{news} National Green Pages request for submissions

[Charlie Pillsbury]

This is a reminder to submit your Op.Eds., Cartoons,
Pictures or State Reports to Green Pages for the
Winter issue. Please pass this on to your states,
caucuses and committees.

Green Pages, the national newspaper of the Green Party
of the United States,
is looking for concise opinion pieces (op-eds) for the
winter, 2006 issue,
as well as timely reports from states, caucuses, and
committees. (Please see
reports guidelines below.)

Opinion submissions are evaluated by the entire
editorial board on the basis
of relevance, timeliness, writing quality, research
quality and diversity. A
publishable opinion piece is informative, grounded in
fact, and uses logical
argument to make its case. Topics specific to Green
issues preferred.

DEADLINES AND WHERE TO SEND YOUR GREEN NEWS

-Op-eds (max 800 words) and letters to the editor (max
200 words) should be
sent by Novenber 30 to  baatty at gmail.com
-Unsolicited news briefs (max 350 words) should be
sent by November 30 to
greenpages at greens.org .
-Cartoons, illustrations, and charts should be sent by
November 30 to
ninth.st at verizon.net.
-Photos for op-eds, photos of Greens in action for
unsolicited news briefs,
with captions and photographer credits, should be sent
by November 30 to
the section editor who is receiving the related
article. Please indicate which story they are for.
-Head shots for op-eds should be sent by November 30
to
baatty at gmail.com
-State reports (max 300 words) or Caucus or committee
reports (max 300 words) should be sent by November 30
to mccorq at comcast.net or contact if expecting late
breaking news.  Please note that if the state report
concerns election results, it may be included in the
elections section which will be extensive this issue.
-Photos or logos for state/caucus/committee reports,
with captions and photographer
credits, should be sent by November 30 to
mccorq at comcast.net, Please
indicate which report they are for.

***If you have story ideas that don't fall into the
above categories, get in
touch with us at greenpages at greens.org.

***All text should be sent as an attached Word
document. Include a byline
indicating your Green affiliation (i.e. what state, if
any, you are
registered in). Word counts will be strictly enforced.
Submissions that are
longer than the word counts suggested above or that
are received after the
due date will not be considered.***

REPORTS GUIDELINES

Whenever possible, we strongly encourage you to
identify Greens from your
state/caucus/committee with a journalism/media
background to prepare the
state report and photos. In most cases, the person/s
who have knowledge
about what has happened in the past couple of months
would best be used as a
source for the reporter rather than actually writing
the report.

Here are some tips to keep in mind:

-Reports should be kept to a maximum of 300 words. If
you have a longer
feature in mind about major events in your state, or a
profile of a Green
officeholder or activist who has accomplished
something of note that would
make a good feature story for Green Pages, please
contact Deyva Arthur at
darthur at nycap.rr.com as soon as possible with a brief
query.

-Reports should have an emphasis on newsworthiness.
Some examples:
accomplishments, recognitions, trends, major plans
(e.g., the state plans to
run a full slate of candidates next year), new
projects in the works, etc.

-Think about your piece visually and find out early on
who can provide a
photograph to run with the text.
-Reports are news briefs and should follow basic
journalism standards. In
general we suggest that reports follow traditional
inverted pyramid format
(i.e. the most important information should be at the
top-if the editors
need to cut the report due to space constraints, they
should be able to cut
the last paragraph first, then the second-to-last
paragraph, etc.)

-Use the third person ("they"), not first person
("we") in reporting about
your states/caucus/committee activities. Avoid
editorializing in the
reports-just
report on the facts about what's happening in the
state/caucus/committee.
Stick to the basics: what, when, where, why, who, and
how.

-Consider using brief quotes to give voice to Greens,
to offer different
viewpoints and perspectives, and for reader interest.

-Be concise! Edit out any extra words or phrases.
Identify somebody ahead of
time who can edit your piece to cut out the fat.

-Avoid cliches. We get a lot of reports that include
lines like, "It isn't
easy being Green in XX state," or "XX state is working
hard and is Green and
growing," or other generalizations. While we
appreciate the sentiments,
space for reports is limited, and we ask that you
focus on issues and
actions.

-Avoid long lists and other information that make for
dull reading.

-Plan accordingly. Identify one or more writers,
photographers, and
editor/coordinators early on. We really appreciate
early submissions. Late
submissions cannot be accepted.

-Submit text as a Word document. Include a byline
indicating the reporter's
Green affiliation (i.e. what state, if any, they are
registered in).

-Photos should be JPGs, 200 dpi or larger, at a
physical size (height and
width) that they should be printed at. Minimum size is
1.875 inches wide
(one column wide--for head shots, for example. Submit
larger photos if they
include many people or complicated activity.). Include
who should be
credited for the photo, and the photographer's Green
affiliation (i.e. what
state, if any, they are registered in). Be sure to
include a one-sentence
caption with the photo to explain the content of the
photo to readers.

For complete submission guidelines, the Green Pages
editorial policy and a
style sheet, visit:
http://www.gp.org/greenpages/submissions.php

Still have questions? Reach us at
greenpages at greens.org.

David McCorquodale
Delaware delegate and Co-chair, Green Pages
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