Truthout

Truthout welcomes submissions from both well-known and beginning authors, video and audio reporters, photographers and artists. We regret that we are only able to publish a small portion of these submissions and, in general, only respond to those we plan to use. Any submission that does not conform to the formatting and substantive guidelines below will be subject to summary rejection. Women and persons of color are encouraged to submit.

Truthout is a small nonprofit organization and, unless otherwise stated, it will be assumed that submissions are offered gratis and that Truthout's editors may choose to publish them on either Truthout or our sister site, BuzzFlash.

Please familiarize yourself with Truthout's content before sending us your work. We look for original news stories and news analysis pieces with broad national appeal. We're especially interested in coverage of issues that slip under the radar of the mainstream media.

We strongly suggest including external links - which must appear as urls in brackets immediately following pertinent words (not as embedded hyperlinks) - and/or manually created (not hotlinked) footnotes throughout your written work to provide both context and support for your assertions. Links are the preferred citation method, but manually created footnotes are acceptable when an online version of the source is not available or online citation is otherwise inappropriate.

Truthout strongly prefers use of the editorial voice (eschewing "I," "me," "mine" and the general informality common to blog posts) in all submissions for publication.

Submissions devoted primarily to unsubstantiated opinion are strongly discouraged.

Open letters, press releases and rebuttals of original Truthout articles will not be published. Rebuttals may be posted to the Comments section of the original article.

SUBMISSIONS

REPRINTS

We are open to republishing work that has appeared elsewhere, as long as you currently hold the rights to reprint your work and have permission from the outlet where it has first appeared. If you are submitting an article for republication, please follow the formatting suggestions below for Reprints.

For Reprints: Please send the original url with the text of the article in the body of the email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Place "REPRINT:" followed by your last name/the name of the original publication in which your work appeared and the article title in the subject line of your email.

NO SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSION

Please DO NOT submit to Truthout simultaneously with a number of outlets: we want either original and exclusive submissions or reprints. Articles posted to any other site, including your own personal site must be submitted as "REPRINT."

 FOR TRUTHOUT ORIGINAL AND EXCLUSIVE SUBMISSIONS:

 Please send your clean final submission to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. as plain text with a txt or doc (never docx.) file attached and also copied into the body of your email. Include your name, contact information and a brief (one or two line) biography.

Place "Submission:" followed by your last name and the article title in the subject line of your email.

All submissions are subject to an editorial review process, copy-editing and possible headline change. Writers will be consulted if major editing is required. The review and publication process may take as long as three weeks or, exceptionally, even longer if the topic is not time sensitive. If there is a stale-by date or other critical time element to your submission, please indicate that prominently.

KEEP IT SHORT

For writers not previously published by Truthout, we suggest opinion submissions be limited to 750 words; news analysis to 1,200 words and straight news stories to 2,000 words. Please send final drafts only. Our staff is small and revisions are time-consuming. If intervening events between submission and publication necessitate revisions, please resubmit your original text with revisions highlighted or in bold text. Do not ever submit a file with tracked changes.

FORMAT APPROPRIATELY

• Place only a single space between sentences.
• Place only a single line break between paragraphs.
• Do not indent paragraphs.
• Turn off "word wrap" and turn off "smart quotes."
• All dates and times and months must be spelled out, i.e. Tuesday, 10 December 2010, never "last Tuesday," "next week," "tomorrow" etc. Since time of publication may vary significantly from time of submission, this is essential for the story to remain accurate and usable.
• Please spell check your work.
• If you are familiar with the html code for any relevant font style changes (bold, italic etc.) and/or for blockquoting, please use it in your submission.
• REFERENCES must appear as urls in brackets immediately following pertinent words (not as embedded hyperlinks) - and/or manually created (not hotlinked) footnotes.

Please note that any work published by Truthout will be copyright Truthout and any other site may reprint only with Truthout's permission. You will be able to repost to your personal site and trusted non-commercial outlets will also be given permission to reprint your article at no charge. All reprints must indicate "Copyright, Truthout.org. Reprinted with permission." Our choice to copyright our original material this way reflects our desire to spread reliable information, critical thought and progressive ideas in cooperation with others that share our goals.

POACHING: It has come to our attention that many articles that appeared originally on Truthout are being poached, i.e. republished without permission and/or credit to Truthout, which violates our copyright. As Truthout.org has internal editorial review and copy-editing processes that assure your work is presented professionally, we do require that when an article is subsequently posted elsewhere - including on a personal blog - it will be with the notation, "Copyright, Truthout.org. Reprinted with permission" with a hotlink to the original url.

MULTIMEDIA SUBMISSIONS

Truthout is on the lookout for online video content, photographs and images that highlight news topics with national appeal.

We are open to republishing work that has appeared elsewhere, as long as you currently hold the rights to reprint your work.

When sending your multimedia content, do not include any attachments. Send us a link - private or password protected if necessary - to your content. For example Flickr offers private links to send and Blip.tv allows videos to be password protected.

If we determine that we wish to use your content, we will email you with more information on how to send it to us.

Please use this format to submit content:

• Videos should not be longer than ten minutes, and should be non-compressed and in .MOV or .FLV format.
• Photos and images should be minimum 490 x 300 pixels and can be in .PDF, .JPEG, .GIF, .PNG or .TIFF format.
• Audio files should be in .MOV, .FLV, .MPEG-4 or MP3 format.

To send your submissions to the multimedia editors, email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with the link and password information to your work. Please include your name, contact information, a brief bio and proper credits and captions for photos.

Place "Multimedia Submission:" in the subject headline of your email, followed by the title of your work. You must be the sole copyright holder of your submissions, including any images that appear in your videos.

Publication on Truthout is voluntary, and both parties shall hold one another harmless from any damages resulting from said publication

PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT ITEMS THAT:

• are not yours (by rights) to submit, post, disseminate or transmit;
• are unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, obscene, harmful, tortuous, libelous or invasive of another's privacy;
• infringe or violate any party's copyright, trademark, trade secret, patent or other proprietary right;
• contain any viruses, worms or other harmful, disruptive, or destructive files, code or programs;
• include any unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, chain letters, spam, junk mail, or any other type of unsolicited mass email to people or entities that have not agreed to be part of such mailings.

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