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Grammarly Is Offering ‘Expert’ AI Reviews From Your Favorite Authors—Dead or Alive The tool, offered by the recently-rebranded company Superhuman, gives feedback based on the work of famous dead and living writers—without their permission.

It's "pretty insulting to see scholarship used this way when the academic humanities are currently under attack from every possible angle—as though the actual people who do the thinking and produce the scholarship are reducible to their work itself and can be removed entirely from the equation."

Freelance information - Chicago Reader We are primarily staff-written, but we also run features, news, criticism, videos, and visual works that come from freelance contributors.

hello people of the internet. just an occasional reminder that i am an editor with a (very meager) budget to pay you to write stories for me. rates are generally $200-$500.

if you live in chicago and have an idea for a news story, pitch me!

full pitch guidelines on our website:

I just locked the April editorial calendar and I am still seeking pitches for May and June. I publish small business revenue stories.

For May: Seeking pitches related to parenthood and entrepreneurship. Deadline to pitch is March 31.

Contributor Guide How to pitch and how to write for Revenue Rulebreaker

Here's the pitch guide! Thank you so much

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‘The cover-up is brazen’: one journalist’s tenacious, traumatic fight to expose Ghislaine Maxwell Lucia Osborne-Crowley has endured threats and sexual harassment to report on Jeffrey Epstein’s chief enabler. Maxwell’s conviction was only the start of the quest for justice, she says

"‘The cover-up is brazen’: one journalist’s tenacious, traumatic fight to expose Ghislaine Maxwell.

Lucia Osborne-Crowley has endured threats & sexual harassment to report on Jeffrey Epstein’s chief enabler. Maxwell’s conviction was only the start of the quest for justice, she says."

CALLING ALL SCIENCE WRITERS! NEW PITCH OPPORTUNITY! I'll be leading a… | Rich Haridy | 15 comments CALLING ALL SCIENCE WRITERS! NEW PITCH OPPORTUNITY! I'll be leading a new science and health publication called Refractor. It's a spin-off from New Atlas with a new editorial approach. We'll be laun...

Pitch opportunity.

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Ampere: YouTube is dominant platform for video podcast viewing Younger viewers drive growth, with those ages 18 to 34 being 24 percent more likely to watch, and 60 percent of video viewers also listening to audio podcasts weekly.

Most people are watching video podcasts on YouTube, according to a new survey from Ampere Analysis — but TikTok is big for watching clips of podcasts, and some viewership is being funneled into YouTube accordingly.

Call for Pitches: Demographic Futures The next print edition of the Green European Journal will look at Europe’s new demographic reality. We are open to essays, photo essays, interviews, graphic journalism, and more.

📢 Send us your pitches!
Our next print edition will explore Europe’s new demographic reality.

We are looking for...
✍️ Essays and interviews
📷 Photo essays
🖌️ Comics and graphic journalism
📖 Fiction and creative nonfiction

⏰ Deadline: 24 March 2026
Learn more👇

The Pulitzer Center is doing this survey. I hope a lot of independent journalists will participate. pulitzercenter.tfaforms.net/5052169
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The New England First Amendment Coalition offers a series of 30-minute, free training webinars. Coming up March 19 is Copyediting 101, and April 10 is Consumer Reporting Skills 101. nefac.org/30minuteskil...

Robin Kazmier is senior digital editor for Science Friday, overseeing the digital operation for the beloved radio show that’s broadcast to more than 500 publ... For $1/word, Science Friday wants enterprise stories that spark curiosity

Robin Kazmier is senior digital editor for Science Friday, and she wants pitches that demonstrate how science helps us better understand the world we live in. On the Freelance Journalism Podcast, she shares key insights for freelancers looking to pitch: youtu.be/nupktV_EK5M

The mass market paperback is vanishing The mass market paperback — born in 1935, boomed after WWII — is vanishing from airports, drugstores, and groceries.

For those of you who were keeping up with the mass market mess, here is a more informative article.

Trade paperbacks cost only 30c more to make and are priced $18-20 now, where mass market paperbacks didn't sell at $12. So... there's your answer. It's about margins.

