Tuesday, August 13th 2024
Wired is a magazine and website that covers the current and future trends in technology. Their features editor is commissioning ambitious narrative longform journalism. They’re particularly seeking stories and writers from outside the U.S. Rates start at about $2,500. Send your pitches to amit_katwala@wired.com. To learn more, refer to their features editor’s post. To contact them, refer to this page.
Tuesday, July 16th 2024
Wired is a magazine and website that covers the current and future trends in technology. Their editor is looking for business-related pitches (particularly scoops) or news tips. Rates are $500 for shorter, bloggier posts and $800 for 1,000 to 1,200-word reported stories. To learn more, refer to their editor’s post and their pitch guidelines.
Saturday, July 6th 2024
Wired is a magazine and website that covers the current and future trends in technology. They’re accepting pitches for Wired Travel, their new destination for “all things transportation, aviation, vacation, and more.” Their standard web rates begin at $500 per story. If interested, email your pitches to alan_henry@wired.com. To learn more, refer to this post and this page.
Sunday, April 21st 2024
Wired is a magazine and website that covers the current and future trends in technology. Their business editor is looking to commission “exclusive, interesting, and weird stories.” The editor hasn’t mentioned the rates, but according to this post by their senior politics editor, rates begin at $500 per article. If interested, email natasha_bernal@wired.com. To learn more, refer to their business editor’s post and their updated guidelines.
Tuesday, March 12th 2024
Wired is a magazine and website that covers the current and future trends in technology. Their politics team is seeking pitches. They focus on “disinfo, online extremism and conspiracies, tech legislation, influencers and grifters, AI in politics, and anything strange or manipulative in that vein!” Their rates begin at $500. If interested, send your pitches to leah_feiger@wired.com. To learn more, refer to their editor’s post. To contact them, refer to this page.
Tuesday, May 9th 2023
Wired is a magazine and website that
covers the current and future trends in technology. Their Ideas editor is accepting pitches for two new series: one is software criticism and the other one is
about the future of morality. Pay starts at $500. Send your pitches to ideas@wired.com. Read their Ideas editor’s
Twitter thread here
and their pitch guide here.
Thursday, April 6th 2023
Wired is a magazine and website that covers the current and future trends in technology. Their deputy Ideas editor has tweeted, “‘Platform.’ ‘Database.’ ‘Swipe.’ How did these words get lodged in our collective vocabulary, and what do they conjure? We’re spinning up a series for WIRED Ideas where each essay will parse the meaning and significance—personal, cultural, historical—of a different word in the digital lexicon, and I want you to pitch me!” As per their pitch guidelines, they pay $500 to $2,500+ per piece. Pitches can be sent to ideas@wired.com. To read their deputy Ideas editor’s Twitter thread, click here. To read Wired Idea’s pitch guide, click here.
Friday, February 24th 2023
Wired is a magazine and website that covers the current and future trends in technology. They’re accepting pitches for their Ideas section. The section features argument-driven essays (1,500-2,800 words) that are complex and analytical and often include reporting. Rates for essays begin at $500. Pitches can be sent to ideas@wired.com. To learn more, read their deputy ideas editor’s tweet and their pitch guide.
Thursday, January 19th 2023
Wired is a magazine and website that
covers the current and future trends in technology. Their editor would love to
hear pitches for stories from anywhere, but especially Asia, Africa, and the
Middle East. Their web freelance rates begin at $500. If interested, email your
pitches to peter.guest@wired.com.
Read their editor’s tweet here.
Learn how to pitch stories to them here.
Friday, January 6th 2023
Wired is a magazine that covers the current and future trends in technology. Their Ideas editor is looking for more pitches for the Ideas section. The section features argument-driven essays (1,500-2,800 words) that are complex and analytical and often include reporting. Rates begin at $500. Send your pitches to ideas@wired.com. To read their Ideas editor’s Twitter thread, click here. To learn how to pitch Wired Ideas, click here.
Tuesday, July 19th 2022
Wired is a magazine that covers the current and future trends in technology. Their editor for business coverage is open for pitches. According to their pitch guidelines, they pay $500 to $2,500+ per piece. If interested, email your pitches to tom_simonite@wired.com. To read their editor’s Tweet, click here. To read their pitch guidelines, click here.
Tuesday, June 28th 2022
Wired is a magazine that covers the current and future trends in technology. Their senior editor, security is seeking pitches for privacy/security/surveillance pieces related to post-Roe America. They will pay at least $500 per published piece. There is no deadline for submission of pitches. To read their senior editor’s Tweet, click here. To read their pitch guidelines, click here.
