Pitches wanted (Toronto, healthcare) | 75 cents per word
Added 2025-09-30 22:19:20 +0000 UTCCOMPANY/PUBLICATION: THE LOCAL MAGAZINE
Nick Hune Brown, Senior Editor at The Local, is looking for pitches:
Call for pitches: we're assigning for The Local Magazine's winter issue. Going back to our roots with a healthcare issue, and specifically interested in stories about privatization and places where money and health collide. Features, essays, first-person, etc., starting at 0.75 cents/word. nick@thelocal.to
No hard deadline, we'll roll out assignments, but we'll start to look at pitches at the end of next week
CONTACT INFORMATION (please do not share the email address publicly):
Questions/submissions: nick@thelocal.to
Website: https://thelocal.to
TO HELP YOU CRAFT YOUR PITCH:
Learn more about the publication: The Local is an independent magazine exploring urban health and social issues in Toronto. It takes a data-driven, yet authentically human approach to storytelling on pressing issues facing the city, from poverty and homelessness, to mental health, aging, and food insecurity. The Local publishes in-depth features, essays, data journalism and commentary, alongside multimedia and other experimental forms of storytelling. More information here.
Read through its selection of recent articles/stories, categorized into: Elections, Housing, Health Care, Education, Labour, Transportation, Mental Health, Immigration
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