Each week The View from Fez gets emails from people with stories they think we should publish. When the story is about new business ventures, real estate offers and so on, we politely decline. Other stories are full of scandal and juicy little rumours - and again we decline. So, to save some people the trouble of wasting precious time emailing, we thought it would be good to set out our story guidelines.
We do like to get tips on breaking news.
We love human interest stories.
(This could include such things as tales of your adventures in Fez, or Morocco in general.)
We always like stories of cultural or historical value.
We publish recipes from time to time so feel free to share your favourites.
Please note that we do share our stories with a large number of sites that have permission to copy our articles. This includes major sites such as AgoraVox and the English language radio service in Morocco which often broadcasts interviews with people featured in our stories.
If you would like to write an item yourself then we would be happy to publish it under your name. But do note that with few exceptions we do not pay a fee.
The story should be of general interest to both Moroccan and expat readers. Stories should be no longer than 500 words. If there is further work to be done such as research, we are happy to assist.
Before submitting a story, please ask yourself the following questions:
(1) Would you be prepared to be quoted? If not we probably won't publish.
(2) Is it really interesting? If we think so we will fact check and probably publish
(3) Can you supply one or more photographs? We love a good pic.
Send your news tip, story idea or written article to The View from Fez : Our email is: fes.riad@gmail.com
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