The Breach is an independent Canadian media outlet producing critical journalism to help map a just, viable future. They welcomes pitches for written journalist. According to their pitch guide, they pay $150-200 CAD for shorter opinion or analysis articles (approximately 750 to 1200 words), $250-400 CAD for longer features (1200 to 2500 words) and $400 and up for videos. Pay for investigative articles that involve more work are negotiated case by case. To learn more, refer to this page.
Escapism is a travel print magazine published by twenty-two, a Canadian publishing house and creative agency. They pay for print-first travel guides, which are then repurposed online. Their travel features are also included in the company's food magazine, Foodism. For those, features don’t have to have a food or beverage angle, but they do need a unique perspective. Escapism's travel guides are less about first-person experiences in longform, and more about what to see, eat and do in a given destination. According to their pitch guide, they pay $600 for features of 1,200 – 1,500 words, and $0.40 per word for the travel guides, which should be 500 words and up. To learn more, refer to this page.
Foodism is a food print magazine published by twenty-two, a Canadian publishing house and creative agency. They pay for print-first features, which are then repurposed online, and are interested in original stories that explore Toronto’s diverse and layered food scene. They also accept travel features, which must have a unique perspective. According to their pitch guide, they pay $600 for 1,200 – 1,500 words. To learn more, refer to this page.
HI USA bring travelers together in the largest hostel network in the USA. They believe in the power of travel to foster a deeper understanding of people, places, and cultures. They encourage submissions and perspectives from members of communities that are often excluded from or marginalized in the travel space. All of their writers get paid. To learn more, refer to this page.
FUSION aims to publish fresh, informed writing about politics, society, and culture. They are particularly interested in submissions that demonstrate serious (which need not mean uncritical) engagement with classical liberal, conservative, and libertarian ideas. Their formats are a Monthly Essay of 3000-4000 words and a Perspective of about 1500 words. Contributions are paid at a competitive rate. To learn more, refer to this page.
Curationist enables users and communities to seek, find, and reimagine cultural heritage through their vast archives of open access images, radical work with metadata, and editorial features shining light on marginalized histories of art and objects. They seek proposals for their editorial features and want to hear from arts writers, artists, historians, curators, librarians, archivists, and anyone in the GLAM field. The editorial features critically investigate and contextualize the Works in open access archives. According to their guidelines, they pay $1500 (aiming for ~1500 words). To learn more, refer to this page.
TechCabal is Africa’s leading technology publication, dedicated to covering Africa’s vibrant technology industry, particularly its players, its human, and economic impact. They are looking for writers who can produce fact-checked, deeply reported, engaging and nuanced narratives on innovative startups, the business of tech, policymaking, and human interest stories. They are open to writers who reside in any part of the continent but particularly those based in Johannesburg, Nairobi, Cairo, Dakar, and Tunis. According to their pitch guide, they pay $175 for features that are between 1,000-1,200 words. To learn more, refer to this page.
Psyche is a digital magazine dedicated to helping readers to better understand themselves and live well. Psychology and philosophy are central to Psyche, and many of their writers are clinical or research psychologists, philosophers, as well as historians, literary critics and other disciplinary experts. Among the articles they are interested in are Ideas, articles of 1,000-1,800 words by academic and clinical experts, and Guides, articles of approximately 2,000 words that provide sophisticated, expert-written self-help for overcoming a specific problem or succeeding at a particular challenge. They pay all of their writers. To pitch them, refer to this page.
Public Source is Pittsburgh’s home for impactful journalism and community-driven storytelling. They are mostly looking for first-person essays and local stories. According to their rate sheet, they pay $300 to $1,000. To learn more, refer to this page.
The Land, Food, and Freedom Journal is a nonprofit publication that curates “interdisciplinary conversations about Black food sovereignty, land justice, and art.” They publish work within the categories of “Land, Food, Freedom, and Culture.” They welcome essays, prose, poetry, reviews, recipes, multimedia pieces, visual art, and more. They offer an honorarium of $350 to $750 per piece. For details, refer to this page and their rate sheet.
