✍️ 130 paid pitch calls & freelance writing opportunities
Review more than 180 new paid opportunities shared since Monday!
Welcome to the latest FWN newsletter, with 130 pitch calls, freelance & contract writing opportunities!
We've packed this week's edition with quality leads to help you pitch smarter, earn more, and keep your editorial calendar full.
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Among today’s new paid writing opportunities…
Pitch calls are open across journalism, investigations, agriculture, food, science, books, culture, and entrepreneurship, with a strong focus on laid-off journalists, reported features, first-person essays, and global stories. Pay up to $1/word.
Journalism and reporting roles include lifestyle and culture coverage, sports writing, financial and lending journalism, and contract staff roles across digital publications. Pay up to staff-equivalent rates.
Copywriting opportunities span SEO, UX, fundraising, brand, fashion, education, and B2B work, including agency, in-house, and project-based roles. Pay up to $100/hour.
Content and freelance writing roles cover energy, B2B marketing, resumes, and specialist content production for agencies and platforms. Pay up to $38/hour.
Thursday 5th February
🆕 Pitch Calls
For laid off journalists…
Various editors have shared in the last 48 hours that they are open to pitches from laid off journalists at the Washington Post (and, in future, presumably other freelance writers as well).
Bloomberg Ideas & Culture wants to hear from laid off journos.
Rachel is accepting pitches for Men’s Health Mag.
Katherine wants op-eds for the Voices section of The Incercept.
Question Everything is taking pitches for stories about the state of journalism, attacks on the press, our information ecosystem, and accountability for big tech.
Court Watch is always open to freelance stories involving the federal courts.
Benjy at Vox Media wants to hear from laid off WP staff.
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