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The Speaker regularly publishes work from contributors, citizen journalists, and others around the world. You can submit news or photo / video-based works to editor [at] thespeaker.co with the subject line “Article: The Title Of Your Article.” Paste your article text / images directly into your email. Do not attach separate files.
The bases of submitting work for publication are as follows:
You must include:
- Headline
- Byline
- 250 words minimum, unless BREAKING news (80 words minimum)
- Links to sources for information (place the links in parenthesis within your article after the information they relate to)
- Image(s) (optional — must not be copyrighted)
- Use no copied material (except limited use of quotations). We will check all submissions and will not publish articles that include content that exists elsewhere on the internet.
Formatting for every article:
- Strip all rich text formatting — you can do this by copying your article text and right-click, paste-as-plain-text.
- Single space between sentences (no double spaces)
- Single space between paragraphs (no paragraphs without a single-space separation)
- Run a spell check
- Manually check all names and other words spell-checks cannot catch
Photographers:
- Accompany your work with a paragraph or more of text, explaining the broad issue in which your photographs should be understood
- Photographs should be jpeg or png
- Photographs should be max-width 1200px, max-height 1000px
- Photograph files should not be larger than 1 mb. They should be much smaller usually
- We will not use photographs with watermarks, even if they are yours
Further notes: The Speaker uses AP style. For new contributors, our editors will correct style in many cases, but not all.
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