💰45 Publications That Pay At Least $500/£500 Per Freelance Piece
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Hello folks and welcome to another edition of Freelance Friday, the home of freelance journalism.
This week we're featuring 45 publications in our database that pay $500/£500 or more per piece. There are dozens of types of pieces that these publications are looking for, including reported articles, personal essays, data insights and visualizations, photography, graphic design and many more...
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- Location: Salinas, CA
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- Salary: $60,000-$65,000
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- Salary: $45,000
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📬 💰 $500/£500+ Per Piece Pitch Calls
- 🌲 Acacia Pitch Call: News, Reported Essays, Short Fiction | Rate: $500-$700 | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 Aftermath Pitch Call: In-Depth Reporting and Analysis | Rate: $500 | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 Airbyte Pitch Call: Data Insights, Tutorials | Rate: $300-$500 | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 American Gardener Pitch Call: People or Plant Profiles, Plant Lore or Literature, Research and Deep Dives | Rate: $300-$700 | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 Audubon Pitch Call: Feature Packages | Rate: $2,500+ | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 Bolts Mag Pitch Call: Critical Voting Rights/Criminal Justice Stories | Rate: $800 | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 Brick Magazine Pitch Call: Creative/Literary Writing | Rate: $65-$720 | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 Cosmos Institute Pitch Call: Essays | Rate: $1,000 | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 DAME Magazine Pitches | Rate: $350-$750 | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 Good Beer Hunting Pitch Call: Features | Rate: $700 | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 Hidden Compass Pitch Call: Photo Features | Rate: $550-$1,000 | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 Just Go Grind Pitch Call | Rate: $250-$500 | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 Logic Mag Pitch Call: Essays and Short Stories, Features, Poems, Shorts, Visuals (Comics, Graphic Stories, Visual Essays) | Rate: $1,200-$4,000 | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 Longreads Pitch Call: Essays, Story Pitches, Reading List Ideas | Rate: $500+ | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 Motley Bloom Pitch Call: Long Form Pieces | Rate: $500 | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 Narrative Magazine Pitch Call: Manuscripts, Story of the Week | Rate: $250-$1,000 | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 National Wildlife Magazine Pitch Call: Photography | Rate: $50-$1,000 | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 New York Amsterdam News Pitch Call: Data Visualizations | Rate: $250-$500+ | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine Pitch Call: Long Form Thought Leadership, Reported Articles and Analysis | Rate: $300-$500 | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 Off Assignment Pitch Call: Essays | Rate: $500 | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 Oregon Humanities Pitch Call: Personal Essays and Features | Rate: $750-$1,500 | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 Outrider Pitch Call: Book Excerpts, Expert Analyses, Interviews, Investigative Articles | Rate: $1,000 | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 Parapraxis Pitch Call: Digital Pieces, Print Pieces | Rate: $500-$800 | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 Planetizen Pitch Call: Blog Posts, Book Reviews, Courses, Features, Newsfeed Stories | Rate: $500-$1,250 | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 Reboot US Pitch Call: Essays, Interviews | Rate: $500-$750 | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 SELF Pitch Call: Commerce, Fitness and Food, Health, Lifestyle | Rate: $450-$800 | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 SF Gazetteer Pitch Call: Business, Communities, Culture, Food, Immigration, Lifestyles | Rate: $400-$1,000 | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 Sight and Sound Pitch Call: Online Articles, Video Essays | Rate: £120-£500 | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 Sport Fishing Mag Pitch Call: Print Features | Rate: $750-$1,500 | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 The American Scholar Pitch Call: Print Magazine | Rate: $500 | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 The Assembly Pitch Call: Food, Long Form, Photographers | Rate: $1,000 | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 The Atavist Magazine Pitch Call | Rate: $6,000 | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 The Cut (New York Magazine) Pitch Call: Essays and Columns, Features | Rate: $500-$600 | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 The Drift Mag Pitch Call: Essays, Short Stories | Rate: $2,000 / $500-$1,000 | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 The Flytrap Pitch Call: Art | Rate: $600 | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 The Food Section Pitch Call: Food Writing | Rate: $1,058/story | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 The Green Parent Pitch Call: Long Form, Short Opinion | Rate: £75/1,000 words | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 The Guardian U.S. Pitch Call: Written Pieces, Photo Essays | Rate: $500+ | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 The Guardian UK Pitch Call: Crosswords | Rate: £44-£617 | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 The Narwhal Pitch Call: Photographers | Rate: $300-$600 | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 The Sick Times Pitch Call: Reported News Stories | Rate: $1,300 | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 The Sun Magazine Pitch Call: Photography | Rate: $200-$500 | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 The Walrus Pitch Call: Short Essays | Rate: $4,000 | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 VQR Pitch Call: Investigative Pieces, Nonfiction, Short Fiction | Rate: $200-$1000+ | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
- 🌲 Wirecutter Pitch Call: Challenging Reviews, New Reviews, Shorter Pieces | Rate: $500-$2,500 | Remote | Writer | Pitch here
That's all for this week. Thank you as always for reading and supporting. Have a great weekend and see you again next week!
