Writer's Guidelines

1. The Palestine Report Online is very interested in recruiting stringers to write on a piece-by-piece basis. In most circumstances, compensation is offered for articles. Interested writers should look at back issues of the Report to get a sense of departments and style.

2. All articles written for the Palestine Report are sold to us on a first international rights basis. Once an article is printed in the Report, all rights revert back to the author for reprinting or reuse as the author sees fit.

All inquiries to the Editors requesting the right to reprint articles published in the Palestine Report will be directed to the stringer.

3. All articles written by stringers for the Palestine Report must be their original work, well researched with original quotes. If quotes are taken from another news agency report, that report should be cited as the source of the quote. Stringers may be asked to produce the names and phone numbers of all sources for additional fact checking, if questions are raised about the source's validity.

Anonymous sources should only be used in cases when the source's life or livelihood is in danger and only in cases where the information that they give can be supported by other sources or facts. The Report's Editors may also choose to withhold the name of a sex crime victim or underage criminal suspect, if necessary.

4. While the Palestine Report realizes that its writers must sell stories repeatedly in order to make a living, its Editors feel strongly that the publication has a right to protect its "investment" in their work. Therefore, all original articles submitted to the Palestine Report must NOT have been printed elsewhere previously, nor should they appear simultaneously in any other publication. This policy applies even when the article is altered in the editing process or translated to another language.

In cases when reprints from other publications are used in the Palestine Report, the Editors will note that fact in the Report.

5. Editorial meetings are held on Thursday mornings every week at 10 AM. Story ideas for coming issues will be discussed at that time, and then discussed with stringers. If regular stringers have a story idea for that week, it should be communicated to the Managing Editor by that time so that the entire editorial staff may discuss the idea.

6. All stringers must submit their finished work by no later than Monday at 3 PM of every publishing week. At that time, the Managing Editor will read and edit the articles, ask any needed questions of the writer, and then turn them over for final editing by the Editor in Chief. If work is not submitted at this time, another article will take its place in the Report.

7. The Editors reserve the right to reject any article at any time.

8. Story ideas and submissions should be sent to:


Palestine Report Online
P.O. Box 25047,
East Jerusalem,
via Israel
or to our e-mail account, palreport@jmcc.org

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