Your publication's pages

How a publisher writes the standing pages a paper is expected to have — About, Team, Policies, Contact, Advertise, Support and FAQ — and where readers find them. Use when someone asks how to add an About page, put up their ethics or corrections policy, list their staff or masthead, tell readers how to reach the newsroom, how to advertise with them, or how to support them.

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    Open your publication and choose Pages Open

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    Write the pages you want and save each one

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    Leave the rest blank — a page you don't write simply doesn't exist

Every paper carries a handful of standing pages: who we are, who works here, how we handle corrections, how to reach us. Your publication gets the same set, written by you and rendered by us.

The seven pages

About — your history, your mission, the community you serve. Team — an optional introduction, above a list of everyone on your masthead. You don't retype anyone: each person's photo and short bio come from their own profile, so the list stays right when someone updates theirs or joins the publication. Policies — corrections, ethics, ownership, how you handle a complaint. Contact — how readers reach the newsroom: tips, letters, phone, address. Advertise — who your readers are and what you offer. We add a link to the advertising request form at the bottom, so a business reading it can start straight away. Support — why reader support matters and what it pays for. FAQ — the questions readers ask you most.

Writing them

From your publications, open the publication and choose Pages. Each page has a heading and a body; the body takes the same simple formatting our stories do — bold, italics, and links, nothing more.

Write only the pages you want. A page you leave blank doesn't exist: it stays out of your publication's navigation and its address returns a not-found, so readers never meet an empty shell. Delete a page later and it disappears the same way. You can write one today and the rest whenever.

Where readers find them

Each page has its own address under your publication, and it's linked from your publication's profile. If you publish on your own domain, the same pages appear there too, wearing your masthead — one thing to write, two places it shows up.

These pages are written on the web. The iOS and Android apps show them to readers inside your publication, but the writing happens here.

Related: How to create a publication, Supporting journalists and advertising your business