Republish Our Work

Unless otherwise noted, you can republish our articles for free under a Creative Commons license. Here’s what you need to know:

DO:

• You are required to credit Organ Mountain News and/or any co-reporting partners in the introduction or opening of the story. In the byline, we prefer “Author Name, Publication(s).” At the top of the text of your story, include a line that reads: “This story was originally published by Organ Mountain News.” You must link the name “Organ Mountain News” to the original URL of the story.
• If you’re republishing online, you must link to the URL of this story on organmountainnews.com and include all of the links from our story.
• Republish our photographs or illustrations — but only if “Organ Mountain News” is included in the credit line. You must include the full original credit in your story and link back to the story if publishing online. In some cases we may have licensed other artists’ work for our use but those may not be available for republishing. If you would like to republish art not credited to us, we can usually help. Just contact us at organmountainnews@gmail.com.
• It’s okay to put our stories on pages with ads, but not ads specifically sold against our stories. You can’t state or imply that donations to your organization support Organ Mountain News' work.
• Any website our stories appear on must include a prominent and effective way to contact you.
• If you share republished stories on social media, we’d appreciate being tagged in your posts. We have official accounts on Facebook, X, Instagram and Bluesky.

DON’T:

• Republishing is not available for any publication in print or online, including social media, that is less than 50% original content by the republisher. In other words, you can’t use our work to populate an aggregator, website or publication designed to improve rankings on search engines or primarily to gain revenue from network-based advertisements.
• You can’t edit our material, except to reflect relative changes in time, location and editorial style. (For example, “yesterday” can be changed to “last week,” and “Las Cruces, New Mexico” to “Las Cruces” or “here.”)
• It’s okay to put our stories on pages with ads, but not ads specifically sold against our stories. You can’t state or imply that donations to your organization support Organ Mountain News' work.
• You have no rights to sell, license, syndicate or otherwise represent yourself as the authorized owner of our material to any third parties. This means that you cannot actively publish or submit our work for syndication to third-party platforms or apps like Apple News or Google News.
• You can’t republish our material wholesale, or automatically; you need to select stories to be republished individually. (To inquire about syndication or licensing opportunities, contact our publisher, Damien Willis, at organmountainnews@gmail.com.)
• We do not generally permit translation of our stories into another language – but we are open to multi-language collaborations.

If you have any other questions, contact organmountainnews@gmail.com.

*NOTE: We borrowed and edited Creative Commons standards and policies from other news outlets who operate under similar guidelines. These standards are adopted from the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN), ProPublica and City Desk ABQ.