Write for Juice · Writers & partners
Your byline, on Juice.
OC needs more people covering it. Write the stories from your city, your scene and your block, and put them in front of the people who live there. Run an outlet, a page or a channel? Let’s cover the county together.
Write it. Own it.
Every story carries your name, builds your page and lands in front of a local audience that already reads Juice.
Your byline, your page
Your name and photo on every story, and an author page that collects your work, built so Google and AI search know who you are.
Author pageA real audience
Your stories run on the site, and the best ones ride the weekly email, push alerts and Juice’s 79K on Instagram.
Site · email · alertsAn editor in your corner
Every story gets a read and notes before it runs. You get better with each one, and nothing goes out half-done.
Control Room reviewClips that count
Published, dated stories on an OC news site. Use them for school, your résumé and your next pitch.
Your portfolioCover OC together.
Local news is stronger with more voices. Work with Juice and you share the audience, not just the story.
Credit that links back
Build on your reporting and we name you and link you, on the page and in the code search engines and AI read.
Sources · citationsCollab posts
Co-post on Instagram so it lands on both feeds. Your followers find Juice, Juice’s 79K find you.
Instagram collabsShare our stories and clips
Want to run a Juice story or clip? Ask. Credit and a link back is the starting point.
Stories · videoBig nights, together
Elections, shows, festivals and breaking news. Split the coverage and both audiences get the whole story.
Events · electionsPull up a chair.
Writers start as Contributors. Regulars move up to Editor and publish their own stories.
- Pitch one storyThe thing in your city nobody is covering.
- Write it in the Control RoomAn editor reads it and sends notes.
- Move upRegulars become Editors and get first shot at paid work.
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