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Southwest Florida
Watershed Council
“Water
Column” Modus Operandi
May 3, 2002
- All
writers prepare columns voluntarily – there will be no remuneration paid
to columnists.
- All
writers will be members of the Watershed Council.
- All
articles will be educational in nature – they will not take positions on
issues unless the Watershed Council has reached a consensus-based decision
to do so.
- Articles
should be no shorter than 200 words, and no longer than 1,000 words.
- All
articles will be subject to two (or more) layers of editorial review:
by the Watershed Council member serving as Water Column Project
Manager (by default, me, at least for this year) for content, grammar and
syntax; and by the staffs of newspapers to which the articles are sent.
- Prior
to sending edited articles to newspapers, the Water Column Project Manager
will send the revised article to the original writer for further editing
and/or final approval. If
agreement cannot be reached that an article is appropriate for submission to
newspapers, it will be referred to the Watershed Council’s Board of
Directors and/or the Watershed Council at large for further review, and will
not be submitted to the newspapers until a resolution is reached.
- Articles
will be submitted to the Water Column Project Manager via email (preferably
as Word documents).
- Articles
(with suggested headlines) may be submitted to the Water Column Project
Manager before their due date. In
the event that a writer realizes that he or she will be unable to submit an
article on time, he or she will either secure an alternate writer or submit
material to the Water Column Project Manager that can easily be used to
prepare an article by another writer at least one week prior to the due date
for the article.
- Each
writer will submit a passport-style
photograph as a jpeg file to the Water Column Project Manager with his or
her first article. The
photograph may appear with articles when they are published.
- Bylines
will read “Name is a Title with Business and a member
of the Southwest Florida Watershed Council.”
- There
is no guarantee that articles submitted to newspapers will
be published.
- The
Water Column Project Manager will attempt to create and maintain a log of
all articles that are published, and will submit reports to the Watershed
Council on a bi-annual basis.
- All
articles may be posted on the web site and/or used for other educational and
promotional programs of the Watershed Council.
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