How to Pitch Gizmodo, io9, and Earther

We’re at all times completely happy to evaluation pitches from freelancers who wish to write formidable investigative and narrative options, reported mid-length items, and first-person essays. Expose one thing. Take us someplace. Tell us your unbelievable private story. Send us a very authentic take. Here’s the way to pitch us and what we’re searching for proper now for our expertise, tradition, client tech, io9, Earther, and science protection areas. This put up might be up to date as our wants change.

How to Email Your Pitch

Send your pitches to pitches@gizmodo.com or electronic mail me immediately at marina.galperina@gizmodo.com. (Often, you’ll be working with me and a desk editor.) Include an outline of your pitch, who you’re hoping to interview for the piece (if relevant), potential headline concepts, estimated turnaround, and hyperlinks to your beforehand printed work. If your story overlaps desks or is an outlier, ship it over anyway!

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We’d like to see pitches of experiential studies from extraordinary happenings, profiles of pioneers and radicals or highly effective conspiracists and artful conpeople, and fascinating tales from the historic depths and wild fringes of the web. Explore the intersection of tech, life, tradition, and subcultures. Previously:

Additionally, to go with our information protection, we’re searching for accessible overviews, detailed breakdowns, and deeper dives on our core protection areas—tech and labor, sweeping coverage modifications, company misdeeds, privateness and safety, and extra. We additionally need speculative items (like on the way forward for automation, AI, or quantum computing) in addition to extra hopeful, forward-looking, tech-done-well themes. Previously:

Consumer Technology

Aside from narrative and investigative options about client expertise, we’re presently searching for oral histories of notable devices. We’d like tales on product design, accessible expertise, and a few reporting on the worldwide chip crunch and its results on all the things. We settle for client tech critiques on a case by case foundation. Consider submitting an thought for considered one of our recurring collection: nostalgic essays on defunct tech and roundups of tech historical past’s best fails. Previously:

io9

We welcome extra oral histories—particularly on cult classics—in addition to options on the state of Hollywood and dealing in Hollywood from a number of sources; well-known and behind-the-scenes, usually and particularly with regard to range and inclusion points. io9 would really like considerate essays on style fiction from private views, in-depth reported options on any of our protection areas, and nuanced opinions on massive franchises. We usually are not searching for recaps, critiques of movies or tv episodes (until you have got non-film experience on the topic), most lists, or fiction (until we’re particularly asking for fiction submissions). Previously:

Earther

Earther is thinking about communities on the frontlines of the local weather disaster, in-depth reporting on Big Oil and different unhealthy actors, and the expertise that might assist (or hurt) the local weather. We’re searching for issues on the intersection of local weather and tradition and what it says about society and our relationship to local weather change. We’re additionally very thinking about expertise that impacts individuals’s every day lives and carbon footprints—warmth pumps, good thermostats, induction stoves—each in how they will handle emissions and the way they are often linked with higher governmental assist so everybody has entry. Previously:

Science

We’re searching for tales that showcase the world of science and well being from many angles, whether or not it’s a profile of a researcher obsessive about a vexing drawback, a nitty-gritty explainer on how a particle accelerator works, a story of sufferers combating to get the therapy they want, a photograph essay of a fossil excavation, or an investigation right into a pseudoscientific rip-off, to call just a few potentialities. We welcome pitches for each short- and long-form tales. Previously:

Invoicing and Payment

We’ll start the invoicing course of as quickly as you file your first draft. You might want to create a profile in our inner system. Once printed, you’ll bill by the system with a PDF bill. (We’ll information you thru.) Fees differ primarily based on undertaking scope. You might be issued fee inside 30 days of invoicing