What the network is shooting right now — the bounties open today, the work being submitted, and the arc of Season 01 from June 1 launch to November 30 close. This page updates as the work lands.
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.
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.
Pick it up on poidh →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.
Watch the bounty board →Three live YouTube playlists carry the bulk of the work to date. Denver Q1 produced 100+ street interviews on zero budget. Philadelphia is in active production right now. The podcast is six episodes deep with cohosts in Kenya, Nigeria, and the U.S.
Maceo went out alone with a phone and ran the Denver pilot at zero budget. Proof of concept for the field model.
Uploads going up weekly through Q2. Same field model, second city, more contributors as we go.
Maceo with BetterCallZaal (The ZAO) and Ohnahji B (Ohnahji University). Six episodes deep. Guests across continents.
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 →
Contributors are already shooting. Gift in Lagos. Bayo in Abuja. Aziz 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.
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.
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.
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.
