Pitches wanted (trade, culture, media, the digital world, inequality, politics) (worldwide) | 40 cents per word

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: THE CORRESPONDENT 

Please share this link off to a pitch form. Rates included.

GET YOUR WORK PUBLISHED BY THE CORRESPONDENT

Have an idea for a story or a series that’s perfect for a journalism platform focused on constructive, in-depth reporting?

THEMES WE'RE ESPECIALLY INTERESTED IN:

• money, trade and global financial systems
• work lives, workplaces and work practices
• culture, media, spirituality = all the sources of myth and meaning-making for humans, not necessarily all at the same time
• Biodiversity and stories about non-human life
• Migrations, land, borders and states / statehood
• The information frontier and the digital world
• Wealth and inequality
• Climate solutions, climate economy
• Modern lives and modern love
• Food and farming
• Waste—all the ways of interpreting that WHAT ARE OUR RATES?

Our lineage (rate per word) at The Correspondent is US$0.40. That means for 1,500 you’d get $600, and for 2,500 you’d get $1,000. If you are going to wildly surpass the agreed word count, best have a chat with the editor first!

For special projects, where a journalist works with us for up to three months, we pay a monthly wage. When we commission photography, illustration or other visual formats, we pay you for your time, rather than for the number of images used, so that is decided in conversation with Lise Straatsma.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

• Submissions: Via the webform
• Website: https://thecorrespondent.com

TO HELP YOU CRAFT YOUR PITCH:

• Learn more about the publication: The Correspondent is an online platform for unbreaking news, committed to collaborative, constructive, ad-free journalism. Every day, The Correspondent publishes stories that help its readers understand the world better. It aims to change what news is about, how it’s made and how it’s funded. More information here.
• Read through its selection of recent articles/stories, categorized into: Fixing the Future, Better Politics, Constructing a Cleaner World, Digital Citizenship, US elections, Migrations, Profiles, Climate
• 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.