Send us your News
This page is about your news and stories and articles relating to Oberon
now and its
history and future. Contributions are welcome and encouraged. This is your chance
to tell your story to the world.
- Media releases are welcome about coming events, new or changed
businesses around town or anything else you think people might be
interested in. Media releases may be edited for length, style,
clarity and legality, but your intent will remain. Articles simply promoting an existing business or service might not be
published. If you want to advertise on the site
details can be
found here.
- The normal rules of good manners apply - no defamation, no
bigotry and no language that might offend. These might be edited out
for publication, or the piece might be rejected completely.
Contributors won't be notified of any edits but might be advised if a
piece is rejected.
- Article authors can ask for anonymity or to be published under an
alias, but must still be identified to Oberon Matters by name and a working telephone number.
Totally anonymous submissions will go straight into the bin. Media
releases obviously cannot be anonymous.
- The preferred method is to write the article in MS Word or some
other program and attach the file to an email.
- Photos and images should be at least 3,000 pixels wide. It is possible to manipulate smaller images but generally bigger is
better and will give better results when the images are displayed
here. The preferred format is .jpg, but other formats can be
managed.
- Videos should be in landscape orientation and as wide as
possible.
- Comments on articles can be submitted by email, and will be
allowed on most articles. Comments will be moderated and might not
appear immediately (we have "real" jobs as well as this site.)
- The deadline for submitting material for a particular weekly
update is 11am on the preceding Wednesday. If your media release comes
in after that it might not be published that week if it isn't time-critical.
Articles will be archived periodically but not deleted. Media
releases might be deleted once they become irrelevant.
So you think you can't write.
Don't worry if you think that you can't write, because we can do
it for you. All you have to do is follow the journalists' clichés of
"Who, what, when, where and why" and we can write the article or
media release for you.
- Who - everybody needs to know who you are
- What - what is it you want to talk about -
the name of an event, the issue you are concerned about, ...
- When - if it's something to put in the
calendar, people need to know when it's happening
- Where - it's handy to know where to go to
- Why - what you want to say - we will call
you to expand on this if necessary
You can leave out "when and where" for an article just addressing
a topic or issue.
