Don't forget! Applications for our inaugural cohort of Community Reporting Grant Fellows are due on FRIDAY! Read more about this amazing opportunity for early-career journalists, and find out how to apply. And please consider spreading the word! https://www.ijnr.org/crp

$100 per piece. (We appreciate outlets who are up front about their rates.)

A microcosm of America in 2026: “Who killed the Florida orange?”

Masterful journalism & a must read by @alexsammon.bsky.social
“…private equity, Wall Street, the Great Recession, suburban sprawl, climate change, an addiction to Monsanto's glyphosate. All swallowed the mighty Florida Orange alive.”

“Our relationship with the working media … I don't think is as good anywhere in the country,” claimed LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell.

But journalists covering LA protests tell a different story.

Watch FPF’s @adamrose.bsky.social push back, calling out repeated mistreatment of the press.

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If you're in Atlanta for #ACES2026:

Freelancers Happy Hour is TONIGHT from 6–9 p.m. at the Westside Motor Lounge (7-min drive from hotel)

Hosted by @efafreelancers.bsky.social

You do not have to be registered for ACES or an EFA member to attend. Come and connect with fellow #editorial pros!

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Join the SPJ Ethics Committee for a free virtual panel discussion exploring how to distinguish reporters and ethical journalism from the growing mix of content creators, AI, activists and misinformation online.

🗓 April 28
🕖 7-8 p.m. EDT

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SiriusXM announces two new channels powered by ABC News April 20, 2026 - SiriusXM has inked a distribution agreement with the Walt Disney Company's ABC News for the distribution of two new channels on its streaming radio platform.

For the first time in nearly two decades, a channel from ABC News is being distributed by satellite radio company SiriusXM.

The channel, ABC News Live, is an audio simulcast of the TV channel of the same name.

XM previously offered ABC News & Talk from Citadel until 2007.

a man in a suit and tie is holding his head in pain Alt: a man in a suit and tie is holding his head in pain

Me, six weeks ago: Three deadlines in one day will be no problem! I'll just space out the reporting and writing and Bob's your uncle!

Me, at 4:15 p.m. today:

Burnout, Perfectionism, and Imposter Syndrome: Tools for Resilience and Well-Being Join our webinar to explore challenges like burnout and imposter syndrome, and gain strategies for resilience and balance in high-pressure environments.

UChicago’s #editing certificate program is hosting a webinar on "#Burnout, #Perfectionism, and #ImposterSyndrome: Tools for Resilience and Well-Being” on Tuesday, April 21 at 6 p.m. CT.

Free to attend! Register here: professional.uchicago.edu/events/burno... #edibuddies #amediting #freelanceeditor

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As of today, 1) we're open for pitches (guidelines to be updated soon) and 2) I'm open to tips. Especially interested in Pittsburgh arts, transit/infrastructure, social justice, and LGBTQ stories beginning in May. Hmu colin@pghcitypaper.com or DM.

Pitch Us - The Margin Read the pitch guidelines and submit your story idea on environmental and climate injustice today.

Are you interested in reporting on communities on the frontlines of environmental and climate injustice? Pitch us! 1/🧵

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We are now accepting pitches for Issue #4: China.

📣 Join SPJ and the SPJ New England for SkillsFest26! A free, two-day virtual program March 26–27 with hours of hands-on journalism training from top industry pros. 📰

✍️✅Registration is free and open to all.

🔗Learn more and sign up today!: bit.ly/470WC0i

CALL FOR PITCHES: I'm looking for ambitious features and and personal essays for Slate's Business & Tech section.

I’m interested in stories about the surprising ways tech and business are reshaping our lives, work, and culture. Strong characters, deep reporting, and big ideas always welcome. 🧵

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Open Call: 2026 Inge Morath Award — Magnum Foundation We are accepting applications for the Inge Morath Award, a $7,500 grant given to a woman or nonbinary photographer under the age of 30 to support the completion of a long-term documentary project. One...

Call for applications: 2026 Inge Morath Award, a grant given to a woman or nonbinary photographer under the age of 30 to support the completion of a long-term documentary project.

