Freelance Opportunities for Freelancers Like Me - Nov 8 Edition
BBC Travel
Eva Sandoval is Looking for SpeciaList city guides for ski season featuring timely notable SpeciaList (not a ski instructor or anyone in the hospitality industry). $600, eva.sandoval.freelance@bbc.com
[Deadline: November 8]
The Observer
Christa Terry, Arts Editor says Okay #writers, blow up my inbox artnews@observer,com. Looking for #arts pitches for Dec. publication and beyond. Artist features (no Q&As), thoughtful art market analysis/business of art, art philanthropy analysis (def. need more here). Rate: $250.
The Guardian
Sarah Farquharson @sjfarq: Hello there! @GuardianAus is looking for 800-word comment pieces that can run any time over the Summer months. If you have an idea you'd like to pitch, email cif.australia@theguardian.com before November 14 with SUMMER PITCH in the subject. We're keen on timeless first-person pieces that tell a good story, reflect on personal experience, explore an important social issue or make a persuasive argument. They can be funny, serious, sad, thoughtful, uplifting... Surprise us! ://www.theguardian.com/
The TODAY Show
Emal: TODAYEssays@nbcuni.com.
The Atlanta Community Press Collective
Atlanta Community Press Collective @atlanta_press: Big news! Atlanta Community Press Collective is hiring! We're seeking an Operations Director, (Interim) Managing Editor, and freelance writers to help us cover the stories that impact the safety and well-being of Atlantans. atlpresscollective.
PopSugar
Taylor Andrews, Editor of Balanced Life at PopSugar, is "looking to connect with a writer who is a widow or has lost a significant other. The article will be a personal essay and explore what it's like to date again following the loss of a partner. In the piece, we'd like the writer to touch on a few recent dating experiences and reflect on what the experience has been like dating as a widow (or as someone who has lost their significant other). For the article, we can compensate $250. The word count can be around 500-900 words, but I'm definitely flexible and happy to discuss that more later. The due date to reach out to me would be by Monday November 11.
Email Taylor at [taylor.andrews@voxmedia.com]
AFAR MAGAZINE
Afar Magazine's features editor, Katherine LaGrave, is looking for pitches on “quiet travel—think unplugging, recharging, and resetting.” Their “features and essays enrich, inform, educate, and spark conversation. As well as diving into unplumbed places and parts of the travel experience, Afar’s features and essays expand the definition of what makes a travel story.” The rates start at $0.50 per word for digital.
Send pitches to klagrave@afar.com by November 13.
NEW YORK TIMES' UPSHOT SECTION
The New York Times’s senior editor of The Upshot, Tom Giratikanon, is commissioning new contributors to create editions of Flashback, its weekly history quiz. Contributors would construct a quiz with nine clues, which are short descriptions of historical events that readers have to place on a timeline. Each clue is about 20 words long and includes sources for fact-checking. The rate is $800 per quiz.
Send inquiries to flashback-contributors@
BUSINESS INSIDER
Business Insider's deputy editor, Conz Preti, is looking for pitches of essays from “people who had kids in their 20s/30s and then decided to have just one more in their 40s because they thought it'd be easier. Whether it's because you were better off financially, the other kids were in school full time, it's what you always wanted, and more." The rate wasn't given, but has always been $250. See our Opps Finder listing for more info, and send pitches to cpreti@insider.com.
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