Governing provides news, analysis and insights for the people making government work. It is a trusted source of record for people who lead, manage and direct public agencies as they work towards well-managed, vibrant and resilient communities. They welcome pitches from journalists for stories and features on issues of interest to state and local government, including the effects of dramatic changes in technology, demography, climate and the economy that are driving societal transformation, as well as explorations of politics, policy, public management, infrastructure, public finance, social issues and economic development. They pay freelancers competitively. To learn more, refer to this page.
Good Tape is a magazine and creative studio based in Los Angeles and Brooklyn. They aim to elevate both cultural and critical coverage of the podcast industry. According to their pitch information, rates for digital starts at $0.30/word and $0.50/word for print, both of which informs a flat fee. To learn more, refer to this page.
The Floor Magazine is an online and print publication celebrating black art and their artists. They welcome pitches for reviews of art (music albums, films, books, photography exhibitions etc), commentary, interviews (Q&A or profile), personal essays, and long form essays. They pay a flat rate for 800-1200 word pieces. To learn more, refer to this page.
Jamhoor is a Left media platform focusing on South Asia and its diasporas. They welcome pitches for short commentaries/op-eds (500-1000 words), long-form essays (1000-3000 words), book reviews (for which they can supply free review copies), and creative writing: poetry and prose (any length). According to their pitch guide, they pay 100 Canadian dollars per contribution. To learn more, refer to this page.
AFM is the magazine of Feeld, a dating app for the curious; those open to experiencing people and relationships in new ways. They are looking to publish new work from contributors of all kinds—whether that’s essays, art, fiction, poetry, photography, or any medium you can think of. According to their pitch guide, they pay $800USD for fiction, $500USD for poetry, and $1/word for essays, features, profiles, interviews, with a typical word count of 1500-2000 words. To learn more, refer to this page.
The Dispatch publishes thoughtful, rigorous, independent journalism about Birmingham and the West Midlands more generally. They are looking for work which is engrossing, exciting and fun to read. According to their guidelines, they pay around £200 for a quick-hit and approximately £300 for something more reported. They also have the budget to pay significantly more for highly investigative stories that take months of work and can cover reporting expenses. To learn more, refer to this page.
The Bell is a newspaper for Glasgow, delivered via email. Their mission is to cover Glasgow with rich, deeply reported journalism – including fantastic narrative long reads, thoughtful political analysis and stories that portray the variety, drama and fun of the city’s life. They welcome pitches which will tell engrossing, exciting and fun stories. According to their pitch guide, they pay around £200 for a quick-hit and approximately £300 for something more reported. They have the budget to pay significantly more for highly investigative stories that take months of work and also cover reporting expenses. To learn more, refer to this page.
Rhizome champions born-digital art and culture through commissions, exhibitions, scholarship, and digital preservation. They publish writing by artists and specialists for an art-interested audience. They accept pitches for articles that offer new research and perspectives on works in two of their categories: ArtBase and #Artist Profiles. According to their guidelines, rates are $250 for Artist Profiles and $0.50-$0.75/word (up to 1500 words) for articles about works in the Rhizome ArtBase. To learn more, refer to this page.
The Cap Times is a local news organization delivering authoritative journalism focused on Madison, Wisconsin, and beyond. They welcome pitches from freelance journalists. According to their pitch guide, typical rate for a freelance story ranges from $100 for short assignments like reviews to $150 for news articles with several sources. The rate for more in-depth reporting, such as a 2,000-word cover story, can range from $500 to $700. Rates are determined by assigning editors on a case-by-case basis. To learn more, refer to this page.
Digital Frontier Magazine is “a physical manifestation of the biggest forces impacting the digital world.” The magazine is filled with “deeply reported stories that explore how technology is influencing how we live, work and spend our money, complemented by arresting visuals.” According to their editor, rates for online pieces start at £350 for 1,200 to 1,500 words. To contact them, refer to this page.
Balls & Strikes is “a site for critical, progressive, and bullshit-free commentary about courts, judges, and the legal system they uphold.” They’re always seeking new voices. Their coverage focuses on “the real-world consequences of what judges do, and not on parsing the precise jurisprudential philosophy they did or did not apply in order to arrive at a given result.” Rates are $500 for essays of around 1,000 words. If interested, send your pitches to pitches@ballsandstrikes.org. For more information, refer to this page.
Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library. They believe everyone’s experience of health matters. Through their collections, exhibitions and events, in books and online, they explore the past, present and future of health. They publish stories about health and human experience written by storytellers of differing levels of experience and from varied backgrounds. They commission stories in formats such as standalone articles (which include opinion and personal experience and are usually about 1,000 words), and long reads (which are 2,000 words). According to their pitch guide, they pay 55p per word. To learn more, refer to this page.
STAT delivers trusted and authoritative journalism about health, medicine, and the life sciences. They're looking for ideas that check the boxes of a great STAT story: smart, compelling, original reporting that takes readers inside the world of health, medicine, and scientific discovery. They're especially interested in features, trend stories, and in-depth analysis. According to their pitch guide, they generally pay $1 per word, and might pay more for a story in certain circumstances, such as if a piece requires an unusually extensive amount of reporting. To learn more, refer to this page.
BrainFacts is an editorially independent source of brain and nervous system information presented by the Society for Neuroscience. It tells the story of scientific discoveries, the people behind them, and how it relates to our everyday lives. They're looking for freelance science writers, journalists, and multimedia creators with a strong portfolio in science communication to pitch them story ideas about the brain and nervous system. They assign long (1000-1200 words), medium (700-900 words), and short-form (500-800 words) written and multimedia stories. According to their pitch guide, they pay a flat rate for assignments based on roughly a dollar (USD) per word. To learn more, refer to this page.
Greater Good, the online magazine of the Greater Good Science Center, reports on scientific findings into the roots of individual and collective well-being, positive relationships, and compassionate behavior—what they call “the science of a meaningful life.” They are looking for experienced journalists or subject-matter experts, and don't accept articles on spec, only pitches. According to their pitch guide, their base rate is 25 cents per assigned word. For certain types of pieces, they pay a flat rate: $220 for a research brief; $300 for a Q&A with an interview subject; $200-300 for pieces originally published elsewhere that require revision, and $300 for personal essays. To learn more, refer to this page.
IFLScience is dedicated to demystifying the world of science and making it accessible and enjoyable for everyone. Their editors are looking for contributions in the form of feature-length pieces on any subject with a STEM angle. All features are paid opportunities, and rates for features will be discussed with commissioned pitches. To learn more, refer to this page.
Carla is a Los Angeles-based print and online magazine that features critical essays, photo essays, interviews, and reviews of exhibitions in L.A. For their print magazine, they pay $375 for feature essays (1,500 to 2,000 words), $350 for interviews (1,200 to 1,500 words), and $200 for reviews (650 to 850 words). For short online reviews (400 to 500 words), they pay $200. To learn more, refer to their submissions page, print submission guidelines, and online submission guidelines.
Naked Politics is facilitating younger people’s political and democratic action- beyond just voting every few years. Through media and education, their work intends to support and feed into a greater understanding of how young people can fight for political change.They are always looking for young people (16-29) who want to write for them. They welcome pitches for commentary/opinion pieces on current issues related to young people, investigative features, and interview profiles. According to their pitch guide, they pay a rate of £50 per article but will pay more if the article includes interviews or more in depth investigative reporting. To learn more, refer to this page.
The Public Eye Magazine is published by the Political Research Associates, a social justice research and strategy center devoted to supporting organizations, civic leaders, journalists, and social sectors that are building a more just and inclusive democratic society. They oublish original, long-form features, research-based analysis, and commentary on the U.S. and Global Right. They welcome pitches for long-form features, commentaries and short articles, interviews and reviews. According to their guidelines, they pay $350-$1,500, depending on the type of article. To learn more, refer to this page.
The Arkansas Advocate is a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization dedicated to tough, fair daily reporting and investigative journalism that holds public officials accountable and focuses on the relationship between the lives of Arkansans and public policy. They invite independent journalists to pitch their ideas, whether they have decades of journalism experience or next to none. They seek ideas that are fresh and fulfill their mission to influence the conversation in Arkansas with groundbreaking reporting on issues of importance to Arkansans. Every pitch should include a plan for art. According to their guidelines, they pay $250-$750 depending on the type of piece, and an additional $25 for each photo they run. To learn more, refer to this page.