The Terminal strives to be a hub for information and conversation in Birmingham, Alabama and its metropolitan area. As a result, we’re in the process of establishing some editorial guidelines. They’re guidelines because, well we’re kind of blazing a new trail here and we’ve got to establish some credibility. We also know that due to the nature of how we publish our information we needed to have some parameters.
If we haven’t scared you off yet, here we go:
We figured you’d be interested in knowing what we stand for:
- The Terminal shall preserve at all times the highest levels of integrity & independence.
- Errors of fact will be posted as prominently as the original item, with update clearly posted on original as well.
- The Terminal shall not allow politics or private companies to influence our stories, allowing us to serve as an independent, critical news & information source for the Birmingham region.
As we get started, we are limiting our stories to Birmingham, Alabama and the cities immediately adjacent to it. If you’re a metro area native or someone who’s moved here and loves it and you’re interested in providing content for The Terminal, we ask that you submit a writing sample/photograph/podcast (or two) or links to your personal blog to our publisher/managing editor/resident gopher André Natta for a username and password.
Anyone interested in submitting story ideas, calendar entries and/or writing for Timetable should contact us at timetable@bhamterminal.com.
We will also accept photo essays for either of these sections soon. We will be publishing guidelines for photo submissions in the near future.
NOTE: We will be asking all contributors to apply for a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. We just feel it’s the right thing to do.
Please keep your pieces to approximately 750-1,000 words, we’d really appreciate it.
We’re going to ask that those that would like to submit editorials for publication please submit their name and e-mail address. If we cannot validate the address, we will not publish the editorial. Most important of all, posts allowed in this section that are considered slander or constituting libel WILL NOT BE ALLOWED! (That goes for the entire site actually, but we felt like stressing it here 
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Submit your “letters” to managing editor André Natta at andre@bhamterminal.com.
Compensation for submissions
At this time, The Terminal is not able to pay writers for their stories. We hope to be able to do so eventually. In the meantime writers will be provided with a link from the site’s staff page to their personal blog if it is available. The link to the sites will not necessarily constitute an endorsement from The Terminal. We may also be able to provide a perk or two from time to time (though we’re not going to guarantee that).
We reserve the right to edit any work. If time allows, we will share these edits with you and we may ask that you revise and resubmit your piece. It’s in both our and your best interest that we do this. We’d ask you to run your story idea by us ahead of timeand let us know when it’ll be ready.
Thanks for your interest, and enjoy the ride!
