Pitches wanted (global news, features, scoopy stories) (worldwide) | 50 cents per word

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: INSIDER 

Edith Honan, Editor (Global News) of Insider, is looking for pitches:

I edit Insider's Global News Correspondents and I'm looking for scoopy, ambitious stories + original, surprising features reported from the ground. Some recent examples:

• Profiles are great format because you can approach an important topic on relatable, real-world terms. Jamie Roth's story about the Covid home confinement experiment zeroed in on the experience of one family: https://www.businessinsider.com/do-these-4000-federal-inmates-belong-behind-bars-2021-8
• One of my favorite stories of the year was Talia Lavin's gorgeous, funny essay on the coming "blob girl summer": https://www.businessinsider.com/get-ready-for-blob-girl-summer-2021-4
• From Afghanistan, Ali Latifi gave us a series of stories that showed a side of his country that many of us were oblivious to. Here, he profiled two Afghan influencers: https://www.businessinsider.com/meet-afghanistans-fearless-gen-z-influencers-2021-3
• Life has been hell for flight attendants, which Gabrielle Paluch explained beautifully in this story (the #1 story on our site the weekend it ran): https://www.businessinsider.com/eye-poking-flight-attendants-and-eye-popping-fines-for-airplane-mayhem-2021-7
• When Newsmax's Greg Kelly shot to prominence around the election and its aftermath, lots of New Yorkers wondered, "Is that Ray Kelly's son, the Good Day NY guy?" Aaron Short gave us this revealing profile: https://www.insider.com/newsmax-anchor-greg-kelly-defends-trump-but-who-is-he-2021-1
• From the UK, Chris Stokel-Walker has written several excellent stories about Internet culture, including this one about how popular memes were doing the Taliban's PR: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-viral-memes-did-the-talibans-bidding-by-helping-them-rebrand-2021-8
• A dry but hugely important topic like whether you can discharge student debt in bankruptcy was brought to life by Cezary Podkul in his profile of a lawyer who has launched a crusade to change the way judges handle these cases: https://www.businessinsider.com/the-lawyer-who-became-don-quixote-of-canceling-student-debt-2021-5
• I wanted to work with photographer Diana Alhindawi and when the Nyiragongo volcano erupted in eastern Congo (where she's worked for a decade) she kindly agreed to try her hat at writing and filed two extraordinary stories: https://www.businessinsider.com/a-volcano-erupted-in-eastern-congo-2021-5
• We needed an eye-opening story about why the evictions crisis was what it was and Abigail Higgins delivered this fascinating story that everyone should read: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-corporate-landlords-helped-drive-the-covid-evictions-crisis-2021-3
• One of my favorite stores about sports came from Dvora Meyers—Why DON'T male gymnasts get to do gorgeous, balletic leaps? https://www.businessinsider.com/why-dont-men-do-leaps-2021-8

Please send pitches to me at Ehonan@insider.com and include "Pitch" in the subject line. Pay starts at $.50/word for News and (based on time) significantly more for original, ambitious features. Everything I've published can be found here: https://www.businessinsider.com/category/news-freelancer

CONTACT INFORMATION:

• 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.
• Check out our collection of pitch excerpts on this page and find more sample pitches at The Open Notebook Database and at SuccessfulPitches.com.