Submissions are due April 30, 2026

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Grammarly Is Offering ‘Expert’ AI Reviews From Your Favorite Authors—Dead or Alive The tool, offered by the recently-rebranded company Superhuman, gives feedback based on the work of famous dead and living writers—without their permission.

It's "pretty insulting to see scholarship used this way when the academic humanities are currently under attack from every possible angle—as though the actual people who do the thinking and produce the scholarship are reducible to their work itself and can be removed entirely from the equation."

Freelance information - Chicago Reader We are primarily staff-written, but we also run features, news, criticism, videos, and visual works that come from freelance contributors.

hello people of the internet. just an occasional reminder that i am an editor with a (very meager) budget to pay you to write stories for me. rates are generally $200-$500.

if you live in chicago and have an idea for a news story, pitch me!

full pitch guidelines on our website:

I just locked the April editorial calendar and I am still seeking pitches for May and June. I publish small business revenue stories.

For May: Seeking pitches related to parenthood and entrepreneurship. Deadline to pitch is March 31.

Contributor Guide How to pitch and how to write for Revenue Rulebreaker

Here's the pitch guide! Thank you so much

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‘The cover-up is brazen’: one journalist’s tenacious, traumatic fight to expose Ghislaine Maxwell Lucia Osborne-Crowley has endured threats and sexual harassment to report on Jeffrey Epstein’s chief enabler. Maxwell’s conviction was only the start of the quest for justice, she says

"‘The cover-up is brazen’: one journalist’s tenacious, traumatic fight to expose Ghislaine Maxwell.

Lucia Osborne-Crowley has endured threats & sexual harassment to report on Jeffrey Epstein’s chief enabler. Maxwell’s conviction was only the start of the quest for justice, she says."

CALLING ALL SCIENCE WRITERS! NEW PITCH OPPORTUNITY! I'll be leading a… | Rich Haridy | 15 comments CALLING ALL SCIENCE WRITERS! NEW PITCH OPPORTUNITY! I'll be leading a new science and health publication called Refractor. It's a spin-off from New Atlas with a new editorial approach. We'll be laun...

Pitch opportunity.

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Ampere: YouTube is dominant platform for video podcast viewing Younger viewers drive growth, with those ages 18 to 34 being 24 percent more likely to watch, and 60 percent of video viewers also listening to audio podcasts weekly.

Most people are watching video podcasts on YouTube, according to a new survey from Ampere Analysis — but TikTok is big for watching clips of podcasts, and some viewership is being funneled into YouTube accordingly.

Call for Pitches: Demographic Futures The next print edition of the Green European Journal will look at Europe’s new demographic reality. We are open to essays, photo essays, interviews, graphic journalism, and more.

📢 Send us your pitches!
Our next print edition will explore Europe’s new demographic reality.

We are looking for...
✍️ Essays and interviews
📷 Photo essays
🖌️ Comics and graphic journalism
📖 Fiction and creative nonfiction

⏰ Deadline: 24 March 2026
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The Pulitzer Center is doing this survey. I hope a lot of independent journalists will participate. pulitzercenter.tfaforms.net/5052169
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The New England First Amendment Coalition offers a series of 30-minute, free training webinars. Coming up March 19 is Copyediting 101, and April 10 is Consumer Reporting Skills 101. nefac.org/30minuteskil...

For $1/word, Science Friday wants enterprise stories that spark curiosity Robin Kazmier is senior digital editor for Science Friday, overseeing the digital operation for the beloved radio show that’s broadcast to more than 500 publ...

Robin Kazmier is senior digital editor for Science Friday, and she wants pitches that demonstrate how science helps us better understand the world we live in. On the Freelance Journalism Podcast, she shares key insights for freelancers looking to pitch: youtu.be/nupktV_EK5M

The mass market paperback is vanishing The mass market paperback — born in 1935, boomed after WWII — is vanishing from airports, drugstores, and groceries.

For those of you who were keeping up with the mass market mess, here is a more informative article.

Trade paperbacks cost only 30c more to make and are priced $18-20 now, where mass market paperbacks didn't sell at $12. So... there's your answer. It's about margins.

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