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Border Beat Story Submission Checklist Please fill this out, sign it, and turn it in to your editor when your story is, in your opinion, ready to go live. | Headline: | | Date: | | Byline (s): | | | Story elements (copy, video, audio, slideshows, still photos, external video, etc.): | Media (text, video, etc) | Slug or Headline | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I promise that I have: - Attached the names, phone numbers, and email addresses of all sources, whether quoted or not.
- Attached CQ notes that editors need to know.
- CQed EVERY utility fact (names, titles, addresses, numbers, etc) including calling all phone numbers listed in the story from the story, rather than from my notes.
- CQed ALL factual statements.
- CDed ALL subjective statements and judgments.
- Re-checked all captions and call-outs.
- Checked links to make sure they work.
- Have made sure that I am not using ANY material (music, photos, film clips, etc.) that is not mine without permission.
- Can prove that any media that is not mine and that I don’t have written permission to use is either in the public domain, offered by creative commons, or otherwise safe and legal to use.
- Checked all questionable style issues with AP Stylebook or Border Beat style.
- Ended story with # # # or -30- or END so editors know where the story ends.
- Put all my notes and research in this story folder & all CQs can be verified
Signature: ____________________________________________________________ Signature: ____________________________________________________________
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