Pitches wanted (opinion, politics, Toronto) | 50 cents CAD per word
Added 2024-07-10 20:55:21 +0000 UTCCOMPANY/PUBLICATION: TORONTO STAR
Richard Warnica, Opinion Editor at Toronto Star, is looking for pitches:
As I settle further into my new role at the Star, I have an update on the kinds of pitches I'd love to see.
First and foremost, I am looking for distinctive, sharply written, deeply researched arguments about issues that our readers care about.
That includes politics, obviously. Provincial, federal and local. But it's also the life of this city. It's education, health care, how we interact with technology.
The key is, it has to be an argument.
We run a lot of freelance columns in the 600-800 word range. I'd love to see pitches for pieces in that range that key off the news, have a distinctive point of view and can be turned around fast.
But! That's not all.
We are also looking for longer pieces that bridge the divide between reporting and opinion. Again, they should speak to the issues this paper and its readers care about, but for these the approach can be more flexible.
What they have to have is a point of view - you and your opinion have to be on the page in some way - and reporting. I am not interested, for these pieces, in the view from behind your laptop. Get out into the world. Report. Research. Tell a story filtered through your opinion.
So! Please, pitch me columns with sharply made arguments about the issues in the news and reported essays with a deeply researched takes on the life and politics of this city.
A special plea: If you are a novelist, poet or CNF writer who has ever been interested in doing some reporting or adding reporting to their mix, reach out. I want to chat.
We generally pay about $.50 a word for pure opinion and more for reporting. But it does vary piece to piece.
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CONTACT INFORMATION (please do not share the email address publicly):
Questions/submissions: rwarnica@thestar.ca
Website: https://www.thestar.com/
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Learn more about the publication: The Toronto Star is a multi-platform news organization that informs, connects, investigates, reports and effects change. It focuses public attention on injustices of all kinds and on reforms designed to correct them. More information here.
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