ABOUT US

The Lion is a digital news outlet founded in 2020 and dedicated to covering the city of Los Angeles and surrounding communities. Stories published by The Lion are written and produced by undergraduate students studying journalism at Loyola Marymount University. Advisers include LMU journalism faculty. The Lion publishes stories about news, arts and culture, sports and other topics relevant to Los Angeles readers. The Lion is editorially independent, committed to producing journalism in the public interest.

To reach The Lion’s editors or inquire about earning LMU course credit for working on The Lion staff, please send an email to ky.henderson@lmu.edu

Meet the Staff

Submission Guidelines

Text, photo, audio and video stories published by The Lion primarily originate in courses offered through LMU’s Journalism Program. To be considered for publication, stories must be original, proofread, free of errors and written in Associated Press style. Images or audio must not contain copyrighted material for which the author has not sought and received permission to publish. Student editors and faculty advisers will determine whether stories submitted for publication meet The Lion’s editorial standards for quality, fairness and clarity.

Students wishing to be published in The Lion should submit their work to the ‘Submissions Form’ link below.

SUBMISSION FORM

Submissions for text stories should include:

A Word file containing the author’s name; a working title; text for the story; and a Works Cited section containing any fact-checking materials (including interview notes, links to online sources, contact information + full titles for interviewed sources, and any other documents used in the reporting of the story). Include the photo credits and captions for any accompanying images in the Word doc for each story. See instructions below for submitting photos or other files to accompany a story.

Submissions for video stories should include:

A Word file containing the author’s name; a YouTube link to the story; and a Works Cited section with fact-checking materials (including transcripts and/or interview notes, links to online sources, contact information + full titles for interviewed sources, and other documents used in the reporting of the story). You may also upload the actual video file here if you’d like.

Submission for photo stories should include:

A Word file containing the author’s name; a working title; 1-2 sentence captions for each photo that clarify the who/what/where/when of the image; and any text that should accompany the images. All images should be submitted here in this submission box as individual JPEG files. Photographs should be at least 200 ppi and no more than 5000 px on the longest side. You can submit up to 10 photos at a time. Our photo galleries will typically be 7-10 images.

Submission for audio stories should include:

A Word file containing the author’s name; a SoundCloud link to the audio story; and a Works Cited page containing fact-checking materials (including transcripts and interview notes, links to online sources, contact information for interviewed sources, and any other documents used in the reporting of the story). Any images you have to accompany the story should be uploaded in the PHOTOS submission box above, and any credit and caption information for photos should be included in the Word file.