Tuesday, May 24th 2022
Wired
is a magazine that covers the current and future trends in technology. Their
Ideas editor is looking for pitches and is “particularly interested in pieces
related to democracy and governance, abortion, and future of work.” Pay starts
at $500 for essays. Read their Ideas editor’s Twitter thread here and
their pitch guidelines here.
Tuesday, April 26th 2022
Wired
is a magazine that covers the current and future trends in technology. They are
seeking pitches for Start (Wired UK’s front section in print). They are looking
for start-up profiles, interviews, infographics, and strong visuals – pieces are
usually 600 words long. They don’t want pieces on NFTs. Rates for stories start
at about $2,500. For more information, read this Twitter
thread and their pitch guidelines.
Friday, April 8th 2022
Wired
is a magazine that covers the current and future trends in technology. They are
looking for magazine features. They want surreal, illuminating, and delicious stories.
The sweet spot for features is about 5,000 words. Rates for stories start at
about $2,500. Rates for short, online-only content start at $500. For details,
refer to their research director & editor’s Tweet and
their pitch
guide.
Tuesday, January 18th 2022
Wired
is a magazine that covers the current and future trends in technology. Their Ideas
editor is seeking essays on science and tech for their Ideas section. The
pieces published in this section are complex and analytical and often include
reporting. They are especially interested in hearing from underrepresented
groups and voices outside the US. Their rates start at $500 per piece (1,200-1,800
words). Pitches should be emailed to ideas@wired.com.
Read their Ideas editor’s Twitter thread here and their
pitch guide here.
Sunday, January 16th 2022
Wired
is a magazine that covers the current and future trends in technology. Their
business editor in the UK has tweeted, “I want to expand Wired's freelance
network in Europe and beyond for commissions in 2022! If you have plenty of
experience reporting on tech/business and have great contacts and ideas, please
get in touch. If you don't have a pitch, say hi anyway! According to their
pitch guidelines, they pay $500 to $2,500+ per piece. If interested, email natasha_bernal@wired.com. To learn
more, refer to their business editor’s Twitter
thread and their pitch
guidelines.
Friday, October 15th 2021
Wired
is a magazine that covers the current and future trends in technology. Their
features editor is accepting pitches for feature stories. According to their
pitch guide, the sweet spot for features is about 5,000 words. Rate is $1/word
or more. Pitches should be sent to camille_bromley@wired.com.
For details, refer to their features editor’s Tweet and
their pitch
guide.
Friday, March 5th 2021
Wired is a magazine that covers the
current and future trends in technology. Their gaming editor is looking for gaming pitches (for May-Dec pub). They like diverse stories by diverse writers. If
interested, send profiles, short features, hot takes, or deep dives that fit their
style to saira_mueller@wired.com.
They usually pay $500 per piece. To learn more, refer to their gaming editor’s Tweet
and their pitch
guide.
Sunday, December 13th 2020
Wired is a magazine
that covers the current and future trends in technology. Their gaming editor is
seeking freelance pitches. “If you have a great innovative feature, how-to
guide, or community story idea in games or esports,” then send your pitches to saira_mueller@wired.com. Rates for
short “minifeatures” start at $3,000 and backchannel features start at $1,000.
Rates for other short, online-only content start at $250. For more information,
read their gaming editor’s Twitter
thread and their pitch
guidelines.
Thursday, August 20th 2020
Wired Science covers health, medicine,
biotech, environment, climate, robotics, space, and energy. They are looking
for stories to run in August and September. They want stories (800 to 1,200
words) that focus on “current science issues or research, with a variety of
expert voices and anecdotal sources.” They seek “diversity in terms of writers,
sources and story topics.” According to their pitch guidelines, rates for short
“minifeatures” start at $3,000 and rates for other short, online-only content
start at $250. Email your pitches to kara_platoni@wired.com.
For details, refer to this Twitter
thread and their pitch
guidelines.
Sunday, August 2nd 2020
Wired is a magazine that covers the
current and future trends in technology. They assign long-form print features
(mostly 5,000 words) and long-form online features for the Backchannel section of
their site (mostly 5,000 words) to contributors from outside their staff. They
also assign a smaller number of freelance stories for their business, science,
and service sections. Their rates for short “minifeatures” start at $3,000 and Backchannel
features start at $1,000. Their rates for other short, online-only content
start at $250. For details, refer to this Tweet
and their pitch guidelines.