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8 Countries
filing this month
20 Named reporters
across US, Nigeria, Kenya, India, Mexico, Uganda, Ethiopia, Bahamas
26 Dispatches
shipped in May 2026
100+ Denver Q1 archive
plus active Philly + the podcast
Pre-launch · practice period Network goes live · Jun 1, 2026 Page last updated · May 14, 2026
Today

Open bounties, anyone can pick these up.

Bounties are how the network organizes around stories worth telling. Anyone can post a question and attach money to it. Anyone can pick it up and report it. The reporter gets paid on delivery. Strongest weekly submissions earn $20 tips on top of the bounty itself once Season 01 opens.

What follows is what’s open right now. The full list lives on poidh.

Active · extended one week

Find someone who remembers. Talk to them on tape.

An older person whose memory of a place, a movement, or a moment hasn’t been recorded yet. Sit with them. Ask. Shoot. Submit. Two-minute clip minimum, no upper limit.

Submissions in: multiple Boosted by: poidh founder Kenny Status: open
Pick it up on poidh →
Going up this week

Pizza on tape. The slice tells the story.

What does a slice mean where you live? Pizza is a global object that means something different in every city. Document yours, the place, the person behind the counter, what their slice tells you about the neighborhood it’s in.

Status: opening Funded in collaboration with the pizzaDAO community
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Field

From the ground, eight countries, twenty reporters.

The field network is live and filing. Nigeria desk runs daily out of Lagos and Abuja. Kenya desk runs daily out of Nairobi. The U.S. beat opens with Philly and Charlotte. Every dispatch below was shot, edited, and shipped this month by a named reporter, mostly on phones, mostly funded through poidh.xyz/a/wethemmedia.

Bounty board · one question, five voices, two countries

Internet & truth: has the internet made it easier, harder, or just noisier?

One bounty went up on the board. Five reporters across Nigeria and Kenya picked it up and brought it to people on the street. Five answers. One on subjective truth and comparing sources. One on scams versus debunkers. One on the double-edged sword of due diligence. Two from Nairobi on AI, sus pricing, and how to stay safe online. Same question, different country, real people, on tape. Commissioned via poidh.xyz/a/wethemmedia.

Nigeria. On the ground.

May 2026 · 12 dispatches shipped
Kafani · 9:39
Lagos · UNILAG · 2026

What is Ethereum? UNILAG street interviews.

Kafani hits the University of Lagos with one question: what is Ethereum? Live wallet walkthrough included.

Status: shipped
Kafani · 5:00
Lagos · Street · 2026

What do Nigerians think of America?

Kafani back on the streets. The answers don't pull punches. Racism, school shootings, fashion, and the dollar.

Status: shipped
Kaspa · 9:03
Nigeria · Campus · 2026

What made you smile today?

Kaspa on campus asking the simplest question with the deepest answers. Moms, exams, faith, friends.

Status: shipped
John Bayode
Lagos · Market · 2026

How Nigeria has changed.

John Bayode interviews a market elder on what has changed in his lifetime. 'Graduates cannot speak two correct sentences.'

Status: shipped
John Bayode · Weekly
Lagos · Weekly Series · 2026

Social anxiety in Nigeria.

A Nigerian student opens up about social anxiety. 'All eyes on me, everything went black.' First in the weekly series.

Status: shipped
Gift · Short
Nigeria · Church · 2026

Inside a Nigerian church service.

Gift takes the camera into a Nigerian church service. Community and culture, caught and presented from inside the room.

Status: shipped
Gift · Campus
Lagos · Power Crisis · 2026

How Nigerian students survive the power outages.

Gift asks campus students how the lack of electricity affects their lives. Reading, projects, exams, charging phones, survival mode.

Status: shipped
WalkwithGod · poidh
Abuja · Phone-shot · 2026

What do Nigerians think of the USA?

WalkwithGod catches Paul in Abuja. US inflation, single-party politics, and why Jay-Z is top notch. Filed for a poidh bounty, phone-shot.

Status: shipped
Gift · Campus
Nigeria · Campus · 2026

Post-graduation pressure in Nigeria.

Gift asks Son of God about post-grad pressure. 'Being the head of the family' is the pressure that lands. Plus peers with connections.

Status: shipped

India. On the ground.

May 2026 · 1 dispatch shipped

Mexico. On the ground.

May 2026 · 1 dispatch shipped
Programs

Live programs underneath the field.

Three programs run alongside the country desks. The Denver Q1 archive (100+ street interviews, shot solo on a phone) is the proof of concept the rest of the network is built on. Philadelphia is the active U.S. beat. Let's Talk About ETH: Around the World is the cohosted show with BetterCallZaal and Ohnahji B, six episodes deep.

Long-form pieces published on the blog: four pieces on Paragraph going back to 2023, ETH Denver 2024 reflection, the Black Blockchain Summit, Ep. 18 with Amaya Langaigne, Web3 Africa in Motion. Onchain-signed and permanent. See the full Portfolio →

Submissions

Submissions to the network. In progress.

Contributors are already shooting. Gift in Lagos. Bayo in Abuja. Moto and Fidesio in Nairobi. Marissa biking across the U.S. and reporting from a different state each month. Sicka submitting from Nigeria through power outages and patchy data. Devin starting in North Carolina. Wuraola editing the Channel 5 footage from Q1.

Most of what they’re shooting goes up after Jun 1, 2026, when the network officially opens, the weekly $20 tip pool activates, and submissions are evaluated for retainer slots. Until then, what surfaces here is the work that’s already shipped.

Live submission feed · opens June 1, 2026

This is where every contributor submission will land, named, dated, linked, and evaluated. We’re building it in public. If you’re shooting work for We Them Media right now, drop your submission on poidh and we’ll surface it here once the season opens.

The Arc

The arc from launch to completion.

Season 01 is a single twelve-month arc with two real tentpoles: June 1 launch and November 30 completion. December is rest. Whatever Season 02 looks like opens after a deliberate pause.

  • Now · pre-launch Practice period. Bounties open today, contributors shooting, applications going to fiscal sponsors and patrons. Website and standards public. Editorial guidelines being drafted with collaborators.
  • May 2026 Standards page published as a standalone document. Tiny News Collective application submitted. Token of patronage auction live on Nouns Builder.
  • Jun 1, 2026 Network goes live. Weekly $20 tip pool activates. The bounty match pool unlocks once token #1 sells. The full publishing stack runs end-to-end for the first time.
  • Jun → Aug 2026 The practice period. Contributors out shooting weekly. Editors active. Submissions evaluated. The model gets tested under real conditions in real cities, Lagos, Abuja, Nairobi, Philadelphia, Charlotte, plus Marissa’s rolling state-by-state beat.
  • Q3 2026 First pilot integration with bonfires.ai, a single story’s research workflow captured end to end. CTRL+X licensing rails scoped for a select set of pieces.
  • Q4 2026 Methodology audit, in public. What worked. What didn’t. What we’d change. Twelve strongest contributors selected for retainer slots as lead voices for their cities.
  • Nov 30, 2026 Season 01 closes. Completion conversation with the team, recorded, public, named acknowledgments for everyone who showed up across the year. December is rest. Season 02 plans open in January 2027.

The whole arc is described in more depth on the Methods page alongside the publishing stack and the editorial principles that govern what gets shipped.

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