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✍️ TWJN Pro 151: Pitch Calls, Writing Opportunities, Media Jobs
The 19th, Serious Eats, Injustice Watch, The Examination ☃️ ✨📝 📬
Akhil Chauhan
December 23, 2025
Happy Tuesday to all you writers & creatives 👋
This issue has over 40 pitch calls, writing opportunities, and media jobs from The 19th, BBC, Dishoom, Serious Eats, Injustice Watch, Sportico, HuffPost, The Examination, Paula's Choice Skincare and tons more.
Just a heads up that the next newsletter will be coming to you next week! It will be pretty quiet out there for the rest of the week as editors and recruiters are taking a couple days off for Christmas. Hope you all have a lovely, joyful holiday week 🎄✨
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1️⃣ Calls to Pitch
($100 - $400) Next City | Next City is a nonprofit news organization that publishes reported solutions-oriented news stories and op-eds about urban policy, planning, housing, economic development, transportation and more. They focus on solutions that are already working on the ground, with an emphasis on equity, practical implementation, and local impact. Their coverage centers on how solutions affect marginalized populations in particular. Next City offers a small $100-$200 USD honorarium for published op-eds and a typical flat rate of $400 USD for reported news stories. See their pitch guide for more details. Send pitches to managing editor Aysha Khan at [email protected] with “Op-ed submission: [sample headline]” or “News pitch: [sample headline]” in the subject line.