Media outlets that publish science stories, mainly U.S., Australia, Canada, English-language; some Latin America
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
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OUTLETS:
PRIMARY LIST
‘THE USUAL SUSPECTS’
ENVIRONMENTAL OUTLETS SUB-LIST
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE SUB-LIST
NOT-SCIENCE OUTLETS
INVESTIGATIVE SUB-LIST
KIDS SUB-LIST
OPINIONS, FIRST-PERSON ESSAYS
BUSINESS ISSUES:
CONTRACTS AND CLAUSES
FACT-CHECKING PERFORMED BY OUTLET
PAY AT LEAST US$1/WORD
PAY LESS THAN US$1/WORD
PAY $0, EDIT
PITCH, PAY, FREELANCING RESOURCES
TRAFFIC ESTIMATES OF MANY MEDIA SITES (separate document)
TOOLS:
PHONE-CALL RECORDING APPS, TECHNOLOGIES
PRESS RELEASE AGGREGATORS/DISTRIBUTORS
SOURCE-FINDING RESOURCES
SPJ RACE AND GENDER HOTLINE
CAREER DEVELOPMENT:
AWARDS CALENDARS
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
UNIVERSITIES WITH SCIENCE/HEALTH JOURNALISM TRAINING (separate document)
WRITING AND TRAINING WORKSHOPS
Primary List - Publications/outlets to pitch:
[Here are some tips for finding email addresses. If you still can’t find an email address, contact me. Pitch guidelines are hotlinked to some publication names or see contact field.]
AARP - Margaret Guroff
Adweek - Rose Pastore
Aeon - Pam Weintraub, experts’ pitches, [email protected]
Air & Space Magazine (Smithsonian Institution): Tony Reichhardt, [email protected]
Airline magazines - Alaska Beyond Magazine (canceled April and May 2020 editions); American Way; Hemispheres (United); Open Skies (Emirates) (freelance freeze), Sky (Delta) - reportedly closed 4/10/20; Southwest Airlines; Spirit
Al Jazeera - Laurin-Whitney Gottbrath, [email protected]; Amira Abujbara
All about Space magazine (Future US)
American Indian magazine - Anne Bolen
American Scientist - Corey Powell, Katie Burke, Fenella Saunders
Animal Político
Anthropocene (non-profit)
Amer. Psychol. Assn. (APA) Monitor - Sara Martin
Apartment Therapy - Megan Baker
Archaeology - Eric Powell, Claudia Valentino, [email protected]
Architectural Digest
Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting
Ars Technica - John Timmer, [email protected]
Associated Press (AP) - Alicia Chang, [email protected] (seeks mainly video, photo, overseas stringers)
Astronomy - [email protected]
Atavist - Seyward Darby
Atlas Obscura - offbeat, obscure, curious places, things to explore; Sommer Mathis, Samir Patel, [email protected]
Audubon - Hannah Waters; Andrew Del-Colle, [email protected]; Jenny Bogo, [email protected], Andy McGlaushen - conservation policy
Australian Geographic
AXIOS - Miriam Kramer, [email protected]; Allison Snyder, [email protected]
Backpacker
Bats magazine - Kristen Pope
BBC online
BBC Capital (workplace-related research, psychology, economics)
BBC Focus magazine
BBC Future - Amanda Ruggeri
BBC Travel - Ellie Cobb
Bay Nature - Moises Velasquez-Manoff
Bicycling
BioGraphic - Steven Bedard
Bitch Media - Dispatches section seeks place-based pieces on culture, media, tech, queer discourse
Bloomberg - Drew Armstrong, health desk
Boston Globe - Ideas section, Brian Bergstein
Brainfacts - Lisa Chiu
British Medical Journal
Business Insider - [email protected], Rebecca Harrington, Dana Varinsky, Ariel Schwartz
BuzzFeed News - science: Azeen Ghorayshi (but no freelance)
California Sunday - Kit Rachlis, Joy Shan - closing (10/7/20)
Canadian Geographic
Cancer Today - Marci Landsmann; Kate Yandell, [email protected] - web
Cancer Therapy Advisor - Randi Hernandez, [email protected]
CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp, national public broadcaster)
Capital and Main - income inequality, climate change, green economy, housing, health care, public education, immigration, race, criminal justice
Chemical & Engineering News - Corinna Wu (news), Jessica Marshall (news), Jyllian Kemsley (policy)
Chemistry World (UK) - Patrick Walter
Chicago Tribune
Christian Science Monitor - Noelle Swan
Chronicle of Higher Education - Max Alvarez
Circle of Blue (water) - Laura Herd
Citylab - David Dudley
Civil Eats (non-profit) - Matt Wheeland, [email protected]
Climbing - Kevin Corrigan
Clinical Omics
CNN
CNN Travel
Cognitive Times
Columbia Journalism Review - meta-coverage
¿Cómo ves? (Mexico) - Estrella Burgos
Consumer Reports - Lauren Friedman, Diane Umansky
Cook’s Science - Molly Birnbaum
Cosmopolitan -
Cosmos (Australia) - Andrew Masterson, [email protected]
Crosscut (non-profit) (Pacific NW, Washington state, Seattle)
Curve
DSMObserver (deep-sea mining science and env) - Andrew Thaler, [email protected]
