Mountain Journal welcomes submissions in the form of regular news and feature stories written by experienced journalists, as well as photo essays, guest columns and commentaries, and letters to the editor. Feel free to reach out to us. All written content appearing on our virtual pages must be accurate, fact-checkable, and meet standards of decency and civility.

Mountain Journal will consider unsolicited submissions, and invite those interested in writing for MoJo to send story proposals to Managing Editor Joseph T. O'Connor at joe@mountainjournal.org. We will also entertain running previously-published pieces and fresh op-eds that have relevance to the issues covered here and to our readers.

We have a modest budget to pay our writers and hope that with the support of foundations and donations from valued readers who believe in public-interest journalism, we will continue to increase rates. 

Publish Our Stories

THE SHORT AND SWEET VERSION:

Yes, you’re welcome to republish articles and media originally produced and published by Mountain Journal. Expanding Montanans’ access to high-quality journalism is core to our mission. We appreciate you sharing the work with your readers. MoJo stories are published under a BY-NC-ND 4.0 US Creative Commons license. Here’s the legal code.

NOTABLE EXCEPTIONS: 

Mountain Journal occasionally republishes stories and media that originated elsewhere and to which we have no authority to grant republication permission. These stories are clearly identifiable by their bylines and other credits. If in doubt, please ask us. MoJo frequently accompanies articles with photography and photo-illustrations acquired under MoJo’s license with Adobe, Getty Images, or other stock art providers. Such images may not be republished without the republisher’s independent licensure. 

GENERAL CONDITIONS:

—You have to be an accredited news organization. Republication rights for noncommercial and nonprofit websites may be approved by request on a case-by-case basis. 

—Online republication of Mountain Journal stories is embargoed until the next calendar date following the date of MoJo’s original publication. 

—You must republish the whole story, credit us appropriately, and, if you’re republishing MoJo stories online, include a link to our original publication page. 

—You can’t sell the work separately or grant downstream publication rights to other republishers. 

—Please do not republish Mountain Journal stories online behind a paywall unless your content management system is unable to accommodate free access. 

—Republication of a Mountain Journal story constitutes your agreement to abide by the terms of this republication policy. We reserve the right to revoke an organization’s permission to republish MoJo content for abuse or neglect of these terms. 

—Address republication questions to joe@mountainjournal.org.

DETAILS:

• All MoJo content republished online or in print must credit “Mountain Journal” in the byline as follows: Author Name, Mountain Journal.
• All MoJo content republished in print or online must contain the following text at the top or bottom of the story: This story was originally published by Mountain Journal at mountainjournal.org. In online republications, the text mountainjournal.org must be hyperlinked to the story’s original publication page on mountainjournal.org.
• Webpages containing digitally republished MoJo content must contain HTML identifying the original article URL published on mountainjournal.org as the canonical URL. This article provides instructions for adding a canonical URL to your page.
• All republished MoJo content must contain all the hyperlinks contained in our originally published story. You also can’t add new hyperlinks in our article text. 
• All stories, graphics, videos, photos, and images produced by Mountain Journal — not including elements labeled as unavailable for republication — must be republished in their integrated entirety. Substantive edits for content or length without MoJo’s express approval prior to republication are not allowed. 
• You can edit Mountain Journal articles to conform to your house style. You can also change date indicators (“yesterday” to “last week,” for example) and orientation language to account for the time of republication and your readership’s locale. 
• If you localize a MoJo story with a sidebar or accompanying copy, you must clearly distinguish the localized content from MoJo-produced material. 
• Story art including photos, illustrations and graphics may not be republished independent of the article they originally accompany. In other words, you can’t keep our photography for your file or future use. Republished story art must be accompanied by its original caption and credit. 
• All digitally republished MoJo content distributed via newsletter or social media is subject to the terms above. 
• Some of the above conditions may be waived with advance permission from MoJo. Address republication questions or waiver requests to joe@mountainjournal.org.

IF YOU WOULD BE SO KIND:

—Our publication title style is Mountain Journal, not the Mountain Journal, and, on subsequent reference, MoJo, not MJ. 

—We’d appreciate it if you’d tag Mountain Journal (@themountainjournal on Facebook, Instagram and @Mountain Journal on LinkedIn) when sharing republished MoJo content on social media.

—We’d appreciate it if you’d notify Mountain Journal via email when you republish a MoJo story. Please email a link to the page where the story appears, or a pdf if republished in print, to joe@mountainjournal.org.

—If you regularly republish MoJo content, please consider supporting us so we can continue to make high-quality stories available for free republication. To discuss organizational support for MoJo, please contact our Director of Audience Engagement Nate Schoenfelder at nschoenfelder@montanafreepress.org.