Saturday, August 6th 2022
Vice is a digital media and
broadcasting company. Their newly appointed US editorial director is looking
for life and culture pitches. Rates start at $0.50/word and are higher for
features. If interested, email your pitches to amyrose.spiegel@vice.com. To read
their editor’s Tweet, click here. To
visit their website, click here.
Sunday, June 19th 2022
The senior commissioning
editor of VICE UK/Noisey is seeking 18 to 25 year old freelance music
bloggers/content creators who can tiktok + write for them. According to payment
reports, they pay up to 30p per word for features. To read their editor’s
Tweet, click here.
To visit their website, click here.
Thursday, April 7th 2022
Vice
UK’s newly appointed culture editor is looking for culture ideas. Their editor is
also “commissioning a few pieces on LIFE, internet culture, queerness, sex /
relationships, etc.” According to payment reports, they pay up to 30p per word
for features. Email your pitches to daisy.jones@vice.com.
To read their culture editor’s Twitter thread, click here.
To visit their website, click here.
Sunday, January 9th 2022
Vice
UK’s commissioning editor is seeking unique stories on “internet culture,
queerness, weird trends, nightlife, sex, pop culture, style, LIFE.” They are
interested in features as well as pieces where you go out and try a theory for
yourself. They are not interested in op-eds. According to payment reports, they
pay up to 30p per word for features. If interested, send your pitches to daisy.jones@vice.com. To read their
commissioning editor’s Twitter thread, click here. To
visit their website, click here.
Tuesday, September 14th 2021
Vice
UK’s commissioning editor is seeking “stories about getting into – and out of –
debt” for The Debt Collection column. According to payment reports, they pay up
to 30p per word for features. Pitches should be sent to ryan.bassil@vice.com. To learn more,
refer to their commissioning editor’s Tweet. To
read The Debt Collection column, refer to this page.
Sunday, September 12th 2021
VICE UK is looking for pitches for their ‘The Debt Collection’ column. This is a collection of stories of getting into – and out of –
debt. Details in their commissioning editor’s Tweet here.
Tuesday, July 20th 2021
Vice
Culture’s editorial director is seeking hip-hop writers in Atlanta. They will pay
$600. If interested, email leslie.horn@vice.com.
To learn more, refer to their editorial director’s Tweet and
their pitch
guidelines.
Sunday, May 2nd 2021
Vice is a digital media and broadcasting
company. They are seeking personal essays from young writers in Asia: “Blood
may be thicker than water but let’s not kid ourselves, families can be HARD
(wwyd if your parents passed racist comments?) — looking for writers who don’t
think twice about calling out their families.” According to their features
editor, their baseline rate is $0.50 per word. To learn more, refer to this
Twitter
thread. To contact them, refer to this page.
Sunday, April 25th 2021
Vice UK’s associate editor is seeking
stories about getting into – and out of – debt for The Debt Collection column.
According
to payment reports, they pay up to 30p per word for features. If interested,
email your pitches to ryan.bassil@vice.com.
Read their associate editor’s Tweet here and
The Debt Collection column here.
Tuesday, January 5th 2021
Vice UK’s associate editor is looking for
new pitches and fresh ideas, especially “anything relating to: queerness, sex,
the internet, mental health, style, subculture.” According to payment reports, they
pay up to 30p per word for features. If interested, send pitches to daisy.jones@vice.com. Read their
associate editor’s Twitter thread here
and visit their website here.
Saturday, November 7th 2020
The features editor of Vice UK has
tweeted, “Hey if you have any ideas for reported news features, investigations
etc. that could work for Vice World News then send me a pitch. Mainly UK
stories but with one eye beyond these borders too.” For reported pieces, the
rates of Vice World News start at a minimum of 50 cents/word. If interested, email
your pitches to simon.childs@vice.com.
To learn more, refer to this Tweet
and this page.