Daily Beast - science editor Katie Baker
Dazed - Anna Cafolla
Deutsche Welle Global Ideas (Germany; DW.com) sci-tech, environment pitches, both English and German, for online, video, radio, TV
Discover - Becky Lang, Eric Betz, Gemma Tarlach, Anna Funk, Alex Orlando (first initial last name [at] discovermagazine.com; [email protected] is checked daily)
Documented NY (immigration, immigrants, policy)
DoubleBlind magazine (psychedelics)
Earth magazine (now part of Nautilus - I’ve heard of payment problems)
Earth Island Journal
Earther (enviro news, part of G/O Media) - Brian Kahn, [email protected]
Eaten Magazine - [email protected]
Eater (Vox Media) - Erin DeJesus
Eating Well - Carolyn Malcoun
Economist - Alok Jha, [email protected]
El Clarín (Argentina)
El Comercio (Perú) - not sure if they accept freelance pitches
El Espectador (Colombia) - Pablo Correa
El Mercurio (Chile) - not sure if they accept freelance pitches
El Tiempo (Colombia)
Elephant magazine - intersection of visual culture with gender, mental health, education, sexuality, money, internet
Ensia (non-profit; “environmental solutions in action”) - Mary Hoff, David Doody
Environmental Health News - Brian Bienkowski
Eos (AGU pub) - Caryl-Sue Micalizio, [email protected]
Epicurious
Experience magazine
Experience Life
Fast Company
Fatherly - Tyghe Trimble, [email protected]
Field & Stream - Colin Kearns, [email protected]
Filter - advocacy journalism on drug use, policy, [email protected]
FiveThirtyEight - Chad Matlin, [email protected], Anna Rothschild
Fodor’s - in-depth reported pieces and first-person narratives on coronavirus
Folha de Sao Paulo (Brazil) - not sure if they accept freelance pitches
Food52
Food Dive (and all the Dive sites - BioPharma Dive, Construction Dive, Education Dive, Healthcare Dive, MedTech Dive, Restaurant Dive, Smart Cities Dive, Social Media Today, Utility Dive, Waste Dive)
Food and Environment Reporting Network (FERN) (non-profit)
Food & Wine - profiles, narrative essays, trends, Oset Babur, front of book; Margaret Eby, EIC
Food Unfolded (EU)
Forbes - no pitches but associate editor is Alex Knapp - [email protected]
Fusion
Futurism - no freelance for now
Geekwire (tech)
GEN (Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News) - John Sterling, [email protected]
Geographical (UK)
Genome
Gimlet, Science Vs. - Kaitlyn Sawrey, Wendy Zuckerman
Gizmodo (G/O Media) - try Shoshana Wodinsky, [email protected]
Gizmodo UK
Go magazine
Gothamist (NYC news, culture, food, events; part of NY Public Radio)
Great Lakes Now - environmental + science stories relating to Great Lakes, Natasha Blakely, [email protected]
Green Matters
GreenBiz - Heather Clancy, Deonna Anderson
Grist (non-profit) - Darby Minow Smith, Naveena Sadasivam
Guernica
Hakai (coastal/marine/eco) - Colin Schultz, Adrienne Mason, pitches: [email protected]
Harper’s magazine
Health Affairs - Chris Fleming
Healthline - Crystal Hoshaw
High Country News (non-profit) - Kate Schimel, Maya Kapoor
Houstonian - Dianna Wray
IEEE Spectrum - Glenn Zorpette, [email protected]; Amy Nordrum
Innovation and Tech Today - [email protected] Also publishes @cannatechtoday @ResTechToday and @Sustain_Today - “we love anything STEM or sustainability related”
InsideClimate News (non-profit) - Stacy Morford, David Sassoon
Inside Higher Education - Marjorie Valbrun
Inside Science News Service - Chris Gorski, [email protected]
International Journalists Network (IJNET)
Inverse (Bustle Digital Group) - Claire Cameron, [email protected] (science); Sarah Sloat, [email protected] (mind/body); Nick Lucchesi, [email protected] (general)
Io9 (sci fi, futurism, science, tech; G/O Media)
It’s Freezing in LA (environmental tensions, climate) - [email protected]
Jalopnik (vehicles; G/O Media)
Jezebel (sex, celebs, fashion - for women; G/O Media)
JSTOR Daily - Benjamin Winterhalter
Kaiser Family Foundation
Kaiser Health News - Kathleen Hayden
Knowable - Rosie Mestel
KCET-TV (PBS station in Southern Calif.) - Carren Jao
KQED radio - Danielle Venton, Jon Brooks
La Nación (Argentina)
La Nación (Costa Rica)
Labtech.eu (Europe biotech, mainly B2B) - Helen Albert, [email protected]
LadyScience (history and pop culture of science) - Leila McNeill
Lapham’s Quarterly
Last Word on Nothing
Lateral - science and society
Leafly - marijuana beat, but no freelance now, layoffs
Leaps (scientific innovation, ethics future of society) - Kira Peikoff
Lifehacker (part of G/O Media) - Beth Skwarecki
Livable Future blog, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
LiveScience (Future US) - Jeanna Bryner, T