your first job, you won't describe what you could do. You'll send the stories you already did, reported on camera and edited to a professional standard.

  • A byline on every story you report
  • A permanent author profile and portfolio people can watch
  • Editor review, line by line, on your first assignments
  • Introductions to the chambers, cities and nonprofits in your territory
  • The Hello Newswire style guide and playbooks
Mentorship. Every correspondent is paired with an editor who reviews their first stories line by line, and with a regional lead who knows the territory and the people in it.
Where it leads. You leave with a public body of work, editor references and relationships across the chambers, cities and nonprofits in your area.
Where your byline goes. Hello Newswire first, then the HelloNation magazine for that town, neighborhood, city and partner sites, and a monthly feature to 300+ media outlets. A story you report in a college town doesn't stop at a student paper. How it travels

Correspondent resources

Everything you work from.

  • The Hello Newswire Style Guide

    How a Hello Newswire story is structured, sourced and headlined, and the standards every correspondent works to.

  • Ethics and Independence

    What coverage can and can't be influenced by, how to handle conflicts, and when to decline a story. The standards

  • Interview Playbooks

    Question sets for the story types Hello Newswire covers most, from ribbon cuttings to recoveries.

  • Pitch and Publish

    How to submit, what an editor looks for, and how a story moves up the coverage ladder.

Become a correspondent

Tell us where you are and what you want to cover.

About you
School and program
Your work
If you give us your hometown, we send this to that desk as a nomination with your name on it.

Not a student, but you know the community?

Hello Newswire works with independent writers, retired journalists and community leaders too. Tell us about your area.

Get in touch

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