About the Meercat9 News Network
The Meercat9.com News Network is a platform for amateur bloggers and journalists to have their thoughts and opinions heard. If you are interested in becoming a part of the Mc9 News Team see the section below.
Join Mc9 News: Amateur Journalists Wanted!
So you're interested in writing things and having your voice heard? Excellent, so are we! It's both a great way to drive traffic to the site and give opportunities for young aspiring writers (or just those with a lot of opinions) to be heard on another platform. It's also a good way to build up a more formal portfolio of published works for future job hunting. Authors will retain full credit over their work.
Below is a rough guideline for how it will work - no hidden catch and no costs required on your part. If you're still interested in broadcasting your words to a larger audience through the Meercat9 News Network, send an email to me at billymoffat92@gmail.com to get started!
Your rights
You retain full intellectual property and editorial freedom over your work. This means you are free to take work you have submitted to Meercat9 News (or its subsidiaries) and publish it elsewhere. Keep in mind you may have to refer to other websites/publishers for their policies regarding exclusivity.
Since you aren't being paid, and the main purpose of this is to allow aspiring writers to build a published portfolio and a following, it would be unfair for Meercat9 News to seize the intellectual property. Note there is one key exception to full intellectual property of the author, as discussed below.
Your content will never be modified in any significant manner. The only modifications that will be made to your content are the correction of spelling, grammar or typographical errors. Sometimes paragraphs in news articles will be split/merged for consistency in both text and page layout. It is your responsibility to check articles after they have been put up to ensure you are comfortable with the final result.
Creative pieces will not be modified in any way, so you should proof read your entries thoroughly before submitting.
You are free to change your submissions yourself at any time, and free to add UPDATE paragraphs at the end where applicable. Changes must be approved by an administrator (or moderator) in the same way that the articles themselves should.
Our rights
Meercat9 News retains the right to take down content at any time - though we will endeavour to give a reason when possible. Also, the big exception to your intellectual property, as outlined in the Terms of Service on the homepage, is that you are unable to remove content from the site that you have submitted without permission from a Meercat9 News administrator. This is to safeguard our content archives from being greatly diminished when/if authors decide to leave (whether to move on to other things, or some sort of falling out).
Revenue from ad placement in your articles is currently all going towards server costs and maintenance, and for the foreseeable future this revenue remains 100% the property of Meercat9.com