Tuesday, October 6th 2020
The Culture, Life, and Magazine side of
the Vice Features Team has posted their pitch guidelines and would love to hear
from writers. Some topics that they are particularly interested in are:
“On the culture side: profiles of up-and-coming and established artists, performers, and celebrities; smart investigations into celebrity culture; interrogations into the world of fame; nuanced food stories not being tackled elsewhere. On the life side: stories about college and academic life, and of the lives of people that age not in school; coverage of the underbelly of influencer and wellness culture. In both: lighter fare, investigations, and thoughtfully reported essays, personal and otherwise.”
For digital pieces, their rates start at about $0.50 per assigned
word. For magazine pieces, they pay $0.50 per word for pieces of under 3,000
assigned words, and $1 per word for pieces of 3,000 to 5,000 assigned words. To
learn more, refer to this Tweet and
their pitch
guide.
Monday, September 28th 2020
Tipping Point is a series by Vice that
covers “environmental justice stories about the people and communities
experiencing the stark reality of our changing planet.” They are accepting
pitches for stories. They are especially looking for stories from people from
underserved communities. They pay $300 to $700 per story. Send pitches to tippingpoint@vice.com. To learn more,
refer to this Twitter
thread. To read Tipping Point’s stories, refer to this page.
Friday, September 18th 2020
Vice is a digital media and broadcasting
company. Their senior features editor has tweeted, “We are going to be
commissioning ambitious international features and investigations on gender,
inequality, development, colonialism, religion, security, health, misconduct,
extremism, climate change, and more. We’re interested in stories from all over
the world, and though stories can touch on issues and people in the U.S., they
must have an international component. Countries and areas of particular
interest right now (and this list is not exhaustive): Chad, South Sudan, Sudan,
Burundi, Mozambique, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Brazil, Iran, China, Antarctica, and the
Arctic.” Their baseline rate is $0.50 per word. Pitches should be sent to leah.feiger@vice.com. Read their editor’s
Twitter thread here and
learn more about them here.
Tuesday, September 8th 2020
Vice UK has launched a new column called
The Debt Collection which features “stories from young people about getting
into – and out of – debt.” Their associate editor is looking for pitches for this
column. According to one payment report, they paid 20p per word. To learn more,
refer to their associate editor’s Tweet. To
read The Debt Collection column, refer to this page.
Tuesday, August 4th 2020
Vice Life Desk’s senior editor is
accepting freelance pitches specifically about “relationships, sex, money,
work, identity, and health,” and she always wants to read essays of all
stripes. They usually pay $0.50
per word. Send your pitches to amyrose.spiegel@vice.com.
Read their senior editor’s Tweet here and
their pitch guidelines here.
Tuesday, July 14th 2020
VICE World News is looking for narrative features and investigations that have an international scope. They are particularly interested in stories that overlap with the core coverage areas of VICE: “extremism, nationalism, climate change, inequality, drugs, and sex.” Their rates for reported pieces start at a minimum of 50 cents. Writers can send their pitches to maxwell.strachan@vice.com and tim.marchman@vice.com. To learn more, refer to their senior features editor’s Tweet and this page.
Monday, April 20th 2020
Vice Life Desk covers wellness, health, self-care,
relationships, sex, drugs, alcohol, work, and money. Their senior editor is
accepting pitches. They are “primarily focused on mid-length (700-1,500 word)
original reports and reported essays, as well as shorter, bloggier, voicier
pieces with a quick turnaround time.” They usually pay $0.50 per word. Send
pitches to amyrose.spiegel@vice.com.
For details, refer to their senior editor’s Tweet and
their pitch
guidelines.
Tuesday, March 10th 2020
The senior editor of Vice is accepting coronavirus/economy
pitches. According to payment reports, they pay an average of $0.25 per word. The
pitches should be sent to maxwell.strachan@vice.com.
To read their senior editor’s Twitter post, visit this link.
To contact them and to learn how to pitch them, visit this link.