Pitches wanted (grassroots journalism, important issues) | ~16 cents CAD per word

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: THE MEDIA CO-OP

Send us your pitches! We want to pay you for grassroots journalism focused on important issues and struggles in or related to the Canadian context. Get in touch at info@medicoop.ca.

How to pitch: https://mediacoop.ca/pitches2021

Guidelines: https://mediacoop.ca/contributors2021

The pieces we publish often focus on things like Indigenous land and water defence; climate justice; 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.

We publish articles that are between 600 and 1500 words in length. We pay from $100 to $250, with the higher end of that range reserved for articles that involve more research and more reporting.

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 publishes grassroots journalism in the Canadian context. It is a media organization with a co-operative structure, centering the voices and experiences of ordinary people. More information here.
• Read through its selection of recent articles/stories, categorized into: Peace/War, Prisons, Housing, Education, Migration, Ideas
• Review the submission guidelines here and here.
• 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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