Pitches wanted (grassroots journalism, social movements, labor, etc.) | $100-$250 CAD per article
Added 2025-05-28 17:56:54 +0000 UTCCOMPANY/PUBLICATION: THE MEDIA CO-OP
The Media Co-op is a grassroots media outlet that has been publishing in so-called Canada for around 20 years. We publish (and pay for) grassroots journalism focused on important issues and struggles based in or related to the Canadian context.
Send your pitch to info@medicoop.ca.
How to pitch: https://mediacoop.ca/pitches2021
Our contributors' guidelines: https://mediacoop.ca/contributors2021
The pieces we publish often focus on things like:
Indigenous land and water defence
climate justice
Palestine solidarity
housing, homelessness, and tenant rights
struggles related to policing, state violence, and white supremacy
labour struggles and worker organizing
resisting the far right
grassroots work that is feminist, trans, queer, and/or anti-racist
disability struggles
community organizing
impacts of the Canadian state and Canadian corporations in other countries
and lots more.
*Though we welcome pitches related to any local context within so-called Canada, at the moment we are particularly interested in stories by or about social movements in Montreal, especially migrant justice movements.*
Please send us your pitch!
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CONTACT INFORMATION (please do not share the email address publicly):
Questions/submissions: info@mediacoop.ca
Website: https://mediacoop.ca/
TO HELP YOU CRAFT YOUR PITCH:
Learn more about the publication: The Media Co-op is a national, reader-funded media cooperative that publishes grassroots journalism focused on social justice, Indigenous rights, labor, and environmental issues. It features news reports, opinion pieces, and multimedia content contributed by community members, activists, and independent journalists. The platform seeks to amplify underrepresented voices and foster democratic media production through a cooperative, member-driven model. More information here.
Read through its selection of recent articles/stories, categorized into: Peace/War, Prisons, Housing, Education, Migration, Ideas, Labour, Indigenous
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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