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 can only respond to those we plan to use.
Please familiarize yourself with Truthout's content before sending us your work. We are looking for original news stories and opinion pieces with broad national appeal. We're especially interested in coverage of issues that slip under the radar of the mainstream media.
Article Submissions
We are open to republishing work that has appeared elsewhere, as long as you currently hold the rights to reprint your work.
For writers not previously published by Truthout, we suggest opinion submissions be limited to 1000 words; news stories to 2000 words.
We strongly suggest including external links throughout your written work to provide both context and support for your assertions.
Now, a couple of format-related notes:
- 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"
Then send your clean submission to editor@truthout.org as plain text with a text file attached, copied into the body of your email. Include your name, contact information and a brief bio.
Place "Submission:" followed by your title in the subject line of your email.
Publication on Truthout is voluntary, and both parties shall hold one another harmless from any damages resulting from said publication.
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 then 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 or .TIFF format.
- Audio files should be in .MOV, .FLV, .MPEG-4 or MP3 format.
To send your submissions to the multimedia editors, email multimedia@truthout.org with the link and password information to your work. Please include your name, contact information, a brief bio and proper credits.
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.
Do Not Submit Items That:
- 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; or
- are not yours (by rights) to submit, post, disseminate or transmit.
