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60+ pitching guides for Vox, NatGeo, Wired, Vulture, WaPo, Wirecutter, Slate, and more

Go forth and pitch!

Freelancing With Tim
Aug 31, 2022
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(Illustration by Matt Lubchansky)

Hello and welcome to Freelancing With Tim! This newsletter is a weekly resource for journalists full of tips, advice, and guidance about making it in the industry. It covers everything from writing the perfect pitch and building a freelance business to crafting a longform narrative feature and generating story ideas.

If you like what you’re reading, please consider a paid subscription. For $6/month or $60/year, you’ll get an extra newsletter every week, access to the full archive of Zoom panels and workshops, invites to subscriber-only events, early registration for Zoom workshops, 50% off every paid event, and so much more. Click here to see options for subscribing.

Now let’s get to the goods: all those excellent pitching guides. Good luck!

(Updated 1/19/23)

American Prospect

Artsy

Atlas Obscura

BBC Worklife

Bon Appetit

Brain Facts

Business Insider

Bustle

Chronicle of Higher Education

Columbia Journalism Review

Condé Nast Traveler

DAME Magazine

Defector

Discover

Earther, Gizmodo, io9 and 

Epicurious

Fast Company

The Financial Diet

FiveThirtyEight

Foreign Policy

Forge

Fortune

Freelancing With Tim

Good Housekeeping

The Guardian (Jessica Reed, Head of Narrative)

The Guardian’s Music Section

Hell Gate

Hidden Compass

High Country News

Laptop Mag

Lit Hub

Longreads

Catapult (first-person essays)

McSweeney’s

Mental Floss

The Muse

National Geographic

NPR, Code Switch

Outside

Pellicle

Polygon

Popular Mechanics

Popular Science

Psychology Today

Rest of World

Runner’s World

Sapiens

Science

Scientific American

Self

Slate

Smart Mouth

STAT

The Startup

Texas Highways

Texas Observer

This American Life

Undark

The Verge

Vice’s Motherboard

Vox

Vulture

The Washington Post, Inspired Life

The Washington Post, Launcher

Wine Enthusiast

Wirecutter

Wired

xoNecole

The Atlantic (General advice)

Deadspin (R.I.P., but it’s an excellent guide)

The Outline (also R.I.P., but another useful guide)

Oh, a few other things …

• I am happy to announce I am resuming one-on-one pitch reviews and coaching sessions! Schedule a time to go over a pitch, work on story development, talk about career development, get advice on building a successful freelance business, get edits on a story, or anything else you need help with. Book a timeslot on my Calendly here. 

• Friendly reminder to take 15 minutes right now and email that editor who has owed you money for an assignment for months. It works!

• For paid subscribers: There are very few concrete, unbreakable rules in pitching. However … I wrote about the only four mandatory components that need to be in every pitch, regardless of the story. Read them all here.

If you’re not yet a paid subscriber, click here to see options for subscribing to get access to past paid-only posts, including the full archive of recorded Zoom panels; a round up of what a bunch of publications pay freelance writers; the dos and don’ts of writing the perfect pitch; and much more. (Subscribers also get a 50% discount to every paid workshop!)

• Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram!

Okay bye ily!
-Tim ❤️

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