Pollen Press is happy to share our writers and reporters’ stories with your print and online audiences. You are free to republish them under a Creative Commons license unless otherwise noted on the page. You can use the URL or copy and paste the story into your CMS.

Here are our ground rules:

• You must credit Pollen Press and any other publications if you are republishing the story. In the byline, we prefer “[Author Name], Pollen Press.” At the top of the text of your story, please include a line that says: “This story was originally published by Pollen Press,” and include a link to the article.

• No republishing of photographs, illustrations, or graphics without specific permission. Please contact [email/contact].

• No editing the content, including the headline, except to reflect changes in time, location, and editorial style. For example, changing “today” to “last week,” or adjusting for location. You can also make minor revisions for style or headline size, and you can trim stories for space. You must retain all original hyperlinks, including links to Pollen Press newsletters.

• No translation of our stories into another language without specific permission. Please contact [email/contact].

• No selling ads against our story, but you can publish it on a page with ads that you’ve already sold.

• No reselling or syndicating our stories, including on platforms or apps like Apple News or Google News. You also can’t republish our work automatically or all at once. Please select them individually.

• No scraping our website or using our stories to populate websites designed to improve search rankings or gain revenue from network-based advertisements.

• Any site our stories appear on must have a prominent and effective way to contact you.

• If we send you a request to remove our story, you must do so immediately.

• If you share republished stories on social media, please tag Pollen Press. We have official accounts on [list social media handles if applicable].

• Let us know when you share the story. Send us a note, so we can keep track.