How Juncture works

Juncture puts you at the centre of the news. Here's how the pieces fit.

Two kinds of circles

• Places are your personal lenses: *Present* (where you live now), *Roots* (where you're from) and *Heart* (places you're connected to). They're how you read, and they're private to you.
• Communities are joinable groups, a place plus a culture plus its people, where you belong and post. The place is the lens; the community is the room.

Your places

Set your Present, Roots and Heart from the top of the home page, then switch between them anytime, or see them together in your overview. Together they keep you informed of your past, present and future, and being informed is the first step to getting involved.

Reach and beats

Reach widens or narrows a place from your city out to the whole country or the world. Beats filter by subject: politics, economy, society, culture, sports, education, health.

Communities

Join the communities for where you live and the cultures you belong to, and post your news, events, jobs and more to them. Each community can stand on its own feet: its editors can offer clearly-labelled local sponsorships, kept out of the reading flow, and never shown to supporters, and share in what that brings in. The result is a self-sustaining local newsroom, owned by the people it serves rather than a distant headquarters.

Reporters and verification

Anyone can become a reporter and file reports. This is where we put AI to work, and only where it belongs: not creating the news, but gating it. Nib, our editor-in-chief AI, consolidates multiple reports into one verified story, verifies and fact-checks it against red-flag rules you can read, and hands anything sensitive to human moderators. Impartial at the gate, never at the pen. Reporters earn ranks and recognition. Over time this turns ordinary residents into credited, community-rooted journalists, a new generation of local reporters rebuilding the news from the ground up, in the places that need it most.

Your language and currency

The whole site is multilingual, switch anytime. Temperatures show in °C or °F and money in your currency, auto-selected from your country. We even capture the original language, units and currency of every report, so we can translate and convert it faithfully.

Ready to jump in? Start at Post or apply to report.