A Marketplace Built Around Your Journalism
Good journalism can come from anywhere.
Freelance journalists, independent reporters, photographers, and video journalists often face the challenge of finding the right media houses for their work.
5WH® gives you a marketplace where media buyers actively search for original news stories, photographs, video, audio, and multimedia reporting.
How Journalists Use 5WH®
Create your profile, submit your news stories, photographs, video, audio, or multimedia content, set your price, and offer your reporting to media houses across the globe.
Create Your Profile
Set up your journalist profile, highlight your expertise, locations, and beats, and start submitting your content.
Submit Your Content
Upload original text stories, photographs, video, audio, podcasts, or multimedia packages.
Set Your Price
Decide what your work is worth. Choose fixed pricing or allow media houses to bid on eligible stories.
Connect With Buyers
Media houses discover your content, purchase or bid on stories, or connect with you for commissioned assignments.
Turn Your Reporting Into Revenue
Retain Control. Maximize Reach.
No more sending pitches into the void. 5WH® gives your reporting instant visibility with global media buyers searching for authentic, verifiable news coverage.
Your Work, Across Every Format
5WH® allows journalists to submit and sell original news content across text, photography, video, audio, podcasts, multimedia, and story pitches.
Text News Stories
Submit original breaking news, features, interviews, investigations, analysis, profiles, and other written reports.
Photo News Stories
Offer original news photographs and photo galleries covering events, people, places, communities, and developments.
Video Content
Submit raw footage, interviews, breaking visuals, field reports, and other original video journalism.
Audio & Podcasts
Offer interviews, sound bites, field recordings, podcasts, and other original audio content.
Multimedia Stories
Combine text, photographs, video, audio, graphics, animation, or data to create complete multimedia reports.
Story Ideas & Pitches
Have a story that deserves to be reported? Present original ideas and explore opportunities for assignments, commissioned work, or collaborative projects with media houses.
Original Breaking News & In-depth Reporting
Submit original breaking news, features, interviews, investigations, analysis, profiles, and other written reports to global media houses.
Original Visuals & Photo Galleries From The Ground
Offer original news photographs and photo galleries covering breaking events, press conferences, people, places, communities, and developments.
Interviews, Field Recordings & Sound Bites
Offer interviews, sound bites, field recordings, podcasts, and other original audio journalism to radio stations, digital podcasts, and publications.
Broadcast Footage & Video Journalism
Submit raw footage, interviews, breaking visuals, field reports, explainers, and other original video journalism for television, streaming, and digital publishers.
Comprehensive Digital Packages
Combine text, photographs, video, audio, graphics, animation, or data to create complete multimedia packages that command premium pricing.
Put a Value on Your Reporting
Journalism requires time, effort, and resources. 5WH® is designed to help journalists earn from the original reporting they create.
Set Your Own Price
Decide the price you want to charge for your original content with complete independence.
Offer Content for Bidding
Eligible stories can be listed for media houses to bid on, giving buyers an opportunity to make an offer.
Sell Across Formats
Your work can go beyond written articles. Offer photography, video, audio, podcasts, or complete multimedia packages.
Build Your Content Portfolio
Showcase the subjects you cover, formats you work in, and experience you bring through your professional profile.
Why Journalists Join 5WH®
Professional Visibility, Content Control, and Direct Access to Global Media Buyers
Build Your Professional Profile
Create a profile that presents your journalism experience, interests, expertise, and beats.
Work Across Formats
Offer your journalism as text, photography, video, audio, podcasts, or multimedia content.
Keep Control of Your Content
Choose the stories you want to create and decide how you want your original work to be offered.
Reach Media Buyers
Make your content available to media houses looking for original news and editorial material.
Explore Assignments
Present story ideas and explore opportunities for commissioned reporting and collaborative projects.
Work Independently
Use 5WH® as an additional marketplace for your journalism alongside your existing professional work.
Cover the Beats That Matter
Whether you report on politics, business, technology, culture, sports, or local developments, 5WH® provides a platform to present your journalism.
Breaking News
Report developing events, incidents, announcements, and stories that require timely coverage.
Politics & Public Affairs
Cover elections, government, policy, civic issues, public institutions, and political developments.
Business & Economy
Report on companies, entrepreneurs, industries, startups, markets, finance, and economic developments.
Technology & Innovation
Cover artificial intelligence, technology, startups, digital platforms, innovation, and emerging trends.
Sports
Report on games, athletes, teams, competitions, sporting events, and developments across the world of sports.
Culture & Human Interest
Tell stories about people, communities, arts, entertainment, lifestyle, social issues, and experiences that connect with audiences.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about publishing, pricing, and earning on 5WH®.
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