Pitches wanted (lifestyle, London) | ~38 cents per word

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: CITY AM

Steve Dinneen, Life & Style Editor at City A.M., is looking for pitches:

The new City AM Magazine is out now (you can flick through it here: http://cityam.com/the-magazine) but I wanted to flag some of the stuff I love the most about it:

• Our cover interview with Benedict Cumberbatch is extremely fire for a start: he's usually a secretive man but he opens up about his family and his insecurities. Read Adam Bloodworth's interview here: https://www.cityam.com/benedict-cumberbatch-playing-misery-its-a-joy/

• My fave part of this job is commissioning my fave writers to write weird stuff they care about, like Kyle Macneill reminiscing about Frankie & Benny's "Time doesn’t pass here, in this liminal space somewhere between Leicester and Little Italy": https://cityam.com/frankie-bennys-why-this-failing-chain-still-holds-a-place-in-my-heart/

• Another first-time City AM writer is Chris Stokel-Walker, who writes brilliantly about the phenomena that is Footy Scran, the X account that changed the face of match-day meals: https://cityam.com/the-man-with-the-scran-how-the-footy-scran-x-account-changed-match-day-meals/ 

• Our very own Lucy Kenningham follows up her amazing piece on electricity pylons for the last issue with one I like EVEN MORE: a proper deep-dive into swimming pools, places you are "laid bare, equalised in a way that rarely happens anywhere else": https://www.cityam.com/washed-away-the-strange-nostalgic-world-of-public-swimming-pools/

• The City AM editor Andy Silvester took time off the election beat to spend a day with the London fox ambulance team, meeting a former rock-star in the process – "In a concrete world, there is something almost transgressive about our furry neighbours": https://cityam.com/the-fox-project-how-one-man-swapped-rock-stardom-for-a-life-rescuing-urban-foxes/

• You may not have heard of 'psychogeography' but in this excellent feature City AM's own Chris Dorrell says the French philosophy can change the way we interact with cities: https://cityam.com/psychogeography-how-to-reclaim-the-urban-environment/

• And I wrote a thing, too, interviewing Kiefer Sutherland about everything from student protests to getting old and the time the FBI stormed his house and arrested his mum: https://www.cityam.com/kiefer-sutherland-clint-eastwood-is-the-director-hollywood-needs/

• In fact I wrote two things, only one of which involved me storming out of an interview with an A-list celeb, yelling expletives as I went: https://cityam.com/i-told-henry-cavills-pr-to-fk-off-when-interviews-go-wrong/

• So much more good stuff – there's Adam Hay-Nicholls chucking a bright orange Aston Martin Vantage through the streets of Seville in the way only AHN can: https://cityam.com/aston-martin-vantage-driving-the-orange-beast-through-seville

• Our watch editor Alex Doak continues to smash it on our watch pages, including this feature on the most iconic use of timepieces in movies: https://cityam.com/the-best-movie-watches-from-pulp-fiction-to-james-bond

I am now looking for pitches for September and December. Rate: 30p/word.

My faves from the current issue should be a good reference point. We’re much more Sunday supplement than glossy weekly magazine in tone/style for what it's worth.

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CONTACT INFORMATION (please do not share the email address publicly):

• Questions/submissions: steve.dinneen@cityam.com

• Website: https://www.cityam.com

TO HELP YOU CRAFT YOUR PITCH:

• Learn more about the publication: City A.M. is a financial and business newspaper read by workers across the capital each weekday. It covers the latest economic, political and business news as well as comment, sport and lifestyle features. More information here.

• Read through a selection of recent articles/stories on its website.

• 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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