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We share our stories for all news outlets to republish for free. 

Story packages often include original photos, audio and video assets, maps and data elements, as well as suggestions for localizing our reporting. All stories are rigorously fact-checked. (Learn more about that process.)

To republish one of our stories, click the Republish button at the top to generate the HTML embed code. Copy and paste this into your website’s content management system to share the story with your audience while preserving the original formatting. Using this tool is the easiest way to ensure that you meet our guidelines below, including crediting us and our news partners.

Editors — apply here to become part of our distribution network. Doing so gives you expanded republication privileges and signs you up for alerts every time we publish a new story.

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Republishing guidelines 

News outlets are welcome to republish our stories and multimedia for free, as long as they meet the following requirements. Please let us know if you republish our stories so we can track their distribution and impact. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach out. 

Thank you for your interest in our work! 

Our content is available under the BY-ND 4.0 Creative Commons license. This means unadapted content can be freely republished in any medium or format with proper attribution. 

We ask newsrooms that want to republish our stories to meet the following requirements: 

Credit our news partner and the Ag & Water Desk.

• Bylines should read By Author Name, Newsroom. In most cases, the Newsroom will be a partner newsroom. Stories which have been produced solely by the Ag & Water Desk will have our organization in the byline instead.
• The following language must be included: This story is a product of the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, an independent environmental reporting network covering America's largest watershed. Sign up for the Desk’s newsletter here.
• If you share the story on social media, please mention us. We’re @agwaterdesk or the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk on most platforms. 
• If you use canonical metadata, please use the URL of the original story on our partner newsroom’s site. Read this for more information about canonical metadata.

Republish only approved stories. 

• Only Ag & Water Desk stories that have the Republish button enabled may be republished under these guidelines. Newsrooms may not republish other stories from the Ag & Water Desk website. If you want to republish those stories, please contact the news partner credited in the byline for their republication rules. 

Don’t make any significant changes. 

• You can change the headline or subheadings, shorten stories or make light edits to align with in-house style and reflect changes in time, location or editorial style. For example, you can change “today” to “last week” or “St. Louis” to “here.” Beyond these minor changes, republished articles should adhere to the original material. 

Don’t repurpose multimedia assets.  

• Our photos, graphics and other multimedia elements may be republished only with the stories with which they originally appeared. You may not separate multimedia elements for use on their own or with other stories.

Don’t sell our work. 

• Don’t sell our stories, or ads against the story. You may, however, republish stories on pages with ads you’ve already sold.

Stay in touch. 

• Our editorial policies are designed to avoid the need for clarifications and corrections, but they may sometimes be necessary. We ask newsrooms that routinely republish our work to subscribe to our email alerts for editors so we can let you know if such changes are needed. 
• If we ask you to change or remove Ag & Water Desk content from your site, you must do so immediately.