How to submit a guest essay to the Canton Repository
The Canton Repository publishes analysis, commentary, argument and first-person essays on a wide variety of subjects each Sunday.
We accept timely, inspiring, informative pieces related to news topics and ways to improve our community. Columns must be fact-based and written to appeal to a Stark County audience.
The mission is to advocate for positive change and provide forums for conversations that move our community, state and nation forward.
Guidelines for submitting guest essays to The Canton Repository
Columns typically run 600 to 800 words. They can be written directly into an email or attached as a Word file. Send to letters@cantonrep.com with "Guest essay" in the subject line.
Pieces should include links (URLs, not headlines or footnotes) to back up quotes and factual material. People featured in columns must be identified by their real, full names.
Submissions may be edited for accuracy, clarity, style, standards and length.
Please include with your submission a short biography, two sentences at most, to run at the end of your column, as well as a current photograph, to which you own publishing rights.
If you or a business, trade group or other institution with which you are associated stands to gain financially or in any other way from your column, you should disclose that information in detail. In most cases, it should also be included in the body of the piece or in the author's biographical information.
We accept only pieces that are submitted exclusively to the Repository. We do not accept material that has been published on blogs, social media or anywhere else.
Here are examples of guest essays
The Repository will consider guest essays from community leaders, business leaders and regular people on a variety of topics. The following are examples of guest essays that have appeared in the newspaper and at CantonRep.com:
Jim Smith wrote about why he ran in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Marathon.
Shootouts singer Ryan Humbert wrote about what he learned during the pandemic.
Akul Patel wrote about how Stark County needs more welders.
Malone University President Greg Miller wrote about how he wants the school to be a welcoming place for its Canton neighbors.
Minerva Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Denise Freeland wrote about the future of the Roxy Theatre.
How will accepted columns be used?
Accepted columns could appear online, in print or both.
All columns published by the Repository are available for use online and in print by the more than 250 properties in the USA TODAY Network.
In Ohio, that includes Cincinnati Enquirer; Akron Beacon Journal; Mansfield News Journal and 16 other newspapers and their websites.
This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Submit columns, editorials, OP-EDs to Canton Repository: Here's how
