Participate & Contribute

Send your news, event info, press releases, public organizational activities, & more to news@hibr.me!

Hibr is a youth-powered community media outlet, built and powered by our community of participating individuals, students, groups, organizations, faculty partners, media outlets, bloggers, and more!  Join us! 

While Hibr is a youth/citizen media outlet and a platform for many groups to contribute and participate, all content must abide by the Hibr Ethical and Editorial Guidelines, and stories will be fact-checked and edited.

- For Organizations ... write what you care about.
We are building out Hibr as a civil society media platform, to give voice to activists and groups working on a wide range of important issues. We encourage organizations to submit stories about the issues they are working on (not about the organization itself, but about the ISSUES), and we will give the organization credit for the contribution.  Organizations can also submit press releases, or submit stories about their own organization and activities, but those will be processed separately from journalistic news pieces. Please update us on studies or reports released, as well.  We will work with organizations to help them create articles that are follow journalistic principles and are well-written.

- For university faculty/instructors and high school teachers...
Most teaching in Lebanon does not emphasize critical thinking, good writing, or current-day relevance.  We work with teachers to adapt course assignments so they could both be used in class for a grade and be submitted to Hibr for possible publication. Article submissions and assignments have to be relevant, timely, well-written, and well-sourced with NO PLAGIARISM.  Those standards are equally important for class assignments and our publication. Students can also work with us even if their instructor is not participating in this program. We are developing a special curriculum around information and media literacy (IML), but this collaboration could be appropriate for faculty and students in any area of study.

- For bloggers, local media outlets, student newspapers, or other organizational or community newsletters...
Partner with us. We are looking to aggregate the best content from a variety of local sources to share with our broad community and publish in our paper and online editions, and to give a wider reach to those outlets that only had (or have) a limited reach (We published over 50,000 copies of our first trial issue in early June, and we are looking to grow beyond that). Using both our own editorial selection process plus the wisdom, contributions, and suggestions of our broad community, we will highlight the most interesting and engaging content for our readers and our community. We also will have running aggregators of feeds from partner news sources, plus we open our content so our partners can benefit from and republish our own content, as well. We also organize activities to develop deeper relations with our partner media outlets, conduct joint workshops and trainings, and more. We are interested in all sorts of content (news pieces, investigative reports, opinion pieces, analysis, poetry, fiction, and more) and content types (text, photo, video, audio, graphics, cartoons, etc). Please contact us to discuss different ways this partnership could work.

- For individuals, contribute doing what you love to do...
Individuals are welcome to contribute articles or other content in a variety of subject areas, as long as it meets our Hibr Editorial and Ethical guidelines, and is written/created in a good, compelling way. Please contact us before you start working on your contribution so we can discuss the idea, approach, angle, or any other relevant issue.  We have a small budget for freelance contributors, but we also warmly appreciate and are dependent on volunteer contributions!

If you have any further questions or you want to submit content to us, please contact us.