Unless otherwise noted, you can republish our articles for free under a Creative Commons license. Here’s what you need to know:

DO:

  • Republish our work anytime in the first 90 days after it is initially published. Because news, context and stories can evolve, republishing after this deadline requires explicit permission to extend republishing rights. If you republish our work online you must remove it online after this deadline, or remove the body of the story and link back to the original, or request permission to extend republishing rights.
  • You are required to credit City Desk ABQ and any co-reporting partners in the introduction or opening of the story. In the byline, we prefer “Author Name, Publication(s).” At the top of the text of your story, include a line that reads: “This story was originally published by City Desk ABQ.” You must link the word “City Desk ABQ” to the original URL of the story.
  • If you’re republishing online, you must link to the URL of this story on citydesk.org, include all of the links from our story.
  • Republish our photographs or illustrations — but only if “City Desk” or “City Desk ABQ” is included in the credit line. You must include the full original credit in your story and link back to the story if publishing online. In some cases we have licensed other artists’ work for our use but those may not be available for republishing. If you would like to republish art not credited to us, we can usually help. Just contact us.
  • It’s okay to put our stories on pages with ads, but not ads specifically sold against our stories. You can’t state or imply that donations to your organization support City Desk’s work.
  • Any website our stories appear on must include a prominent and effective way to contact you.
  • If you share republished stories on social media, we’d appreciate being tagged in your posts. We have official accounts for @ctiydeskabq.

DON’T:

  • Republishing is not available for any publication in print or online, including social media, that is less than 50% original content by the republisher. In other words, you can’t use our work to populate an aggregator, website or publication designed to improve rankings on search engines or primarily to gain revenue from network-based advertisements.
  • You can’t edit our material, except to reflect relative changes in time, location and editorial style. (For example, “yesterday” can be changed to “last week,” and “Albuquerque, New Mexico” to “Albuquerque” or “here.”)
  • It’s okay to put our stories on pages with ads, but not ads specifically sold against our stories. You can’t state or imply that donations to your organization support City Desk’s work.
  • You have no rights to sell, license, syndicate, or otherwise represent yourself as the authorized owner of our material to any third parties. This means that you cannot actively publish or submit our work for syndication to third party platforms or apps like Apple News or Google News.
  • You can’t republish our material wholesale, or automatically; you need to select stories to be republished individually. (To inquire about syndication or licensing opportunities, contact our publisher, Pat Davis, pat@newmexico.news)
  • We do not generally permit translation of our stories into another language – but we are open to multi-language collaborations.
  • You can’t state or imply that donations to your organization support City Desk’s work.
  • Any website our stories appear on must include a prominent and effective way to contact you.
  • If you share republished stories on social media, we’d appreciate being tagged in your posts. We have official accounts on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

You can grab HTML code for our stories easily. Click on the Creative Commons logo on our stories. You’ll find it with the other share buttons.

If you have any other questions, contact editor@newmexico.news.

*Credit where credit is due: we borrowed and edited CC standards and policies from other nonprofit news outlets who have done this more than us. These standards are adopted from the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN), and ProPublica.

For additional help or republishing inquiries, Contact Us.