Contribute to The Valley Signal
The Valley Signal is a lean operation, and we intend to grow by bringing people in. This is a community paper, and the community has a role in making it.
Write for us
We're looking for contributors who want to cover a beat, report a story, or bring a perspective the valley's conversation is missing.
You don't need a journalism credential. You need to know the valley, care about accuracy, and be willing to put your name on what you write. We'll work with you on structure, sourcing, and editing. We can't teach knowing the place and giving a damn about it.
We need help covering everything. Government meetings, school board, planning and zoning, the outdoors and public lands, agriculture, healthcare, local business, the people building things here. There's more valley than there is Signal right now, and that's the problem we're trying to solve. If you see a story we're missing, you're probably right, and you're probably the person to cover it.
To pitch: Email [email protected] with "Pitch:" in the subject line. Tell us what you want to cover, why you're the right person to cover it, and roughly how often you could contribute.
Send a tip
If you see something, hear something, or know something, send it. Meeting agendas nobody's looking at. Documents you think we should request. A story happening in your neighborhood that we wouldn't find on our own.
Tips don't need to be polished or fully formed. That's our job. Yours is just to get it to us.
We protect sources. If you want to share something sensitive and need to discuss how, email us first and we'll figure out the right channel.
Tips: [email protected]
Write a letter to the editor
Letters are how a community talks back. We read all of them and publish the ones that add something: information, a counterargument, a perspective we haven't heard.
Keep it reasonably concise, sign your real name and town, and make sure any factual claims you're standing behind are ones you can actually stand behind. We may edit for clarity. We won't edit your argument.
Submit: [email protected]. Put "Letter:" in the subject line.
Submit an opinion piece
Opinion pieces are argued positions on issues affecting the valley. We publish commentary from residents, business owners, local officials writing outside their official capacity, and people with genuine knowledge and a stake in the community.
We don't require you to agree with us. We do require you to make an argument, support it with facts, and own it with your name. Disclose relevant affiliations or conflicts. We publish the disclosure alongside the piece.
We'll work with you editorially. Final decisions are ours.
Submit: [email protected]. Put "Opinion:" in the subject line.
Support the Signal
We built The Valley Signal to be free, independent, and answerable to the people who live here. No advertisers. No corporate chain.
If you're a local business and you want to put your name in front of Teton Valley readers, we'll talk. If you want to support what we're doing and get something in return, we'll figure something out. If you want to throw money at independent local news because you believe in it, we respect that and we'll take it.
Email [email protected] and we'll have a real conversation.
Just say something
Question, gripe, correction, or something you think we should know. [email protected]. We read everything.