Submissions

Technician endeavors to be a meeting place for campus opinions. We welcome letters to the editor and guest columns and encourage members of the wider NC State community to make submissions. Potential authors should consider the following information about submissions.

What is a Letter to the Editor?

A letter to the editor must pertain to Technician’s coverage or an issue directly related to the university’s community. It should be in response to content recently published by the paper or in response to an action taken by the University or local officials.

What is a Guest Column?

Guest columns can cover a wide array of subjects and are usually more extensive than letters to the editor but maintain relevance to campus issues. Guest columnists typically have special expertise or lived experience with the topics they write about.

Guidelines

Though Technician strives to platform as many community voices as possible, a submission does not guarantee publication. The opinion editor and editor-in-chief will have final say on if submissions are in line with the paper’s guidelines.

Technician reserves the right to edit letters and guest columns for accuracy, clarity, grammar, structure, AP and Technician style. Technician also maintains the right to withhold submissions on the discretion of the opinion page editor. Technician will not publish content that is vulgar or promotes falsehoods and anonymous submissions.

Submissions for letters to the editor should be no more than 600 words, while guest columns should be no more than 800 words in length. The author needs to provide their name, contact information and relation to the community and submit a headshot or applicable visual to run alongside the piece. Please cite all sources; Technician will fact-check every submission.

Letters to the editor and guest columns can be submitted to technician-editor@ncsu.edu and technician-opinion@ncsu.edu.