publish your article

Posting a piece on indymedia's newswire

The Independent Media Center is a collectively run media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth. We work out of a love and inspiration for people to who continue to work for a better world, despite corporate media's distortions and unwillingness to cover the efforts to free humanity.

Indymedia is a democratic newswire. We want to see and hear the real stories, news, and opinions from around the world. While we struggle to maintain the news wire as a completely open fourm we do monitor it and remove posts.
You can see the decisons we have made by viewing the hidden articles page. In the overwhelming number of cases, stories have been removed for the following reasons: being comments, not news, duplicate posts, obviously false or libelous posts, or inappropriate content.
We are working on the technology to make this process more transparent, so that you can see when such decisions have been made, and why. In future, we want our audience to be part of this process too. For the meantime, you can check out stories that we have choosen to remove by looking at the hidden articles page.


Please use this form to contribute new stories and ideas. We think comments belong with the story being discussed. So to have your say in response to a story on the site, please use the add your comments link at the bottom of the stories.

We think stories contributed to this site should be free for non-profit re-use. Copy left is an idea central to indymedia. For more information, check out www.opencontent.org. If you want to change that for your story, please give your conditions in the summary.

You can use this form to publish your text article, audio segment, video footage, or picture. Please focus on activism issues and events. We (the people organising this site) may rearrange the display of submitted stories.

After stories have been published, they can be edited, linked or even deleted by the collective running this site, using the story administration page (password required).

Remember:

  • please post news items only, leave your comments for discussion areas
  • please try to post just one copy of your story - please only press the publish button once.

Publishing Form

Step 1:

 Give your piece a title

Author or producer of the piece you're posting

the summary (no more than 6 lines - include the duration of the piece if you are publishing audio or video)

including contact details below is optional but will mean our audience (including journalists) can contact you about your story, including for possible re-use in other places
email optional phone optional

address optional

language
the language of your submission

web address optional This provides a link to your website.

Step 2:

Text that you would like to appear with your story. If you are posting a text only piece, you can type or paste your story here.
the article (if you enter HTML code, select "html format" from the type of upload drop down box below)

Step 3: multimedia stories
Send in this file (limit 100 megs):

Audio/Video/Images: You need to select the proper type for the content you are uploading. If you are only uploading text, leave the setting on plain text. You can upload html tags in a story if you wish.

Type of upload:

Press the publish button only once. Uploading files can take a long time and the confirmation page won't be shown until after the file has finished uploading.