20 Trade Magazines that Pay Freelance Writers

Contributed by S. Kalekar

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Trade publications are an often overlooked niche. Those listed here service a variety of industries and professionals: healthcare, senior care, general aviation and air logistics, automotive fleets, tea and coffee, restaurant owners and those in the food and beverage and hospitality businesses, beauticians, housing, mattress manufacturing, veterinarians, casual furnishings, in-plant graphics, and law. Pay rates are largely undisclosed, so writers will need to query about those.
1. Physicians News Network

Their publications cover issues for physicians, reporting on the business and technology of local healthcare delivery for the California medical community. They cover trends and local issues, and business news from around the state. Topics include state and national legislation, practice management, medical economics, public health, legal issues, technology and connected care, and continuing education. Their editorial contact details are here.

2. Healthcare Journal of New Orleans

They publish news and information for healthcare professionals. The magazine has features and departments, including Healthcare Briefs and Hospital Rounds. The journal is available free online. Their editorial contact details are here.

3. Senior Care Canada

This journal promotes excellence in senior care and facility management. Articles could be for their cover story, features, news or columns, which include The Lighter Side and Coming Events. They also welcome articles for their website. See their guidelines for details about various article lengths, lead times, deadlines for issues and style guide. Details here.

4. Veterinary Economics

This is a trade magazine for veterinarians that publishes articles about the business of client and patient care. They cover topics related to practice management, including personnel solutions, communication, practice finances, personal finances, day-to-day management issues, client relations and life balance. They also cover industry issues impacting the veterinary profession. They publish features and have several departments, and pay $50-350. Details here.

5. AOPA Pilot

This is a magazine for those in general aviation. Articles should be written in the third person and have enough detail to convey the message without overloading the reader. They seldom purchase articles of a historical nature. Payment is made on acceptance. Details here.

6. Air Cargo World

This is an air logistics magazine for shippers and others involved with the transport and delivery of perishables and manufactured goods. Its readership is logistics professionals, airline and airport executives, freight forwarders, importers, exporters, and others who manage or purchase transportation products and services in the airfreight supply chain. They publish data analysis, feature articles, and events and trends affecting their business and the airfreight logistics industry. Their editorial contact details are here.

7. Automotive Fleet

This is a publication for those who manage car and truck leasing. Their editorial contact details are here.

8. Fresh Cup Magazine

This is a magazine for specialty coffee and tea professionals. The readership is growers and processors in origin countries and shop owners, importers, tea blenders, coffee roasters, baristas, and other industry professionals. In print, they publish articles that introduce readers to people and places pushing coffee and tea forward. They have four blogs: Barista, The Whole Leaf, Roasters, and Café Basics. Posts look at focused topics, trends, places, and people in the coffee and tea industry. These blogs are the best starting point for new writers to break into Fresh Cup. Send queries for features (1,500-2,000 words), blogs (300-500 words), and cafe profiles (800 words). Details here.

9. Pizza Today

This magazine is for those in the pizza business. They publish industry-related features and departments. Their editorial contact details are here.

10. Restaurant Hospitality

They cater to independent restaurant operators across the US – from mom-and-pops with a single unit to multi-million-dollar companies with several unique restaurant brands. They publish articles about menu trends and ideas, new products, management solutions and culinary inventions. Their editorial contact details are here.

11. Hotels

This magazine publishes news and analysis for the global hotel industry. Topics include design, food & beverage, finance, development marketing and technology. Their editorial contact details are here.

12. Cheers Magazine

This is a business magazine for full-service restaurants and bars. It publishes trends and industry developments, ideas and best practices, from the latest beer, wine and spirit products news to bartending techniques to food pairings to staff training and customer service. The magazine is part of the Beverage Information Group; their editorial contact details are here.

13. Beverage Dynamics

This is a magazine for the off-premise beverage alcohol retailer – the owner of a single liquor store, the general manager of a warehouse store or the buyer for a large supermarket or drug chain. They publish information on spirits, wine, beer, other beverages and the ins and outs of modern beverage retailing. Articles are about trends affecting consumer demand, and the latest information on products and services. The magazine is part of the Beverage Information Group; their editorial contact details are here.

14. StateWays

StateWays publishes articles about issues affecting the Control State System. They publish profiles of state agencies and commissioners, market reports on the largest wine and spirits categories and features about retailing trends. Articles reflect all aspects of the control state mission: fiscal performance, promotion of responsible consumption, enforcement, pricing and other important issues including privatization, retail sales and warehouse innovations. The magazine is part of the Beverage Information Group; their editorial contact details are here.

15. Inside Housing

This is a weekly magazine for housing professionals in the UK, and they publish news, features and analysis. Details on pitching for features are here, and for pitching comment pieces are here.

16. Casual Living

This is a publication for casual furnishings and related businesses. Clients include casual furniture specialty stores, furniture stores, garden centres, mass merchandisers, catalogue companies, interior designers, and more. Their editorial contact details are here.

17. BedTimes

This monthly journal focuses on news, trends and issues of interest to mattress manufacturers and their suppliers, and more general business stories. Freelancers can pitch to these departments: Plant Management, Marketing Report, Regulatory Update, Management Issues, Cost Management and Employee Relations, and Sustainability Report. They especially want stories that show mattress manufacturers ways to reduce costs and operate more efficiently. Details here.

18. In-Plant Graphics

They publish articles about the graphics arts industry, specifically, about in-plant graphics. They have an editorial calendar, and prefer pitches. Articles cover successful in-plants, new graphic arts technologies and other prepress, printing, bindery and mailing issues. Features are 800-1,500 words; they also have various columns. Their guidelines say they do not pay for all articles, so writers will need to enquire. Details here.


19. ASCP Skin Deep Magazine

This bimonthly magazine is for estheticians. They publish trends, techniques, products, and industry news. Features are 800-1200 words. Details here.

20. ABA Journal

This monthly journal of the American Bar Association considers queries from professional writers and freelance journalists for topics of interest to law professionals. Details here.

The Association has several other periodicals that writers can pitch to – see here.

 

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