Pitches wanted (work) | ~$315 per article

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: BUSINESS INSIDER

Kiera Fields, Associate Editor (Freelance Desk) at Business Insider, is looking for pitches:

What's that I hear? Jingle bells? Reindeer hooves? NO! It's the sounds of my list of story ideas I am looking to commission before Christmas. Email me with sources and pitches kfields@insider.com.

IDEAS FOR STORIES FREELANCERS TO SOURCE:

600-800 words, please send potential sources/interviewees for these ideas to kfields@insider.com

Sources should be comfortable with their stories presented in the “as-told-to” format.

TOP PRIORITY:

• Stories about people’s retirement journey – I retired and moved in with my children, I retired and went traveling, I retired but got bored.
• I’m part of the DINK community. Here’s what I wish more people would know/what my life is like/what the benefits/drawbacks are.
• I’m a HENRY (high income, not rich yet). We’re in a unique place and I feel TK about my lifestyle.
• I got a higher salary but lifestyle creep meant I was actually eating into my savings. Here’s what it is and how to stop it.
• I driven for Uber, Lyft, TK rideshare apps. These are the best to worst.
• I’ve been a delivery driver for UberEats, DoorDash, Deliveroo. Here’s where they rank from tips to rider experiences.
• I paid TK a year to rent in NYC/London. It was/wasn’t worth not saving in my twenties.
• People who have built their dream house cheaply aboard (Thailand, the Philippines, Mexico)
• I’ve worked at these big retail chains. Here’s how they rank from pay to employee experience.
• Start-up/ employee scams →I started working for TK company. Turns out it wasn’t real/was a pyramid scheme
  I invested my life savings into what I thought was the next TK and I lost it all
  I quit my big tech job to go into crypto. Now I think it was all a scam/ worthless.
  

THINGS I’M ALWAYS INTERESTED IN:

• I have a transcription side hustle. Here’s how much I make a year.
• Stories about relocating for work/personal reasons to somewhere that wasn’t worth the hype.
• I hate my job and I have a bad manager, but I stay because TKTK
• I moved to Denmark/Sweden/Nordic country. Here are the main differences
• I bought a home on Zillow with a 1% deposit in Arizona. This is what the process was like.
• I always work during the holiday rush season in Amazon warehouses.
• It's a lot of work/I love it?
• I worked at Amazon/Target/big retail shop during the holidays and will never do it again.
• I worked with Bob Iger/ at Disney during the Iger/Chapak rival. This is what it was like.
• I'm a hospitality worker in Florence. Here's the mistakes tourist make when they visit.
• An ATT from someone working in the Bahamas who interacted with FTX employees or Sam Bankman-Fried himself
• I work at TK grocery store. Self-checkouts make my life hell/ easier.
• I’m an introvert making TK doing my remote side hustle. It’s great because I don’t have to speak  to anyone.
• I work on an oil rig. It’s the loneliest job in the world.
• I work in Sweden. We are encouraged to take coffee and cake breaks and an hour out of our work weeks to focus on wellbeing.

Let me know if you have sources in mind!

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

• Submissions: kfields@insider.com
• Website: https://www.businessinsider.com/

TO HELP YOU CRAFT YOUR PITCH:

• Learn more about the publication: Business Insider is a business site with deep financial, media, tech, and other industry verticals. It offers the latest news, sharp analyses and insightful commentaries on finance, markets, retails, healthcare, etc. from around the world. More information here.
• Read through a selection of recent jobs-related articles/stories on its website.
• Review the submission guidelines here. Note that these are the publication's general guidelines to help you refine your pitch. You must still follow the editor's specific instructions above.
• 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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