Pitches wanted (child care) | $500 to $1,000 per article

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: BETTER LIFE LAB

Rebecca Gale, Fellow at Better Life Lab, is looking for pitches:

CALL FOR PITCHES: The Better Life Lab is seeking pitches from journalists / artists looking to tell more of the child care story. We pay for stories and will help with placement. Details below and we encourage you to apply!

BETTER LIFE LAB'S CHILD CARE INNOVATION REPORTING GRANTS

Seeking reporter and graphics pitches for new reported series

The Better Life Lab is commissioning a series of reported, data and character-driven written, video and/or graphic stories and illustrations that highlight innovations within the child care field. We will help pitch the stories to a wide variety of media outlets to reach broad audiences. Specifically, we are interested in uncovering examples of ways in which local governments, organizations, movements and others are attempting to improve our current broken, patchwork child care system to increase families' access to affordable, quality care and improve wages, benefits and working conditions for the care workforce. This can include anything from nontraditional care systems, family, community and neighborhood efforts, to improvements in day-to-day activities to local and state governmental changes in funding, subsidies and regulations.

We are also keenly aware that creating a truly equitable universal child care system will require robust public investment. So we would ask that these stories also highlight the advantages as well as the shortcomings of such innovations, with the goal of better understanding what is needed to create a better child care system that meets the needs of all families. As Congress continues to contemplate more funding for child care and early education, such stories will help draw attention to what works, what can scale, and what falls short.

The Better Life Lab will pay reporters and writers and work with you to place the story in an ideal publication. Please send pitches to Rebecca Gale at gale@newamerica.org or Brigid Schulte at schulte@newamerica.org. Pitches will be considered and stories commissioned on a rolling basis through spring of 2023, with a payment of between $500 to $1000 per piece.

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

• Submissions: Rebecca Gale at gale@newamerica.org or Brigid Schulte at schulte@newamerica.org
• Website: https://www.newamerica.org/better-life-lab/

TO HELP YOU CRAFT YOUR PITCH:

• Learn more about the publication: The Better Life Lab works in solidarity with the movement for work-family justice to elevate the value of care, advance intersectional gender equity, and transform policy, practice and culture so people and families can thrive. It aims to provide original research and reporting that reframes outdated narratives around work and family. More information here.
• Read through a selection of recent articles/stories 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 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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