I wrote an op-ed article for the local newspaper in my community. Can I submit the same op-ed to a regional or national newspaper, magazine, or web site?
Once you submit a commentary to a newspaper, it becomes the newspaper’s property; however, if the newspaper rejects your submission, you then are free to submit it elsewhere. If a newspaper publishes your commentary and later you wish to submit it elsewhere as well, contact the newspaper and ask permission to do so; often, it will grant permission so long as the publication or Website that reprints your commentary notes that it was published first in the original newspaper.
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