The Evolving Newsroom

I’m launching an online marketplace shortly where you can sell and buy news features, profiles, reviews and other stories.

It’s called All About The Story and the idea is to use the web to make it easier for writers to sell their stories, test the market for new kinds of storytelling, and to make it easy for editors to find new talent and pick up content that will inspire them and help plug gaps in their pages.

We have big plans but we’re starting out with one simple goal: to give newspaper editors a stack of interesting content they can fill their pages with over the slow news days of summer.

If you’re a writer and have a few story ideas kicking around, now’s a great time to get to work on them and post them on All About The Story for sale.

We’ve already spoken to a number of editors who are interested in using All About The Story and who will be visiting the site when we send out invites in December. So this is a good opportunity to get noticed and earn some extra Christmas cash by selling stories that make for good holiday reading.

It’s free to join All About The Story and easy to post stories. You retain ownership, can set your own price and edit or remove your stories at any time. You can post unpublished stories or syndicate stories that have already run somewhere else.  You can fill out a Profile too, so editors can see who you are and what you’ve got to offer.

I’ll post more about the site, the people behind it and our plans for it in the coming weeks. At this stage, you’ll find that we’re New Zealand focused but we’re open to interest from all corners.

We’re in beta, so any and all feedback is very welcome. Drop me a line at julie AT allaboutthestory DOT com, call me on +64 21 828 568 or use the Contact form here or on All About The Story.