Community and Submission Rules

1. Accounts

• One person per account. Do not share credentials.
• Accounts must use a real name and a verifiable professional email.
• Journalist accounts must be verifiable against a published masthead or an employer letter.
• Company press rooms must be created by an authorised employee of the company.

2. Submissions

• Submit only content that meets our Editorial Standards.
• Do not repost the same press release more than once. Update the original instead.
• Do not use The Media Source to distribute survey spam, gated whitepapers presented as news, or link-farm content.
• Attachments must be virus-free, unencrypted and reasonably compressed.

3. Media requests

• Journalists post their own requests. Do not post requests on someone else's behalf.
• Do not post fake requests to gather marketing intelligence.
• Do not use responses received via The Media Source for commercial prospecting.

4. Messaging and contact

• Do not use the contact form or media request responses to send marketing pitches.
• Do not add anyone contacted via The Media Source to a marketing list without a separate opt-in.
• Abusive, threatening or harassing messages are grounds for immediate suspension.

5. Automation and scraping

• Do not scrape The Media Source, bypass rate limits, or use automated tools to submit content.
• Do not use the platform to train generative AI models on user-submitted content.

6. Enforcement

Breaches may result in a warning, content removal, temporary suspension or permanent account termination. Repeat or serious breaches will result in a permanent ban and, where appropriate, referral to regulators or law enforcement.