Contact & Policies
Pitch an article or op-ed
Submit a Tip:
To submit an op-ed, learn more about article and op-ed guidelines or receive further guidance, please email campus@middlebury.edu. (Or visit our news tips page to submit an anonymous tip).
Op-ed Policy:
The Campus welcomes submissions from all members of the Middlebury community. Op-eds are typically 600-800 words in length and can include visuals, data or other instruments of expression where appropriate. An op-ed should include a clear statement of the author’s thesis, a coherent and precise argument, and consistent, jargon-free language. A Letter To The Editor is a direct response to an article which has recently been published in The Campus. Letters are typically 200-600 words in length, though longer letters will be considered.
All factual claims must be substantiated, and publication is contingent on successful completion of the same editing process that our writers go through. Requests for anonymous publication are granted only in exceptional cases. Please direct all questions, inquiries and submissions to campus@middlebury.edu.
The Campus has the right to refuse any op-ed submissions at its discretion. The Middlebury Campus is part of Middlebury College, which is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization; we do not publish political statements from candidates.
Op-ed Submission Timeline:
You are welcome to send op-eds at any point in the week. If your op-ed is received by Sunday at 4 p.m., we will try to include it for publication in the following Thursday’s issue. We operate a first-come, first-served policy for op-eds. Exceptions are at the discretion of the exec team and the senior opinions editor. A Letter To The Editor can be prioritized above an op-ed as it responds to an already published piece. The decision to prioritize a Letter To The Editor is also at the discretion of the executive team and the senior opinions editor.
Op-eds are reviewed on Sunday nights, and editors will send you your piece as a Google Doc with suggestions and feedback. You will review our feedback and respond to our edits on Monday and Tuesday, and the piece should be finalized on Tuesday night. If you do not respond to our edits in time, we reserve the right not to publish the piece. We then publish on Thursdays in print and online. We follow AP News style standards. Our editors may change some punctuation after you see the final draft to fit this style standard.
Op-ed Removal Policy:
As a general rule, The Campus does not remove op-eds that were previously published, even if your opinions have changed. As temporary stewards of this newspaper and this record, it is not in the power of any one Campus administration to choose to delete things from the record. Please consider this when publishing an op-ed in The Campus. You may reach out at campus@middlebury.edu to appeal your situation, but know that we rarely make exceptions. In most cases, we will offer you the opportunity to write a response to your own op-ed for publication.
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Please email campus@middlebury.edu with your inquiry and we will direct your request to the appropriate editor.
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