Pitches wanted (environment, agriculture, public health) | $400+ per article
Added 2025-11-13 05:11:00 +0000 UTCCOMPANY/PUBLICATION: THE NEW REPUBLIC
Heather Souvaine Horn, Deputy Editor at The New Republic, is looking for pitches:
Please send me your climate, environment, agriculture, and public health pitches. If you sent one in recent weeks and got an OOTO or silence but have not yet placed the piece elsewhere, feel free to re-send.
Reportage, analysis, opinion, and essay pitches are all welcome. We publish in a range of registers, from the more technical or academic (as long as there's a clear tie-in for our readership), to diatribes (if interesting), to narrative, to lyrical reflections on life in a changing world.
Typical rate for shorter pieces (roughly 1000 to 1800 words) is $400, with adjustments upward for pieces that are longer or a heavier lift in other ways.
Pieces do not need to be quick responses to daily news (although please send those), but they should typically engage with current U.S. discourse in some way. I also have a soft spot for off-the-wall stuff, so please don't let the fact that your pitch is nutty dissuade you.
Finally, while The New Republic's bread and butter is national politics, we’re also looking for stories that aren’t standard DC-NY fare. If you live somewhere else and have a story to tell, please do send.
Email: hshorn@tnr.com
One more thing: please include links to your prior work — that’s always useful when pitching an editor you haven’t previously worked with.
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CONTACT INFORMATION (please do not share the email address publicly):
Questions/submissions: hshorn@tnr.com
Website: https://newrepublic.com/
TO HELP YOU CRAFT YOUR PITCH:
Learn more about the publication: The New Republic is a magazine and digital media outlet that publishes commentary, reporting, features and analysis on politics, culture and society. It covers news, opinion, in-depth essays, podcasts and multimedia content produced by staff and contributing writers. Its aim is to rethink traditional assumptions, provoke thoughtful debate and provide liberal-leaning insight into contemporary issues. More information here.
Read through its selection of recent articles/stories, categorized into: Climate, Environment, Agriculture
Review the submission guidelines here. Note that these are the publication's general guidelines to help you refine your pitch. You must still follow the editor's specific instructions above.
Check out our collection of pitch excerpts on this page and find more sample pitches at The Open Notebook and at SuccessfulPitches.com.
Do not forget to end your pitch with (1) a short introduction about yourself; (2) a few lines highlighting your writing experience, relevant credentials and publication credits; and (3) links to your strongest work or portfolio, and online profile.
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