Write for Detroit Sports Nation.
Detroit Sports Nation covers the Lions, Red Wings, Tigers, and Pistons for fans who bleed blue and orange — and every other Detroit shade. The work spans all four major sports year-round, so you need to be versatile and fast. Detroit fans are loyal and loud; they'll notice if you don't take their teams seriously.
Free. About an hour, in one sitting. You'll know where you stand either way.
Know the door your story walks through.
This is the single most useful thing on this page. A headline that works on Discover is not the headline that works in a newsletter, and writing for the wrong one is the most common way a good writer underperforms here.
Where most of the reading happens.
- Google Discover
Starting rates, before you spend an hour on this.
$10 per post to start
A flat fee for every post that's published. $10 is the base; pay rises with experience and with how you score on the writing test. Best for writers who want to file a steady number of stories a week.
Paid per thousand views your stories earn, on our site and through syndication partners such as MSN and Yahoo. Rewards writers whose headlines travel.
A fixed monthly fee for an agreed publishing schedule. For writers who want to cover a beat as a regular part of the team.
Which plan applies depends on the role and is agreed with the editor before you start. What you score on this test moves the number from day one.
Writer
Dependable, resourceful, gritty writers who can adjust with the ebbs and flows of the publishing industry.
Starts at $15 per post. Pay depends on experience and on how you score on the writing test, so strong headlines and a strong post move the number from day one. You'll cover news as it breaks, some weeks heavier than others. The writers who do well here keep filing when the calendar is quiet and pick up the pace when it isn't.
One test covers every role here — take it once and the editors read it against all of them.
Detroit Sports Nation is an independent outlet covering all Detroit professional sports. The editorial mix is news, analysis, game coverage, and roster takes. Editors want writers who can stay accurate under deadline pressure and write with the confidence of someone who's watched these teams for years.
- Write everything in the fields provided. Every headline and the post are typed here, on this page, while the clock runs.
- Don't paste from another program or an AI tool. Pasted text is detected and recorded. It counts against your score, and the reviewer sees exactly how much of your work arrived that way.
- Each submit is final. You can't go back to change a headline or the post once it's in, so read it once before you press the button. Please finish in one sitting: starting and stopping counts as an attempt, and after three the test closes for a while.
Moving your own sentences around inside a field is fine and isn't counted. Reading the source article in a new tab is expected; the clock keeps running while you do.