Steal Our Stories

Unless otherwise noted, you can republish our articles for free under a Creative Commons license. Here’s what you need to know:

  • You have to credit The Xylom and any co-reporting partners. In the byline, we prefer “Author Name, Publication(s).” At the top of the text of your story, include a line that reads: “This story was originally published by The Xylom.” You must link the word “The Xylom” to the original URL of the story.
  • If you’re republishing online, you must link to the URL of this story on thexylom.com, include all of the links from our story, including our newsletter sign up language and link.
  • If you use canonical metadata, please use The Xylom's URL. For more information about canonical metadata, click here.
  • You can’t edit our material, except to reflect relative changes in time, location and editorial style. (For example, “yesterday” can be changed to “last week,” and “Portland, Ore.” to “Portland” or “here.”)
  • You cannot republish our photographs or illustrations without specific permission. Please contact editor@thexylom.com.
  • It’s okay to put our stories on pages with ads, but not ads specifically sold against our stories. You can’t state or imply that donations to your organization support The Xylom’s work.
  • You have no rights to sell, license, syndicate, or otherwise represent yourself as the authorized owner of our material to any third parties. This means that you cannot actively publish or submit our work for syndication to third party platforms or apps like Apple News or Google News. The Xylom understands that publishers cannot fully control when certain third parties automatically summarize or crawl content from publishers’ own sites.
  • You can’t republish our material wholesale, or automatically; you need to select stories to be republished individually. (To inquire about syndication or licensing opportunities, contact our Publisher and Editor, Alex Ip.)
  • You can’t use our work to populate a website designed to improve rankings on search engines or solely to gain revenue from network-based advertisements.
  • As the only Asian American-run science news outlet, many of our stories cover communities where English is spoken as a second language. As such, we permit translation of our stories into another language, on the condition that you allow The Xylom to republish them for free. (To inquire about translation opportunities, contact our Publisher and Editor, Alex Ip.)
  • Any website our stories appear on must include a prominent and effective way to contact you.
  • If you share republished stories on social media, we’d appreciate being tagged in your posts. We have official accounts for @thexylom on Bluesky, Instagram, Threads, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Mastodon.

If you have any other questions, contact editor@thexylom.com.