Publication Guidelines

Guidelines

We always endeavour to be mindful that our audience spans a wide diversity of readers both in age, culture and background and our aim will always be to: 

• Uphold the School’s Methodist ethos
• Avoid causing offence, anxiety or distress of any kind to any of our readers  

Please note, we reserve the right to make any relevant edits to submissions and these will be at the editor’s discretion based on brevity and relevance. Contributors will not always have the opportunity to approve edited submissions before print. Any contributions that are deemed inappropriate or offensive in the first instance will not be published.  

Interview Questionnaire Responses 

• In the first instance please try to limit each response to about 200 words.  If you have a unique story we will contact you requesting more information if we feel our audience would enjoy your article as a standalone feature in the e-Truronian. Try to avoid making your interview questionnaire responses read like a CV. We would love to know the smaller details, career highlights, more personal life stories and any interesting ‘titbits’ from your time since leaving school 
• When mentioning family and friends, please offer names to make it more personal, and please name any Old Truronians you are still in contact with (we will never publish names of OT’s who have expressively wished not to be named) 
• Please let us know if we can include your e–mail so that old friends can get in touch with you 
• Responses must be received before the given deadline date, otherwise contributions may not be included 
• We reserve the right to choose which publication and when the feature is published (this can depend on other content being included) 

Obituaries and Tributes 

• Tributes for entry in the e-Truronian magazine are limited to 500 words 
• Obituary notifications and tributes are published in the e-Truronian magazine only.
• Please aim to keep tributes limited to the general Truro School days, the life and career of the person and any other noteworthy details, avoiding any very personal stories that would only be interesting to those who were personally close 
• We may need to highlight and/or shorten tributes depending on available space and relevance  
• Please send an appropriate portrait photo of the person to accompany the tribute 
• All edited tributes will be e-mailed to the original sender for approval before publication 
• Obituary notifications and tributes must be received before the given deadline date, otherwise contributions may not be included. Any unsolicited obituary notifications and/or tributes received will be published in the next appropriate publication 

Old Truronian News 

• We reserve the right to edit Old Truronian news where necessary 
• Noteworthy news will only be published if deemed appropriate for our audience
• Due to the volume of requests received we are unable to advertise / publicise charity information.  Where possible we will report fundraising stories but reserve the right not to share news of specific fundraising and charitable campaigns  

Photos 

• Please try to send only good–quality photos 
• Avoid sending any photos of others who have not allowed permission for you to do so 
• Photos may be cropped before publication 
• Submitted photos will be published where possible, based on photo quality and available space 

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