Quality of Content

What kind of content is welcome here?

While posting news for Citizen Journalist you should remember the following points before posting:

Should be original: Your coverage should be made up of your own words and images, or those that you have the rights to use.
Should be true: Every report should be about real events, or real opinions on events. It's not news if you make it up.
Should be new and interesting: The best topics teach us something new or start a fresh discussion. (Check the PIN’s CJ Guidelines for more story writing tips.)

What isn't welcome?

Content that infringes anyone's copyright.
Content that you know to be untrue or may not be true as per your own judgement.
Any Spam, or repeated uploads that flood the site with duplicate or re-engineered versions of the same or similar content.
Pornography, sexually explicit, Obscene or lewd content.
Content that advocates any type of violence or similar behavior.
Any content that contains violent stories or images of killing or physical abuse that has been written or captured for exploitive, unhealthy or other personal purposes.
Content that advocates dangerous, illegal or predatory acts or poses any type of threat to personal or public safety.
Hate speech/Racist or ethnically offensive content.

Answers basic reporting questions

The 5 Ws and one H should be answered in your news story: Who, What,Where, Why and When and How?
When describing your stories, photos or video in the Description and the Short Media Summary, remember to include the 5 'W's.
Who: the name of the person(s) in the image. When there is more than one person, it is important to give enough information about their positions that they can be identified, from left to right. Do not add names of people who are not in the picture but could be part of the context of the picture.
What: what is happening in the story or the picture.
Where: the place and the town or city and country where this has happened.
Why: the relevance of the story or picture, including any appropriate background information.
When: the date the picture was taken, (e.g. 11th November 2011). Words such as yesterday, today etc. are misleading and should not be used.
How: How did the incident take place (i.e in what circumstances?).

More tips Examples of well written stories: https://news.indiaOnline.in/CJ/storie

Describing your story!

Title

Please ensure the correct use of spellings and proper usage of grammar and punctuations. Do not type the entire title in capitals, but use upper and lower case characters as appropriate. The title should explain what the entire set of pictures is about as concisely and accurately as possible, i.e. ‘Anna on Fast” does not tells us clearly, ‘Anna on fast against government corruption” tells the reader a lot more.