We could turn this into an interesting side project. sign up with this stuff as a "profile" of sorts, then update your profile with anything news worthy. Charge for exposure to journalists.
This way there's value added for the submitter (prompts, editing for errors and audience, pathway to exposure) and a buffer intake system for editors who want good, new, exclusive content of this sort.
I could probably sketch this out on a whiteboard in an afternoon, would be pretty fun.
...but since I'm writing this out publicly, as part of a group musing an idea, if I find anybody whole-cloth takes this concept and uses it without collaboration or any semblence of attribution, karma will catch you, and your future will be cursed and doomed in equal parts. Don't violate the Bill & Ted rule of "Be excellent to each other"