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- Vulture is an entertainment news website for the culturally obsessed. They cover TV, movies, comedy, music, theater, art, books, and more. They’re open to pitches for several of their sections. According to their editor’s post, rates generally start at $200, and they pay $150 to $300 for TV recaps. To learn more, read their pitch guide.
- Fine Books Magazine is a quarterly magazine about rare books, manuscripts, maps, fine art, and more. They’re 90% freelance written. They welcome proposals from freelance writers, and also assign them topics. Their features are generally 1,500 to 2,000 words long, and they buy about 8 of them a year. The digest section of the magazine contains shorter, newsier pieces of 500 to 700 words. Digest is divided into 3 categories: book, art, and object. They have mentioned negotiating rates with writers based on experience with the subject matter and the level of research. According to a now deleted post on X by their editor, they pay between $200 and $600 per piece. For more information, read their guidelines for writers.
- Final Gravity tells personal, human-centered stories about beer. They publish writing focused on people, places, ingredients, sensory experiences, cultural intersections, and the holistic ways we interact with and around beer. According to their pitch guide, their rates are about $0.15–$0.20 per word. For short pieces, they pay $125–$175; short features, $175–$250; longer features, $225–$300; and art features, $100. Poetry pays $50 per poem. If a writer is able to take their own quality photography for an article, they pay an extra $25.
- The Daily Beast is a news and opinion website dedicated to independent journalism. They focus on politics, power, and pop culture and reach over 1 million readers a day. They accept pitches for their Obsessed vertica, which is looking for reactions, explainers, interviews, reviews, and opinion pieces. According to their pitch guide, rates start at $250.
- Audubon publishes journalism, photography, and illustrations to “to celebrate the joy and wonder of birds and to inform its readers about the natural world, inspire them to care passionately about that world, and motivate them to take action on its behalf.” They`re interested in issues that affect birds through a much broader lens—whether that’s native and invasive species, land use, pesticides, climate change, racial and environmental justice, and many more topics. They prefer freelancers to write articles of 1,500 words to 4,000 words, with a preference for 3,000 words. According to their pitch guide, they pay $0.50 to $1.50 per word.
- Dirt is a newsletter about digital pop culture. They cover books, streaming, music, style, fashion, blockchain, and the internet. Their pieces are generally around 500 to 800 or 800 to 1,000 words. According to their pitch guide, standard rates begin at $0.50 per word, negotiable for reported pieces. Rates for Q&As are $0.30 per word. Send your pitches to editors@dirt.fyi. They are not always open to submissions; be sure to carefully check their guidelines before submitting.
- LatinaMedia.Co is a digital publication covering “TV, film, books, podcasts, and culture from Latina and femme Latinx perspectives.” They’re always seeking more voices to add to their community. According to their pitch guide, they pay $200 (up from $150) for 600+ word pieces.
- whynow is an online magazine and production studio that features stories from both emerging and established people in arts, music, and entertainment. They’re seeking features, interviews, stories, and reviews related to arts and culture. According to their pitch guide, they pay £50 to £120 for the majority of pieces. Reviews are at the £50 end of the scale for 350-word pieces. If interested, email your pitches to editors@whynow.co.uk.
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