Press Releases:
YubaNet.com welcomes press releases from your organization, group, or business. Please follow standard press release format since, in most cases, your press release will be published unedited/unexpurgated using your organization’s byline. Submissions consisting of one paragraph announcements or standalone flyers will not be considered. If you have a website, please include the URL. Submissions must be in electronic format. Send photos and/or graphics with your press release, preferably high resolution and larger size (see the submission guidelines.)
We will consider submissions from anyone, including press secretaries, shameless self-promoters, and public relations representatives who view YubaNet readers as a valuable audience but are too cheap to place their clients’ advertising with us. We will not consider submissions previously published in other outlets – send your releases simultaneously to all outlets. If you abuse our generosity, we may limit your exposure. And if you’re going to ask YubaNet readers to read what you write, make it helpful to them and not just you. Our tagline is “We Deliver News to the Sierra,” and we mean it.
Submission guidelines are available for download here.
Op-Eds:
As with press releases, all submissions must be in electronic format. Submissions must include your real name, city, state and phone number. Only your name, city and state of residence will be published if we choose to publish your op-ed. During election season, you are welcome to submit letters of support for candidates, we will consider submission up to 5 days before an election.
May 21, 2025 addition – Use of AI For submissions generated/formatted using AI tools, be transparent and disclose how the AI tool was used and which tool was used.
Word limit:
YubaNet.com is an electronic medium and does not impose a word limit. Tell our readers the who, what, where, when, how/why – not everyone is familiar with every organization in the area. Nevertheless, brevity is the soul of wit so we recommend the following guideline: try to keep it under 1,700 words.
Editing:
If your letter is selected for publication, it will be posted as received (including misspellings and grammatical errors). Hint: use spell check.
Content:
YubaNet.com adheres to a strict civility policy. Only issue-oriented opinions will be considered for publication.
YubaNet.com does not publish any opinion that denigrates anyone on the basis of race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation.
YubaNet.com protects the right of privacy of non-public figures as defined by professional media associations and media law.
Email your press releases and op-eds.
Ethics & Corrections Policy
Our commitment to accuracy. YubaNet has delivered independent local news to Nevada County and the Sierra since 1999. Accuracy, fairness, and transparency guide everything we publish. We verify information before publication, rely on primary sources — public agencies, official records, and firsthand reporting — and clearly attribute information to its source. During emergencies and wildfires, we publish only vetted, confirmed information from incident commanders, fire agencies, and official channels because our readers make real-time safety decisions based on our reporting.
Original reporting vs. contributed content. YubaNet publishes both original reporting by our newsroom and contributed content — press releases, announcements, and op-eds from community organizations, agencies, and businesses. Contributed content is always published under the submitting organization’s byline so readers can distinguish it from our own reporting. Our submission standards are described in our Editorial Policy.
Independence. YubaNet is independently owned and operated by publisher Susan Levitz and editor Pascale Fusshoeller. Our editorial decisions are made solely by our newsroom. Advertisers and sponsors have no influence over our news coverage.
Corrections. We correct errors promptly and transparently. When a story contains a significant factual error, we correct it and note the correction, describing what was wrong. Minor errors such as misspellings are corrected with a note at the bottom of the story.
To request a correction, email news@yubanet.com with the story link and the information you believe is inaccurate. We review every request and respond as quickly as possible.
Updated July 2026.