Guidelines
The Washington Examiner is interested in publishing tightly reasoned, fact-based, and timely contributors articles. Please keep article submissions to 700 words or fewer, or seek approval for longer-length pieces.
Send articles as plain text — with only necessary hyperlinks affixed to relevant words (please do not link to a whole sentence/many words) — pasted in the body of your email, to Contributors Editor Madeline Fry Schultz ([email protected]). Be sure to include a one- to two-line author credit at the end of your text, containing relevant information about the author’s occupation or expertise in the subject being addressed. If you have a submission from a member of Congress, please direct it to Kaylee McGhee White ([email protected]).
Please mind the following:
- Do not submit articles as attachments.
- Do not submit articles formatted as open letters.
- Do not submit articles that contain sub-heads.
- Do not submit articles containing redirected links.
- Please link to Washington Examiner articles wherever possible.
- Use % instead of percent.
- Use — instead of alternate dashes such as —
As a rule, we only publish articles that are offered to us exclusively. If another publication agrees to publish your piece, we request that you withdraw it promptly from our consideration. Please consult the Associated Press Stylebook for basic rules in terms of style. (Common example: Do not use personal titles such as “Mr.” or “Mrs.” before surnames.) Be prepared to provide credible and complete documentation of the factual or logical basis of every statement contained in your submission. (Do include hyperlinks to back up your assertions.)
If you submit an article to the Washington Examiner, you are under obligation, without being asked, to disclose to us any third party that is paying you to write your article, as well as ANY POSSIBLE conflicts of interest. This includes any political affiliations in relation to board memberships, advisory committees, etc. This is very important. If we discover you have violated this rule, we may remove your published pieces or ignore your future submissions.
Bear in mind when writing that attacks on individuals’ character, ethnicity, religion, birthplace, parentage, sexual orientation, and personality are not substitutes for logical argumentation, careful presentation of fact, and intellectual civility. Be familiar with and avoid both formal and informal logical fallacies when constructing your arguments. Ensure to post your article to social media/actively promote it. We occasionally receive requests from authors (especially students) to remove pieces they wrote months or years ago. We do not honor such requests. Caveat scriptor. Thank you for your kind attention.
