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The Syracuse New Times offers provocative, credible journalism, progressive thinking and edgy arts coverage. Our audience is devoted to our publication, the fourth-oldest alternative weekly in the country, and read us cover-to-cover. With 30 full-time staff and up to a dozen freelance contributors, The New Times produces 52 issues and more than 25 special sections per year. Active in the local community, The New Times sponsors or contributes to more than 100 charities. Many of our staff are involved in festival planning and are on committees or activist groups such as the Syracuse Ad Club, The Syracuse Chamber of Commerce and 40 Below. Every year more than half the editorial matter published in the Syracuse New Times comes from people not on our full-time staff. Cover stories, interviews, What's Shakin' items, arts and entertainment features, sports stories, book reviews and cartoons are all occasionally generated by free-lancers. It's fair to say The New Times would have a tough time surviving without them. As a result, we look forward to reading, editing and eventually publishing free-lance material. This being said, you should be aware that for every 10 unsolicited manuscripts we receive, only one is likely to be published in The New Times. To ensure that you waste neither our time nor yours, here are some guidelines. Generally speaking, what most impresses us is thoughtful, clear writing. The subject matter is almost secondary. It is crucial that the piece be lively, interesting and appealing to the uninterested readerin the way that a well-written piece on boxing can appeal to a reader who hates the subject. We tend to avoid journalism that is abstract and generalized, and to favor writing that deals with specifics and, in doing so, suggests the universal. We generally turn down stories written in the first person. With good writing of paramount importance, we then give preference to the stories that fit our format. Take a look at a recent copy of New Times to see what we make room for and what we don't really have. Cover stories are often news stories or features of considerable length. The What's Shakin' section is shorter, newsier items, the back of the book contains art and entertainment section contains art and entertainment stories, books, features, human interest pieces, food and lifestyle articles and reviews. Since The New Times is a Syracuse newspaper, we generally run stories that are about the metropolitan area, or at least are relevant to Central New York readers. Now that we've laid down the rules, remember that rules are made to be broken. A story, no matter how it may deviate from these guidelines, may be published in The New Times if it is well written and strikes our fancy.

The Cortland Standard, the only daily newspaper published in Cortland County, N.Y., is more than 141 years old. Known as the Cortland County Standard, the newspaper was established in June 1867 as a weekly newspaper. The original publisher of the newspaper encountered various difficulties in getting the paper started. In the first issue, he pointed out that the press had not arrived in time for the printing of the first edition. The first issue of the paper, therefore, was printed in the offices of a competition newspaper. In 1872, Wesley Hooker purchased the paper. At the same time, he also purchased the Cortland Journal and combined the two papers under the name, The Standard and Journal. The name was changed to the Cortland Standard in 1879. In 1876, William H. Clark purchased the paper and served as its editor and publisher for nearly 52 years. The Cortland Standard, which is one of the few remaining family-owned newspapers in New York, continues to be published under the ownership of members of the Clark family. In marked contrast to the appearance of today s newspaper, the first issue of the daily Cortland Standard was a four-page paper published in March 1892. The paper was printed on an eight-page flatbed press that was capable of producing up to 3,500 copies per hour.