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Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years thehill.com/homenews/med...

Google expands tools to let users remove sensitive data about themselves from Search | TechCrunch Users will be able to more easily request the removal of results that include private information or non-consensual explicit imagery.

"Google expands tools to let users remove sensitive data about themselves from Search" techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...

If you were a journalist or creative that was laid off by the Washington Post and you want to work for an independent, pro democracy news outlet, Democracy Docket is hiring. bit.ly/45Qaw4K

Allrecipes Pitch Submission Form Allrecipes is seeking pitches for a Route 66 package focused on food, connection, and home-cook traditions along the route. We’re less interested in straight history and more interested in stories tha...

Allrecipes: Seeking pitches for a Route 66 package focused on food, connection, and home-cook traditions along the route. We’re less interested in straight history and more interested in stories that feel lived-in, welcoming, and grounded in real places and people. Use linked form. Deadline: Feb. 16

Write For Us Step 1: Subscribe to our newsletters The strongest pitches will demonstrate deep familiarity with Rewire News Groups‘s style, tone, and past coverage. Sign up for our newsletters here to dig into our ...

Pitch us! RNG is the only national U.S. newsroom exclusively dedicated to expert reporting on reproductive and sexual health, rights, and justice. For our first 2026 call-out, we especially seek timely, incisive story ideas from journalists covering disability justice, science, and parenthood.

For those looking for freelance work in the wake of WaPo layoffs: I'm an editor at large overseeing Ideas & Culture at Bloomberg, including our Books coverage. Find me at skillingswo2@bloomberg.net

Global Thought Archives

What cities around the world have really interesting, dynamic intellectual “scenes”? Want to tell the story/paint a portrait of such a “scene” — especially in the Global South — for @newlinesmag.bsky.social’s Global Thought series? Pitch me: dpostel@newlinesmag.com

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Please pitch us! - Bolts If you have a story pitch that would fit Bolts, we would love to hear from you.

Bolts is always looking to work with freelancers to report on critical voting rights and criminal justice stories across the United States.

If you have a story that you think would fit Bolts, here is how to pitch us:

You don’t need experience covering Long COVID to write for the Sick Times. Co-founders Miles Griffis and Betsy Ladyzhets are open to pitches from all kinds of reporters. Learn more on the Freelance Journalism Podcast: bit.ly/45Obhfa

Trauma-informed reporting 101 Health care journalists need to learn the proper reporting techniques before interviewing people who have experienced trauma.

"If all we do is back away from urgent, sensitive, important reporting or powerful images that communicate something important, that’s not being trauma-informed.”

Balloting closes tnight, Jan. 22, at midnight PST for the SPJ Freelance Community's 2026 Board of Directors. If you're a member and haven't voted yet, please do!

Don't forget to pay quarterly taxes today!

Corporation for Public Broadcasting votes itself out of existence The Corporation for Public Broadcasting's directors voted the organization out of business Monday. The private agency, which has distributed federal funding to PBS, NPR and hundreds of local televisio...

Corporation for Public Broadcasting votes itself out of existence 😢😢😢😢
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Why critics have a love-hate relationship with top 10 lists - Poynter Reducing a year of culture to a handful of honorees leads to agita — and, one hopes, appreciation

First piece of 2026!

For @poynterinstitute.bsky.social, I talked to a bunch of terrific critics—including @anniezaleski.bsky.social, @sepinwall.bsky.social, and @jasondashbailey.com—about the pains and pleasures of creating top 10 and EOY lists.

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Nominations for the Robinson Prize are now open! 

Each year, ACES honors an editor whose work supports our profession through strong editing, mentoring, and community building. 

Nominations close January 31.

Submit a nomination: https://aceseditors.org/awards/robinson-prize

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The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

YearCompass YearCompass | The booklet that helps close your year and plan the next one.

Doing something different this year. Spending today filling out the Year Compass booklet & it's surprisingly hard! Wisest decision I made this year? No idea! So lots of thinking today. It's a cool concept though. After this, I plan to write a letter to myself to read in a year. yearcompass.com