Submit news - The Catholic Miscellany

The Catholic Miscellany is the official magazine of the Diocese of Charleston. This monthly publication strives to present people and events covering a range of activities by Catholics in South Carolina in a professional manner.

All meetings and events cannot be covered by Miscellany staff, so designated parish contacts and other individuals are encouraged to submit story ideas. The Catholic Miscellany does not try to explain each event in detail — it can only give highlights and provide some resources for more information. We follow Associated Press and Catholic News Service style.

The magazine is published at the beginning of each month, so information should be sent in at least 6-8 weeks in advance of desired publication date.

If you are interested in taking out a paid advertisement, please visit our advertising page.

Name *

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Type of submission *

To be included in our People & Events section, events should be open to the community at large, such as a yard sale, guest speakers, workshops, and not specific to one parish.

P&E notices are run at the editor’s discretion and if/when space allows. Publication or frequency is not guaranteed. Items such as regular monthly meetings or liturgies, requests for donations, bingo or raffles will not be included.

If your item does not qualify as a People & Events topic, you would like to include graphics, or you would like guaranteed publication of your notice, please visit our advertising page for details on scheduling a paid advertisement.

What to submit:

-- Awards (school, local, community, and state etc.);

-- Scouting awards

-- Championships (from sports to chess);
-- Fundraising tallies (not if you’re having a fundraiser, but how much you raised and where it’s going);
-- Senior scholarships;
-- Military academy appointments;
-- New building projects.
-- No classroom projects unless it has a broad or unusual news appeal, or impact on the greater community.

What to submit:

Do you know of someone in your parish who truly lives out the life of an apostle, a group that is making a particular effort to help the community, a priest or religious who gives without expectation, someone or something that touches other people’s lives and makes a difference? Please let us know.

Is it news? Ask yourself if this is of interest to someone on the other side of the state, unusual, significant, different, and not happening to anyone else. Also, make sure that it is timely, articles referring to events over a month old are not news.

Please let us know if your parish has an event coming up that is open to or of interest to the community. Do not assume that because the bishop, diocesan staff, pastors or church staff know about an upcoming event, that The Miscellany staff will too.

Please note that routine or everyday activities and meetings of a church, parish, school or other organizations cannot be covered or published. Please consider submitting a notice to the Parish Life section instead.

Anniversaries are only covered at 10, 25, 50, 75, 100 years, etc.

Due to space constraints and a commitment to covering all aspects of the diocese equally, The Catholic Miscellany will not be able to assign coverage of every item.

What to submit:

Press releases should provide current, useful, accurate and interesting information. It should contain: who, what, when, where, why and how.

Keep it simple and stick to the facts. Please avoid embellishments or flowery writing. Tell the story as concisely as possible.

Press Release sample format:

City, Date, 2019—The opening paragraph must summarize the press release. The first few paragraphs contain the most important information: who, what, when, where, why and how.

The body of the press release should be written with the most important information and quotes first. This inverted pyramid technique is used so that if editors need to cut the story to fit space constraints, they can cut from the end without losing critical information.

A press release has short sentences and about three or four lines per paragraph. The rest of the news release expounds on the information provided in the first paragraph. It includes accurate quotes from key people. It contains more details about the news you have to tell, which can be about something unique or about a prominent person, place or thing.

The closing paragraph repeats the critical contact information, including the name of the person, his or her phone number and/or email address.

P&E box *

I have read and understand the above.

Parish Life box *

I have read and understand the above.

Story idea box *

I have read and understand the above.

Press release box *

I have read and understand the above.

Event title

Date and time

Organization sponsoring event

Event location

Name of church, school, or location where the event will be held.

City

Address

Short event description

Maximum length: 600 characters (about 100 words).

Cost

Event Contacts

First

Last

Contact email

Contact phone

2nd Event Contact

First

Last

Email 2

Phone 2

3rd Event Contact

First

Last

Event contact names and information will be published. Please fill out only as many as you need.

Email 3

Phone 3

Event title

Date of event

Description

Maximum length: 1700 characters (about 300 words)

Photos

Avoid posed group shots whenever possible. Headshots are fine for awards. Be sure to include the first and last names of all children pictured, the date and the event description. Schools or parents are required to obtain necessary permissions allowing children’s photos to be published. See photo Dos & Don’ts section for advice on how to take pictures.

File upload

Click or drag a file to this area to upload.

Allowed file types: .jpg, .jpeg, .pdf

Is this story idea related to a specific future event?

What is the event?

Event date

Send in any items at least three weeks in advance of a publication date or date of an event — the sooner the better.

Story idea

Maximum length: 600 characters (about 100 words).

Press release

Photos

File Upload

Click or drag a file to this area to upload.

Allowed file types: .jpg, .jpeg, .pdf, .txt., docx

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