Pitches wanted (gear, gadgets) | $1 per word

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Daniel Varghese, Gear and Gadgets Editor at The Wall Street Journal, is looking for pitches:

I am looking to assign a bunch of stories for Gear and Gadget print slots I have in the next few months. Our rate is $1 per word. Some context on what I’m looking for are below.

Our section is (mostly) not a space for straightforward reviews or pieces pegged to specific news events. Broadly, we want to offer a unique perspective on emerging product categories or highlight novelties in existing ones.

Two recent illustrative examples:

• Brigid Mander on people ditching their cars for e-bikes
• Sal Vaglica on over-designed and extremely pricey coolers: https://www.wsj.com/articles/e-bike-review-can-you-actually-ditch-your-car-for-an-e-bike-11663702735

We also regularly publish stories in a few rubrics. One worth pitching to is “That’s Debatable,” where one neutrally presents two sides of a buzzy argument. See Chris Castano on Grammarly and Janine Annett on smart bathroom scales: https://www.wsj.com/articles/can-grammarly-make-you-better-writer-11656431727

Finally, Off Duty isn’t an e-commerce vertical (no deal posts!) but I still love market roundups, provided they have a strong hook. See Bijan Stephen’s list of non-played out board games and Sami Reiss’s $10,000 shopping trip: https://www.wsj.com/articles/best-new-board-games-review-11663710554

If any of this sparks something within you, please shoot me an email. I’m daniel.varghese@wsj.com. And if you already have one out to me, please do not hesitate to bump it for a response. I’ll try to give you one asap.

No deadline.

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

• Submissions: daniel.varghese@wsj.com
• Website: https://www.wsj.com/

TO HELP YOU CRAFT YOUR PITCH:

• Learn more about the publication: The Wall Street Journal is known for its award-winning business journalism and unrivaled coverage of global markets, politics, world news, tech, arts and life. More information here.
• Read through a selection of recent gear/gadgets-related stories/articles on its website.
• 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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