Local publishing, verified by the people who were there.
A community publishing platform for hyperlocal news, school newspapers, church bulletins, magazines, and editor-reviewed journals. Many firsthand accounts, woven by AI into one clear story — verified by GPS-confirmed witnesses, not by likes.
Four ways to publish · one app
Free to download. Community-powered. Always.
City council votes on downtown rezoning
Reporter writing live from chamber…
Jefferson beats Caroline 7-3 in varsity opener
Road closure on Main & 5th starts Monday
Local news is vanishing.
Who's watching your town?
local newspapers closed since 2005
Americans live in a news desert
of local government goes unreported
US Local Newspapers
2005 → 2024
About 2,886 local papers are gone — a third of the country's newsrooms, in 19 years.
Counties with no paper at all
206
Counties with just one
1,500+
Source: Northwestern Medill, State of Local News (annual report). Figures rounded; trend is what matters.
When the paper closes, the school board votes in secret. The pothole never gets fixed. The restaurant reopens without anyone knowing. Your community doesn't just lose a newspaper — it loses its voice.
Gazetz gives it back.
Every other news source gives you one view.
Gazetz gives you the whole scene.
A newspaper gives you one reporter's angle. Social media gives you whatever the algorithm liked. Gazetz is built on a different idea: the people who were actually there build the story together — and being there is what makes it true.
Everyone who was there, one story
Instead of one byline, a story grows from every firsthand account — photos, eyewitness notes, corrections — and AI weaves them into one clear, flowing article. No single reporter's bias. The whole scene.
Verified by presence, not popularity
GPS confirms who was really at the scene, and witnesses confirm or dispute each piece. Reputations are earned by being right — disputed reporting costs you. Likes decide nothing here.
A whole press, not just a feed
Local news is the foundation — and the same trust engine powers your school's paper, your church's bulletin, a city magazine, an editor-reviewed journal. One town, one app, every publication.
In one line: news you can trust because the people who were there wrote it together.
It started with a framed newspaper clipping.
When I was a kid, my dad framed a story from The Gazette about my first home run. A local reporter had been at the game, wrote it up, and printed it. That clipping still hangs on a wall.
Years later, I went looking for the local news that gave me that moment — and it was gone. The Gazette had stopped covering local sports. No one was there to write up the game, the council vote, the school play. Our town had gone quiet. No kid was getting their home run in the paper anymore.
That felt wrong. But I didn't just want to bring the old newspaper back — I wanted to make it better. What if a story wasn't one reporter's single view, but something the whole community could build together — like building blocks, each person adding the piece they saw? And what if AI could take all those firsthand accounts and organize them into one clear, accurate story that actually flows?
That's Gazetz. Local news is the foundation — but the same engine lets anyone publish a church bulletin, a school newspaper, a magazine, or a collaborative scientific journal. A one-stop shop for the things communities used to print, rebuilt for the people who were actually there.
Ryan BreitenbachFounder, Gazetz
IT'S NOT JUST NEWS
Four kinds of publication.
One app.
The Pay Sheet
What could you earn next month?
Move the sliders. Numbers use Gazetz' pilot rates — at-scene reporting, live coverage, and witness verifications all stack.
Your tier
Projected monthly earnings
Pilot rates — actual rates finalize at launch. Tier multiplier applies to story payouts and at-scene/live bonuses. Witness verifications and tips are paid at flat rates regardless of tier.
One story. Many builders.
The same three-step model works for a breaking news report, a school paper article, a magazine feature, or an editor-reviewed journal submission. Every piece starts small and grows by contribution.
Report or publish.
File a news story from the scene with photos, video, or live writing. Or start an article for your school paper, a feature for your magazine, or a section for your journal. Same flow, four formats.
Others contribute.
On a news story, neighbors drop GPS-verified eyewitness doodles. On a magazine, contributors submit articles. On a journal, contributors submit sections and attach open review notes. On a paper, members submit pieces to the review desk.
Woven into one story.
AI organizes every verified account into one clear, flowing story — no single reporter's bias, just what actually happened — then it lands on the wire. Magazine issues go out to subscribers by email; paper stories publish under your masthead the moment an editor approves them. Every piece is preserved and attributed to all contributors.
Truth proven by the people who were there.
Anyone can get clicks. On Gazetz, a story earns its credibility the way real reporting always has — confirmed by firsthand witnesses, on the record, in the open.
Readers always see what's verified, what's disputed, and what's still unknown. Nothing is hidden behind a like count.
Not just another news app.
Live writing
Tap LIVE and the town reads along as you write.
Witnesses, not likes
Only people who were at the scene verify the facts.
Get paid to report
Per-story payouts, tips, ad revenue share. Rates shown before you publish.
Photos done right
Faces and plates blurred by default. Explicit content auto-blocked.
Anonymous tips
Post without a byline when the source matters more than the credit.
Edit history + final edition
Every revision kept on the record. Lock a story when it's done.
GAZETZBe the reporter your town needs.
Download now for iPhone. Android coming soon.