About Us

Upclosenews.com is owned by Joey Lemmons Media LLC. Upclosenews.com was created to allow anyone with an interest to report the news or sports a platform to report in their local market. Upclosenews.com is a broadcast platform that will allow you to report local news and sports over the Internet. No longer does a person have to work for a news agency to get his or her reports broadcast. Now anyone can report as long as you take our simple course on reporting and uphold the standards set by upclosenews.com.

We have created a network that will allow any city or town to have its own local news channel for local reporting. This network allows viewers to logon to upclosenews and see reporters from their home town telling the news as it happens. Hobbyist, high school and college journalism students can now report the news in their communities to keep local residents up on the news that only has been available in cities with broadcast TV stations. Each report can be no longer than 5 minutes in length. This is enough time to tell who, what, when, where, how, and why of most news reports. Reports recorded longer than 5 minutes can be edited down to 5 minutes to produce a more professional report that is concise and energetic.

We want viewers to enjoy watching Upclosenews.com. We want your reporting to be the topic viewers discuss at home and the office. At Upclosenews.com, we want our network to help make you famous in your community and improve your reporting skills. For aspiring journalism students, this may be the platform that you need to be noticed by a TV station looking for a new reporter to cover sports, weather, or news. Each report that is ported will be shown to local viewers when they logon to Upclosenews.com. Therefore, reports that you post on our network will be seen by hundreds and maybe thousands of people in your hometown and surrounding communities. We hope that you will post quality reporting on a regular basis. You can even post new reports daily or as often as you like so long as they are new reports with new content.

Upclosenews.com wishes you great success on launching your creative talents into reporting local sports and news. We just ask that you keep your content clean, legal, and viewable by the entire family. Don’t post anything on our network that would not pass a G or PG rating. Please do not use any curse words or racial comments. This network will be accessible to your community and to anyone in the entire world who wishes to view the reporting in your community. There is no charge to viewers or to reporters who post on this network. Also, Upclosenews.com is accessible on your PC and by PDA’s and mobile cell phones with internet access. Upclosenews.com hopes everyone will enjoy using our network for local reporting and viewing.