HOW TO GET PUBLISHED IN COUNCIL CALL

Advisory committee meeting notices should be sent to Sue Elder (347 2800 or 318 8338).  Meeting notices should be with Sue by Thursday noon of the week preceding publication.

All other notices should be sent to editor@selwyn.govt.nz

Volunteer group notices

Volunteer groups (other than sporting, religious or political bodies) may submit short notices for publication in Council Call, subject to the following criteria.

• Notices must include a contact name plus phone number or email address.

• Notices must reach the editor no later than noon on the Thursday before the week of publication.

• Notices should be brief, factual, and written impersonally in the third person (i.e. "they" not "we", "the committee" not "our committee").

• Logos will generally not be published, except where they add important information or visual content to the notice.

• Photos will be published if space allows and their quality and size are suitable for newspaper publication (500kb to 2MB). Please do not embed photos in Word documents - send them separately.

• Notices should be submitted in Word or text files (not Publisher or PDFs). 

• The Editor may edit any notice for length, language or style.

• Where space is limited, council notices have precedence over volunteer notices.

• Where space is limited, volunteer notices will be prioritised as follows:

  1. events or activities which have explicit Council support or collaboration (e.g. a Creative NZ grant) will have priority over those which do not;

  2. notices which require a response or action from the public will have priority over notices which merely provide information;

  3. notices which have a broad public audience will have priority over notices with a narrow audience; and

  4. events or deadlines scheduled for earlier dates will have precedence over those scheduled for later dates.

For editorial and delivery matters, please contact The Editor (347 2800 or 318 8338).