Editorial Guidelines
Editorial Guidelines
Thank you for your interest in The Exception Magazine, a news, culture and entertainment magazine published online at ExceptionMagazine.com. The Exception Magazine is wholly owned and published by Liberalati LLC, a media firm headquartered in the State of Maine, USA.
Our magazine is a collaborative effort and we welcome a variety of voices from across the United States and around the world. We are committed to the highest standards of journalistic excellence and hope these guidelines help you with your submission. Use these guidelines to find out which topics we cover and also how we expect our contributors to format and edit their articles.
Topic Coverage
The Exception Magazine covers six verticals: news, culture, entertainment, politics, life and world. Please contact an Exception Magazine editor at editor@exceptionmag.com for specific questions.
Editors Defined
Editors have the authority to collect, edit and publish posts on behalf of The Exception Magazine.
Submission Defined
Submissions are any content emailed or mailed to The Exception Magazine. We accept investigative essays around 750 words and short news dispatches and guest editorials between 250-750 words. Please contact our editors for details about other media submissions. We also accept comments on any story published.
• Include a title and subhead
• Insert all relevant hyperlinks; do not use more than three hyperlinks
• Use clear, conversational, straightforward English
• Do not use slang or swear words
• Spell out acronyms or abbreviations the first time you use them
• Include all titles of standards, in addition to standard designations
• Define all jargon
• Author must disclose if they have a vested financial interest in products or services mentioned
• Every effort must be made to assure that content is accurate and that all sides are presented fairly
• The author is responsible to make reasonable attempts to contact and get a representative opinion of all persons or organizations covered in news reports
• Editorials, analytical articles and commentary will be held to the same standards of accuracy with respect to facts as news reports
• The author should submit a short biography of no more than 75 words
• Send charts, graphs, diagrams, photographs, illustrations and cartoons which the author has the right to submit to The Exception Magazine
• Suggested captions and credits should accompany all artwork
• Emailing original photographs or illustrations signifies The Exception has permission for use on our platform
• Please proofread for spelling and grammar before submitting your articles
• Authors should include links to their own sites and a bio so we can help drive traffic back to an author's site.
Exclusivity and Copyright
Submission of a manuscript for publication to The Exception Magazine signifies the author's agreement to assign copyright or grant a license to Liberalati LLC and its wholly owned subsidiary, The Exception Magazine. Authors may publish their articles in other media so long as this does not conflict with Liberalati LLC’s full publication rights at any point in time. If you have any questions regarding our copyright policy, see our Terms of Service before choosing to submit content.
Acceptance for Publication
Submissions are published at our discretion. The Exception Magazine editors will review all contributions and accept, return to the author for revision, or reject the article. All essay submissions accepted for publication by us will be acknowledged in writing to the original author via e-mail prior to publication. While every effort will be made to coordinate the editing process with an article’s author, we reserve the right to edit submissions for length, style and clarity prior to publication.
Attribution
The author must include his or her legal name and as appropriate, their affiliated organizations for published credit with their submissions. We will include an author’s contact information only upon request. We accept anonymous tips but any content submitted without a legal name (including aliases) may or may not be edited and published at the discretion of our editors.
Deadlines
We generally expect articles to be delivered within two weeks of an assignment. Please coordinate with an Exception Magazine editor.
Quotations and References
Readers should be able to assume that every word between quotation marks is what the speaker or writer said. Credit shall be given to the source of any material referenced by an author, including any material from newspapers, magazines, books and broadcasts, as well as news agencies. Please include all relevant hyperlinks.
Fact-Checking
Writers submitting work to The Exception Magazine are accountable in the first instance for their own accuracy and may, in some cases, be solely responsible for fact-checking. Writers are responsible for verification of all facts prior to filing their story with The Exception Magazine, unless deadlines prevent completion of the fact-checking by the article's due date. In these cases, authors are responsible for identifying for The Exception Magazine’s editorial staff that fact-checking is required prior to publication.
Truth and Accuracy
We strive to be accurate and establish the truth of what has happened. We will be honest and open about what we do not know and avoid unfounded speculation. Authors that have been found to knowingly lie in their reports shall be banned from submitting content to us for a time determined by The Exception Magazine’s editors.
Revisions
All contributions are subject to editing for space, clarity and conformity with The Exception Magazine’s style. The editors reserve the right, when necessary, to request manuscript revisions from the original author or to incorporate revisions directly. Editors will send edited articles to the author for review before publication. If an author is unable to respond by the identified deadline, The Exception Magazine reserves the right to be able to move forward with publication of the edited article.
Corrections
The Exception Magazine recognizes an ethical responsibility to correct all factual errors, large or small, brought to its attention. If a correction is warranted, we will make every effort to make updates or publish a correction as a short post immediately in the section where the error was first published.
Rebuttals
The Exception Magazine will consider publishing responses from anyone criticized by editorial content.
Payment and Expenses
The Exception Magazine generally does not offer payment for the publication of submitted content. Any paid writing assignments shall be at The Exception Magazine’s discretion and the subject of a contractual agreement between an author and Liberalati LLC. If you have any questions regarding payment and expenses, contact an Exception Magazine editor or representative of Liberalati LLC before choosing to submit content.
Technical Requirements
All submissions to The Exception Magazine must be sent in an email to the editors of the appropriate site section. Please send content as an attachment to the e-mail, not in the body of the message. In an additional attached document, the author should include their biographical information and any contact information, including phone numbers and email addresses of people or organizations mentioned in their article.
External Citations
Articles or stories that appear in The Exception Magazine may be cited or syndicated by other media companies. The Exception Magazine reserves the right to use any content submitted to The Exception Magazine in its marketing or promotional materials.
Print Edition
The Exception Magazine is currently only available online. However, we have received requests from our readers to start publishing a print edition of our news magazine. We reserve the right to use any content submitted to us in a print edition in the future.
Updated Editorial Guidelines
The Exception Magazine may update or modify these editorial guidelines at any time.
Contact Information
Contributions can be submitted via e-mail to editor@exceptionmag.com.
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