Pitches wanted (social, racial, environmental justice) (worldwide) | $400+ per article

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: NEXT CITY 

Aysha Khan, Senior Editor at Next City, is looking for pitches:

Our Next City pitch guide has been freshly updated for 2023, and includes links to our freelance roster form as well as a number of topics and themes we're particularly interested in right now.

We’re always looking for stories about solutions to advance social, racial or environmental justice in cities. Rates start at $400. Guidelines: https://nextcity.org/pitch

Open to international writers? Yes! We mostly focus on the U.S. but are open to pitches from around the world.

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

• Submissions: aysha@nextcity.org
• Website: https://nextcity.org/

TO HELP YOU CRAFT YOUR PITCH:

• Learn more about the publication: Next City is a nonprofit news organization that believes journalists have the power to amplify solutions and help spread them from one city to the next. Its mission is to inspire greater economic, environmental, and social justice in cities. Next City supplies changemakers with information that fuels their fight for low-income neighborhoods. More information here.
• Read through its selection of recent articles/stories, categorized into: Gentrification, Poverty, Infrastructure, Police, Community Engagement, COVID-19
• 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 paragraph 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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