Pitches wanted (features, global news) (worldwide) | $1+ per word

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: INSIDER 

Edith Honan, Features & Global News Correspondents Editor of Insider, is looking for pitches:

A quick list of some terrific longread features from my team at Insider. Freelance writers and photographers: if you have a great story to pitch, I want to hear from you.

• In May 1985, a US border agent in remote SW Texas briefly detained a man who would go on to be one of the most powerful figures in Mexico's drug trade. Noah Hurowitz revisited that fateful night and the saga's surprising second chapter: https://www.businessinsider.com/the-night-the-lord-of-the-skies-got-away-2022-7
• This story builds on Noah Hurowitz's reporting from last year (when a whitewashed version of Amado Carrillo Fuentes was featured in season 3 of Narcos Mexico): https://www.businessinsider.com/the-curious-afterlife-of-the-lord-of-the-skies-2021-11
• A riveting story, reconstructing the terrifying ordeal when climbers went way too confidently into one of the world's most extreme environments. A masterclass in tenacious, thorough reporting by Kelsey Vlamis: https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-a-fall-from-denali-north-americas-tallest-peak-2022-7
• When Insider legal reporter Jacob Shamsian spotted his name in two of Anna Sorokin's art pieces, he wondered if he had unwittingly become part of a scam: https://www.insider.com/anna-delvey-sorokin-art-show-2022-7
• After war reenactors returned to Gettysburg this month, Alan Chin gave us this thoughtful photo essay: https://www.businessinsider.com/history-buffs-gun-enthusiasts-return-to-gettysburg-2022-7
• "The 13-year-old Estonian boy was coordinating his international neo-Nazi campaign from his parents' house on an island in the Baltic Sea." —that's just a taste from Nick Robins Early's investigation into an international network of teenage neo-Nazi extremists: https://www.insider.com/international-teenage-neo-nazi-network-feuerkrieg-totenwaffen-accelerationism-2022-7
• And in case you missed it from a few months ago, Aaron Short's deep dive into the early life of Tucker Carlson: https://www.businessinsider.com/the-tucker-carlson-origin-story-2022-5
• And, with help from photographer Ted Soqui, Aaron Short's look at Tucker Carlson's artist mom, her exit from Tucker's life when he was a boy, and her campy fruit and vegetable inspired art: https://www.businessinsider.com/meet-tucker-carlsons-mother-the-artist-lisa-mcnear-lombardi-2022-5
• When President Zelensky asked foreign fighters to come to Ukraine, Katie Livingstone gave us this deep look at a few of the volunteer soldiers who showed up: https://www.businessinsider.com/they-went-to-ukraine-to-be-war-heroes-and-fight-russians-2022-4

I work with Insider staff, freelance writers and photographers. I'm always looking for fascinating, unexpected, gorgeously reported/written/photographed stories from your patch of the US or the world. Pay for features starts at $1/word. $500+ for photo essays.

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

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

TO HELP YOU CRAFT YOUR PITCH:

• Learn more about the publication: Insider Inc. is a global news and lifestyle publication that aims to inform and inspire the digital generation. It covers what passionate people actually want to know—from news to food, celebrity to science, politics to sports. More information here.
• Read through a selection of recent global features 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 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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