Search results for “the pitch” Showing 342 results 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 When I first saw Pop-Up Magazine in San Francisco a couple of years ago, I struggled to describe the experience to friends. What do you call a show where you… 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 Erika Hayasaki on how to leave the newsroom and kill it as a freelancer EDITOR’S NOTE: Erika Hayasaki’s conversation with Storyboard contributor Katia Savchuk explores what it took to earn a regular byline in magazines. She also shared the two separate pitches she wrote… August 21, 2018 At the Guardian’s Long Read, no rigid formula or geographic limits The editor's advice: Study what's been published before. Be authoritative, fresh and "arresting." Dare to send a (good) cold pitch June 5, 2018 Previous 1 … 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 35 Next
