Become a contributor
You were already there.
Get the credit.
If you shoot fires, crashes and rescues on Long Island, Dispatch is where the write-up goes and your own site is where the album lives.
Create your contributor profileYour byline, and a link out
Your name on the story and a Full coverage link straight to your own site. Dispatch is a doorway to your work.
Your photos stay yours
Contributor photos remain the property of their creators. Edit, save as a draft, or remove any of your posts from your account.
Free, and no exclusivity
Nothing to pay. Post the same photos to your own feeds the same night.
Three steps
From the scene to the story.
01
Make an account
Sign in securely and choose the public name that will appear on your stories.
02
Add your website
It becomes the Full coverage link on everything you file.
03
File a dispatch
Call type, town, time, department, up to three photos, and two or three sentences.
Before you post
Short. Clear. Non-negotiable.
- Recaps only. Post during or after. Never get in the way of crews.
- Your own photographs. No victims’ faces, no plates, no graphic injuries.
- What you saw. No scanner traffic presented as eyewitness fact.
- Your name, your responsibility. Accuracy matters more than being first.