This page collects helpful resources on how to best pitch your writing to outlets. The aim is to provide guidance from people that have significant experience from receiving pitches and their views on what makes a pitch worth following up.
- Who Pays Writers?
by The Compensation Foundation and contributors is not so much a pitch guide as a tool for assessing how much outlets pay - Rates Database
by The Freelance Creative is similar to the above - How to successfully pitch The New York Times (or, well, anyone else) and 60+ pitching guides for Vox, NatGeo, Wired, BBC, WaPo, Wirecutter, Slate, and more
by Tim Herrera, Editor at the New York Times - Pitching (see subheader)
by the editors at Inverse - A Twitter thread about pitching
by Evette Dionne, Editor-in-Chief at Bitch Media - So You Want To Write For A Website: 5 Things You Should Do/Know (archived)
by Jonathan Barkan, former Editor-in-Chief at Dread Central, former Managing Editor at Bloody Disgusting, and more - Editorial Contacts and Resources on How to Pitch
by Rachel Charlene Lewis, former Senior Editor for Bitch Media, and more - What makes a good pitch? NPR editors weigh in
by Alison MacAdam, Senior Editorial Specialist at NPR - How to pitch The Outline
by the Outline staff, but highly useful as general advice