ETHISPHERE MAGAZINE SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Ethisphere Magazine showcases thought leadership and case studies of excellence in action among leading corporate ethics, compliance, governance, legal and regulatory, and business integrity professionals. We are especially interested in highlighting the thought leadership and success stories of members of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA), our current partners and clients, and anyone within the business integrity space who has a compelling proof point to share or story to tell.
As a matter of editorial principle, Ethisphere Magazine does not publish any AI-generated content. If your submission was written using generative AI tools such as (but not limited to) Chat GPT, or received substantial input from such tools, it will be rejected. Even if you edited such content substantially after the fact, it will still be considered AI-generated content, and will not be accepted for publication.
Content should speak to the professional challenges and opportunities faced by our core audience of ethics and compliance officers as well as focus on solutions more than merely highlighting problems. Articles should speak to best practices and innovations in the space and should not be overtly promotional of any particular product or service.
Many of our articles cite various sources to support their insights and arguments. Some of our authors publish with a legal background and prefer to use footnotes while others publish from a more journalistic or communications background and embed supporting links in their text. Either approach is acceptable.
We publish four times a year. Our publishing schedule for 2024 is as follows:
- Winter 2024 | Ethical AI (Submissions deadline: 12/20; Publishing date: 1/29
- Spring 2024 | Ethical Culture (Submissions deadline: 3/15; Publishing date: 4/19
- Summer 2024 | World’s Most Ethical Companies (Publishing date: 7/9)
- Fall 2024 | Boards & Leadership (Submissions deadline: 9/27; Publishing date: 10/28)
Each issue has a special theme topic, but not all content in that issue will address that particular topic. If your story aligns with the theme topic, it will appear in the first half of the issue. If your story does not align with the theme topic, that does not disqualify it from being in the issue. On the contrary, we welcome content that is different from the theme topic because it diversifies the issue.
Stories should meet one of the following length criteria:
- 1,300 words (2 pages)
- 2,000 words (3 pages)
- 2700 words (4 pages)
- Stories longer than 2,700 words should be considered as a series.
All content submissions to be in Word format, 11pt Calibri. Please include:
- Headline
- Example: How to Submit a Story to Ethisphere Magazine
- Subheadline
- Example: An Overview of Ethisphere’s Editorial Guidelines
- 1-2 sentence overview of the article
- Example: Have you ever wanted to appear in Ethisphere Magazine? Editor in Chief Bill Coffin provides insight on what articles work best for the ethics and compliance community.
- A brief author biography (no more than 50 words)
- A high-resolution author photograph or headshot
Ethisphere reserves final editorial decisions on all content submissions.
ETHICAST PARTICIPATION
In addition to producing written content for our magazine and website, we also interview subjects for our video and podcasting series, Ethicast.
Ethicast publishes each week to YouTube as well as to podcasting platforms on Apple, Spotify, Google, and Amazon Music. The episodes also live in our resource centers on both the Ethisphere and Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) websites.
An Ethicast interview typically runs 15-20 minutes, and the recording session itself takes about 30 minutes. We record on the online platform StreamYard; Ethicast handles all technical aspects of the recording, editing and publishing processes.
All questions are provided in advance, and all recordings are edited to eliminate false starts, re-takes, etc. Additional guests (e.g., communications liaisons) are welcome to sit in on the recording in a special “off-stage” area where they can see the episode as it is being recorded, but not actually appear in the recording. Thus, if a guest wishes for Corporate Communications or Legal to be present during the recording, we can certainly accommodate that.
Ethicast episodes are promoted via Ethisphere social media channels and through our branded newsletters, such as Ethisphere Insights.
Typically, we try to schedule Ethicasts as far in advance as possible, but in recent months, the average lead time is 2-3 weeks between initial discussion and recording, with there being an initial conversation about appearing on the show, perhaps a follow-up discussion to nail down topics and questions (this is typically handled by email), and then the actual recording session.
Please send all editorial inquiries to Bill Coffin, Editor in Chief at [email protected].
