TheReportingProject.org is the nonprofit news organization of the Denison University Journalism Program. We prioritize collaborating and working with other publications, including the republishing of locally produced content. We also work to bring more attention to the work of our partners.

We invite other publications to use our staff-written content under a Creative Commons license.

This does not apply to content produced by The Associated Press that appears on The Reporting Project site. The AP content — stories, photos, graphics, video and audio — is copyrighted by The Associated Press and is not to be republished without express permission from The Associated Press.

Please follow these few guidelines:

  • You are welcome to republish our Reporting Project staff-written stories after touching base with an editor (Julia Lerner, Alan Miller or Jack Shuler), and so long as proper credit is given. The original author and contributors to the story must be credited, as well as our publication.
  • Must include: This story was originally published by TheReportingProject.org, a nonprofit organization serving Licking County, Ohio.
  • If you are republishing online, include a link above to our homepage.
  • Our material cannot be edited except to reflect relative changes in time or location without permission.
  • Photographs and videos credited to The Reporting Project can be republished, but credit must be given to our publication and the content creators. We cannot grant permission for visual or audio media created by our partner publications or media licensed from third parties, including The Associated Press.
  • You cannot republish our content wholesale or automatically. Select stories may be republished individually. 
  • You have no rights to sell our stories to any third parties or represent yourself as an authorized owner or representative of our material. You may not put our stories behind a paywall.
  • We want to hear from you before republishing our stories. Please email thereportingproject@denison.edu to let us know.

Have any questions about republishing our material? Please contact us at thereportingproject@denison.edu