Pitches wanted (labor) | up to $1.25 per word
Added 2024-08-12 22:25:31 +0000 UTCCOMPANY/PUBLICATION: ECONOMIC HARDSHIP REPORTING PROJECT
Deadline: 16 August 2024 (ideally, but we're open to pitches arriving after that)
Calling all labor journalists!
Economic Hardship Reporting Project (EHRP) wants your Labor Day-related stories — from reports on worker organizing and labor justice to historical deep-dives, first-person essays, and more.
We give grants to independent journalists for their work. Keep reading for instructions on how to pitch.
Our rates:
Reported personal essays: $750 to $1,500
News stories: $800 to $1,500
Features: $1 to $1.25 per word
IMPORTANT: See our submission guidelines for more details on pitching and our media partnership process at economichardship.org.
How to send a pitch:
Send ideas via our PITCH PORTAL. This spells out exactly what we're looking for in a pitch and speeds up the decision-making process, getting you an answer (and hopefully a grant) faster.
Pitching tips:
Read our work! Tons of great examples in the Submission Guidelines and our website: https://economichardship.org/category/workers/
Subscribe to our newsletter for our latest stories, editor insights, recommendations, and more: https://economichardship.org/subscribe
Deadline: Ideally by 8/16, but we're open to pitches arriving after that. (Please read our submission guidelines so you can gather all the required material for the application.)
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CONTACT INFORMATION:
Submissions: Via the webform
Website: https://economichardship.org/
TO HELP YOU CRAFT YOUR PITCH:
Learn more about the publication: The Economic Hardship Reporting Project (EHRP) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting and amplifying journalism that focuses on economic inequality in the United States. EHRP funds and publishes stories that highlight the struggles of Americans facing financial hardship, with the goal of bringing these issues to the forefront of public discourse. The project collaborates with a wide range of media outlets to ensure that underreported stories about poverty, economic injustice, and the impact of policy decisions reach a broad audience. More information here.
Read through its selection of recent articles/stories, categorized into: Education, Families, Health, Inequality, Living
Review the submission guidelines here.
Check out our collection of pitch excerpts on this page and find more sample pitches at The Open Notebook Database 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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