The Team
Postal address
NZ Catholic, PO Box 147-000, Ponsonby, Auckland 1034.
Phone and fax
Telephone (09) 360-3067; fax (09) 360-3065
Email
Guidelines for sending content
The following advice is taken from notes NZ Catholic newspaper sends its correspondents.
It may help anyone sending material for publication.
NZ Catholic has a strong emphasis on national news (from each of the six dioceses).
Reports should be kept short and succinct (usually under 300 words). Reports of
meetings and speeches in boring detail are not wanted. Instead, we want to keep
Catholic readers informed on what is happening in the Church and community, and
what is significant, in a factual and succinct way. Correspondents should keep in
mind readers in other parts of the country — e.g., a report from Invercargill should
interest a reader in Whangarei. Human interest angles are welcome.
NZ Catholic is published fortnightly (publication dates) but two or three pages
are completed each day, so the earlier we receive material the better chance it
has of being published.
Be accurate with names, dates, etc. Don't let your personal opinions intrude into
news reports. Just give the facts and let readers form their own opinions. Every
statement of opinion, whether in quotation marks or not, should be clearly attributed
to the person who made it.
Good pictures, preferably involving people doing something, are always welcome,
especially if they help to tell the story. These can be photographic prints or in
digital format (tif format preferred, or jpg). Digital pictures must have high resolution
(preferably 300 dots per inch). If you wish to send us digital pictures via email,
please let us know in your story submission using the email form above, and we will
reply with an address you can send the files to.
We seldom publish New Zealand-written stories about overseas subjects or events
(we already receive 20 times as much material from overseas news services as we
can publish). Because NZ Catholic's emphasis is on covering news, there are few
opportunities to publish short stories or poems.
Finally, but most important, before you send us anything, read it over through the
eyes of someone who is unfamiliar with the subject. It will be time well spent.
If you would like to send a story in, please use the form above.
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