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📰 The Journalist Lounge

Your stories have a home

National or local. Beat writer, freelancer, or the one person covering the whole county. Whether you follow varsity Friday nights, AAU circuits, club, Pop Warner, or the youth leagues nobody else shows up for, your work belongs here. It is free, you keep every byline, and every reader we send goes to your site, not ours.

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📰 Around The Recruiting World

This week across the networks

Free to read, and every card links straight to the source. A rotating look at what MaxPreps, 247Sports, On3, Rivals and ESPN are covering right now.

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Headlines and links belong to their networks. Keys to the Journey is free and sends readers to them. Local journalist? Feature your stories →

Step inside

Sign in with your work email. We send a one tap link, no password. Your lounge, your library, and your tools live here.

No account yet? The same link creates one. Prefer a quick one-off? You can still submit a single story without signing in.

Why Writers Belong Here

Free readers, sent to your page

A built-in local audience

The families, athletes and recruiters already here in your area are the readers you want. Your story lands in front of them automatically, marked as local.

Every click goes to you

Cards link straight to your article on your own site. The traffic and the subscribers are yours. We keep nothing and never reprint your work.

Your coverage builds the map

Write about a kid nobody has listed yet and the app creates a profile from your mention. When that athlete claims it, your story rides on their page for every recruiter who visits.

A permanent library

Every story you add builds your own page on the platform, a living archive of your beat that outlasts any single link.

Coming Soon

A newsroom that talks to each other

A social layer is on the way: follow other writers, get followed by the families and programs you cover, and share your work inside the community that cares about it most. The Lounge is the first floor.