Music news submission

Music News is the category on KDHX.org for interviews, features, lists and other essays related to music. All articles should be substantive (not just a short blurb about your show or mention of an upcoming concert; those belong on your DJ show page) and relevant to the KDHX audience. You may also submit album or concert reviews to this category; the editor will move them to the review section for you.

Before you begin, it's vital that you prepare your text in a clean manner for pasting:

Use single space. Do not use indents for paragraphs. Instead, just put in a clean double return between paragraphs. Turn off smart quotes and/or use this tool to clean up your text before pasting: http://jhy.io/tools/convert-word-to-plain-text

Your text, before pasting in to KDHX.org editor, should look essentially like this:

Finally, KDHX strives to use AP Style. Review or consult this Wiki page and do your best:

http://wiki.kdhx.org/wiki/KDHX_online_writing_style

Submitting your article

1. Click Log in/My Account on upper right of KDHX.org home page. If you've forgotten your user name or password, email roy at kdhx.org

2. Once logged in, go to kdhx.org/music/news Click on "Add new item in this category."

3. Compose or paste in a catchy headline in the title field. A good headline will mention the artist you're writing about and draw the reader in. It should be clever and informative. Try to keep it to 12 words or less. Use single quote marks instead of double quote marks in the headline.

4. Ignore Title Alias.

5. Choose Music News category.

6. Add some relevant tags. Artist name, genre, type of article (interview, review, etc.), record label etc.

7. Select "no" for Published state.

8. Add in your lede (about 20-30 words) in the Introtext window, but do not paste directly. Instead use the "Paste as Plain Text" icon. This is the icon to the left of the icon with a W on it. This will paste in clean text.

9. Add in your body text in the Fulltext window, but again, do not paste in directly. Use the "Paste as Plain Text" icon. If you have formatted your text properly, it should paste in just fine, with intact paragraphs.

10. Do not use italics or bold. For song and album titles, put those in standard quotation marks. Same for book titles.

11. If you wish to add an image, you may do so, but it must be exactly 600x400 pixels in size and it must also be rights clear (from an official website of the artist or from the public domain). Add a caption (name of artist, if the viewer might not know from looking at the image) and credit (name of photographer and/or the website where you found the image.

If you do not have an image or do not wish to add one in, the editor will take care of that.

12. Proof your work. Remember that our WYSIWYG editor does not show paragraph breaks. If it all looks good, click Save.

13. Email roy at kdhx.org that you have saved a new article in Music News. He will edit and proof and publish, usually within 24 hours.