We’re looking for perfection from all work we publish and will ask for changes and work with you on making your submission perfect. Most of our editorial calendar is planned far in advance of when pieces are published, so there’s a chance it will still take quite some time to receive edits—feel free to follow up if we accept something and you haven’t heard back after two weeks!
We’ll then send you a contributor’s agreement, which you’ll need to sign to grant us permission to publish your work.
You’ll work with an editor to fact check your article, ask you questions, give you notes on changes, and possibly work with you to rewrite some of the articles, in order to make it as clear as possible for our audience. Our editor has a responsibility to DII and our readers, to make sure everything we publish is accurate, fair, well-written, and not carrying an agenda other than the one clearly laid out in the story itself. When the editing process is complete, you’ll get a last look at any changes. We publish only when the writer and editor are in complete agreement on every word of the story.
Our editor controls the headline, and the photo or illustration that runs with your story.