We’re looking for writers — Be a community journalist!

You know hyperlocal news is important. With DC news organizations closing and hardly any real news outlet providing local neighborhood info, hyperlocal journalism is even more critical for keeping the community informed. That's the niche that Petworth News focuses on, and if you're interested in contributing to your community, then come write with us.

We're looking for new writers!

From new restaurants to crime, ANC meetings, Upshur and Kennedy Street festivities and growth, Petworth News has more and more become a go-to source for our community. Stories like helping to get Momma's Law passed, fixing the kids' pools at DPR aquatic centers, helping people learn about ANC and DC Council candidates, all have an impact on our community and our city at large.

More than 30,000 people read the blog each month, including members of the DC Council, MPD, DC agencies and other city leaders, so your exposure and potential influence as a Petworth News writer on issues important to neighbors can have a real-world impact.

You don't have to live in Petworth, in fact, we'd love new voices from Park View, Brightwood, Crestwood, Shepherd Park, north Columbia Heights and so on. You just need to think local about your community!

Whether you want to write once a week or once a month, want to write about social issues, economics, restaurants, crime, highlight people doing great things in our community or other cool and interesting ideas, fill out this form and let's chat. We have some great contributors already and would love to add more unique voices to tell the story of our neighborhoods.

Requirements: Be able to write (and take photographs) and be someone who wants to be involved in the neighborhood. Be willing to interview people, go to meetings and local restaurants, talk to city agencies and officials, and be able to write articles in a casual, friendly tone. You have to be relatively neutral to politics in your writing (Petworth News prefers to be objective unless it’s an op-ed piece). You need to be open to chasing after a story, whether it's a feel-good story, hard interview or a funny moment. While it’s not a paid position, you will get lots of good feelings for helping readers be informed and engaged, and helping your community feel like a neighborhood.

We'll be holding an in-person meeting in the coming week for those interested in writing for the site, so fill out this quick form to let us know you're interested.