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Researched from public pages — no submission was run · sources read 2026-09-26. Rules change — recheck the platform's own pages before submitting.

Requirements

Not a directory — earned editorial via story submissions plus a real 'Op-Ed' route through the contact form
Story submission page on the site (registered-community feature; account signup at techdirt.com)
Submission rules from Techdirt itself: descriptive title, link to an article (NOT a press release), brief explanation of why it's interesting, and it must be recent
Op-Ed requests are an explicit topic on the contact form — Techdirt historically ran the 'Insider Shop'/copia op-ed program
Sponsorship exists via the Media Kit (paid, separate from editorial)

A story link worth submitting — third-party coverage of your launch, not your own press release
Or a genuine op-ed pitch on tech policy/innovation topics via the contact form
Techdirt's beat is tech policy, IP, innovation economics — a plain product launch is off-beat

Create a Techdirt account and use the story submission page for news links
For an original op-ed, use the contact form and select 'Op-Ed Requests'
Or email via the contact form's 'Media/Public Relations' topic for press inquiries
Accept that most submissions are not covered — Techdirt gets ~3x more submissions than it can write up

Explicitly does NOT want press releases — submit a link to someone else's coverage of you instead
Very old policy post but confirmed by a 2009 follow-up still pointing at the submission page
techdirt.com blocked automated fetch (403) this session — details verified via Techdirt's own posts and contact-page snippet
The submission page may require login — it's a community feature

A submitted story or op-ed is published on techdirt.com

Whether the story submission page is still live behind the nav (blocked to fetchers)
Whether the op-ed program still accepts outside submissions at the same volume