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Fatima Saif, April 7th, 2026
Business Insider covers business, personal finance, tech, lifestyle, politics, and more. Their editor is seeking pitches for first-person essays. Topics they’re actively pursuing include:
“- Expensive family trips you took and liked or didn’t like (will need to provide receipts for fact-checking)
- Budget family vacations you would/wouldn’t go on again (will need to provide receipts for fact-checking)
- Moving/relocation regrets, surprises, benefits
- Encouraging/discouraging extracurricular activities — sports, dance, etc. — based on cost (will need to provide receipts for fact-checking)
- Unique approaches to childcare (after-school or early education)
- Parenting regrets
- Pulling money out of your retirement account for travel, daily living expenses, childcare, etc. (will need to provide proof for fact-checking)
- Unique graduation gifts for your kids (travel, a session with a financial advisor, etc.)
- Paying for your older child’s housing (after college)”
Rates start at around $225 for essays of around 500-600 words. If interested, send your pitches to jgoldblatt@insider.com. To learn more, refer to their editor’s post. To contact them, refer to this page.