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electronicIraq.net
About this Project
Guidelines for Content Submission
General information on submissions
Electronic Iraq is looking for high quality content relating to the US-Iraq conflict that stresses the humanitarian and international legal dimensions. The following guidelines are offered to help you identify writing/photographs that we would be interested in publishing or linking to.
Submissions may be sent to the Electronic Iraq webteam. Please read all the information on this page before attempting to submit material. If you need information that we haven't covered here, please write with questions.
While we will consider any submissions that meet the specifications below, due to limitations in our resources, submissions will not be acknowledged unless we intend to print them. For the same reason, Electronic Iraq does not explain why submissions are rejected. Please do not take this personally. There are many reasons why we don't print material, ranging from current work volume to other priorities that have nothing to do with the quality of your work.
We do not have the resources to pay for submissions. Articles and photos will be credited to the writer/photographer/organisation name with a link to the writer/photographer/organization's website (if available).
If you can send one or more images to illustrate your submission (eg. a photo of you for an OpEd, or a photo of a demonstration for an activist report), please let us know and please do read the guidelines below.
Photographs
General
Electronic Iraq is interested in donations of photographs by photographers and other visitors to Iraq that illustrate life in the country. In order to submit photographs, you must be the photographer or we must receive verifiable notice from the photographer that you are submitting images on their behalf. These will be used to illustrate articles as needed or, if you are submitting a body of work, we can offer them as a photo story.
File format
Web-optimized JPGs at 72 dpi resolution (Save for Web in Adobe Photoshop at 60% JPG quality or use comparable functions in Macromedia Fireworks or Adobe Image Ready). The largest edited size we will use on the site is 520 pixels wide. Sending high resolution images is fine (3-4MB file sizes at most) as we can resize them but please get in touch with the Electronic Iraq webteam if you plan to send more than a couple at this size.
Site image dimensions
These are written here for the Electronic Iraq webteam to refer people to in the cases where photographers need detailed specs. In general, we are happy to receive full-size images and resize them in-house.
Most common use: 254 pixels wide for in-article use with text wrap.
525 pixels wide for full page width at article level.
254 pixels wide for photo story/half-width use.
350 pixels wide for panoramic summary use and 150 pixels wide for nested summary use. Vertical dimensions must be thin or the image will dominate [pop-up example].
Writing
General
Except for the Iraq Diaries section of our site, which actively solicits submissions from Iraqis in Iraq, members of delegations and other visitors to Iraq, it is expected that contributions to the rest of Electronic Iraq are from people with some professional or academic interest in the country, including journalists writing articles in the commercial media.
Articles in the commercial media
If you are the author and can grant us permission to reprint, please do. If you see something you think we missed adding to the main section of our site (give us 24 hours), contact us to let us know.
Other contributions
Contributions to the various sections of Electronic Iraq -- ie. News & Analysis, Opinion/Editorial, International Law, Aid & Development and Action & Activism -- must include a 2-3 line bio that offers information about who you are, your area of work, and country of origin. Submissions that include photographs are greatly appreciated (see specifications above).
Iraq Diaries
Are you an Iraqi in Iraq or are you traveling to Iraq? Want to write about the humanitarian situation there, your experience of Iraqis, life during war? Diary entries are a powerful way of communicating how Iraqis experience the US-Iraq conflict and are an important eyewitness contribution to the international debate about the US-Iraq crisis. Photos appreciated (see specifications above).
© 2003-2005 Electronic Iraq/electronicIraq.net, a joint project from Voices in the Wilderness and The Electronic Intifada. Views expressed on this page may or may not be representative of Electronic Iraq or its founders. For website or publication reprint permission, please contact us. All other forms of mass reproduction for educational and activist use are encouraged. Page last updated: Jan 1, 2000 - 1:00:00 AM.
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