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readIT - guidelines

ReadIT is ITU's internal newsletter. It is sent out by e-mail on Monday mornings in a Student and a Staff edition. News stories are submitted by students and staff and edited in the Communication Department.

The purpose of ReadIT is to share information among staff or students or both and to underpin a sense of community among both staff and students.

You can find previous newsletters in the ReadIT Archive.

See readIT archive.

Deadline

The deadline is Wednesdays at 12 noon. News stories received later than this will not be published until the following week. Stories are only published once.

What can be published in readIT?

News stories for ReadIT must contain relevant professional or practical information relevant for staff and/or students or inform about events that underpin the professional and social life at ITU.
News must be submitted by a contact person with an ITU e-mail address.

News stories will not be included in ReadIT more than once. However, the same subject may be covered by more than one news story, if it contains a new message or angle, or if a substantial error occurred in the first publication. 

What cannot be published in readIT?

  • External job ads must be posted in the job bank.
  • Stories which have already been published once in readIT (See above)
  • Offensive or inappropriate content
  • Content that do not align with a positive and inclusive student environment
  • Content showing the use of alcohol
  • Content related to initiatives that will prevent students from following their classes during the semester.
  • External commercial content
  • Spam
  • Content that is not relevant to students or staff at ITU
  • Content that is only relevant to a small minority of students

Contribute to readIT

Contribute to ReadIT by using this submit form

In order to submit a news item, you will need to provide the following information:

  1. Name of contact person, email address, and department, study programme or business
  2. Is your news item relevant for students, staff or both?
  3. Short and precise headline
  4. A clear text in English, max. 80 words. If you wish to include more text, there are several options (see fact box on the right).
  5. An image in size 1000 x 500, .jpg-format.

Tips for readIT

Need more space?

If you need to write more than 75 words, you have the following possibilities: 

A. Insert a link to a website where the reader can find more information.

B. Upload a PDF to a server and insert a link. 

If you need any help, please write to readit@itu.dk.

Need an image?

You have free access to 200.000 stock photos via the university, and it only takes approx. 5 min. to create a user account in Colourbox. You are also welcome to use photos of the ITU building, students or management.

Questions or ideas

E-mail your questions and ideas for readIT to readit@itu.dk.