✍️ TWJN 155 | Journo community aid, NBA, Billboard, Wirecutter, and more!

Happy Sunday to all you writers & creatives 👋

Skipping the preamble this week as I feel the following tweet pretty much sums up how it’s been going so far…

So, what do we have this week?

1️⃣ Resource: Journalism Community Aid

2️⃣ 8 calls to pitch

3️⃣ 14 writing jobs

Let’s get to it! ⬇️ ⬇️

1️⃣ Resource of the Week

Check out this awesome community aid network that was created in 2022 to help out journalists who’ve been laid off. They coordinate financial support, professional networking, job leads, childcare, insurance research help and other types of aid to some of the affected folks.

There’s specifically community aid set up by Emily Elena Dugdale for LA journalists who were recently laid off. You can request aid by filling out this form!

And bonus resource! Ellen Chang has set up a pizza fund for reporters who were laid off. Send her an email at [email protected] and she’ll send you a pizza or meal ❤️

2️⃣ Calls to Pitch

($350+) Slate | Jenny is always open to pitches for TV & culture for Slate. Read pitch guide here. Send pitches to [email protected]

($300+) Going | Katie will be reviewing pitches for their next batch of weekly Going Places newsletters. Pay starts at $300 for 1,400 - 1,600 words. Get your pitches in by Monday January 29. Look at this thread on X for more info. Submit pitches here

($200 - $300+) 100 Days in Appalachia | Rainesford is looking for pitches from teens to 24 year-olds who are interested in contributing opinion pieces, essays, reporting, or photography to 100 Days in Appalachia. Rates start at $200 for opinion, $300 for reporting, and increase based on scope of work. Email pitches to [email protected]

($150 - $400+) SF Gate | Grant is open to pitches from people who were laid off by Sports Illustrated. Even if you’re not looking to freelance of SF Gate, he’d love to Venmo buy you a drink. Check out this thread on X for example stories they’re looking for and who to send pitches to depending on topic.

($150 - $350) Briarpatch Magazine | Briarpatch is accepting pitches for their unthemed July/August issue. They’re looking for investigative journalism, interviews, feature articles, narrative reporting, project profiles, comics and graphic texts, book reviews, and photo essays that are rooted in anti-colonial, anti-capitalist, feminist struggle. Pitch deadline is March 1. Rate info and pitch guide here

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