Search results for “the pitch” Showing 344 results A go-to list of how-to story craft posts from 2020 One the best things about writing, or any storytelling, as a career is also one of the worst: You’re never as good as you can get. Sourcing, research, interviewing, story… December 23, 2020 What challenged Andrea Pitzer to write what she calls her best work ever When she set out from Russian port of Murmansk on a 60-foot sailboat headed to Novaya Zemlya in August 2019, journalist Andrea Pitzer had few expectations. She hoped to visit… September 10, 2020 A war correspondent and mom faces new fears in the early days of coronavirus Coronavirus is no longer something happening somewhere else — no matter where you are — or something that will soon become yesterday’s news. As of this week, cases have been… March 17, 2020 Gratitude Notes (#16): “The answer is within you” Editor’s note: This month, we bring you brief reminders from pros around the world about what or who helped them forward in their careers.I’m grateful for a hypnotherapist in my… December 17, 2019 “Truth is whatever you can get enough people to believe.” You can’t turn around in the U.S. these days without bumping into a cry of “Fake News!” or a news story decrying the same. Not that spin is a modern… July 5, 2019 Learning from what seem the unkindest cuts There were two things I knew: I wanted to write a story about how heartburn can kill you, as it did my father, and I wanted to write for Undark,… April 24, 2019 Wired’s executive editor seeks stories that reveal all faces of technology Rejections aren't personal: “70 percent of why pitches don't work has nothing to do with the writer” March 5, 2019 How to crack the code of live storytelling with Pop-Up Magazine "Ephemeral" true stories that inform, surprise and delight December 18, 2018 Finding a narrative in “our most urgent national conversation”: the one about guns There are known news conventions: something happens and someone writes about it and somebody publishes it and then maybe people talk about it. There are known narrative conventions: a relatable… October 23, 2018 Erika Hayasaki on the reality of landing a big freelance story In the second of a two-parter, the former LA Times reporter scrutinizes the first pitch – and then the revision – that earned her a cover piece in Wired August 28, 2018 Previous 1 … 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 35 Next
