{"id":7669,"date":"2020-01-24T08:06:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T16:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/?p=7669"},"modified":"2020-01-24T08:06:26","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T16:06:26","slug":"15-news-general-interest-publishers-that-pay-for-essays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/uncategorized\/15-news-general-interest-publishers-that-pay-for-essays\/","title":{"rendered":"15 News\/General Interest Publishers that Pay for Essays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The New York Times<\/strong> covers politics, business, technology, science, health, sports, arts, style, movies, travel, books, education, jobs, real estate, and more. They accept opinion essays (400 to 1,200 words). According to payment reports, they pay up to $1.00 per word. Details here<\/a>.
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GEN<\/strong> is a publication by Medium about politics, power, and culture. They are looking for 3 to 4 pieces (on music, art, books, food, etc.) by critics of color each week. They pay $1.00 per word for essays\/stories and $2.00 per word for reported pieces. For details, refer to this Twitter thread<\/a> and this page<\/a>.
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Public Seminar<\/strong> is \u201ca journal of ideas, politics and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School.\u201d They accept full submissions but recommend authors to pitch first if they are writing specifically for Public Seminar. They want essays and reviews of 800 to 2,000 words. They only pay students and people who are contingently employed. Pay: $200 per article. To learn more, refer to this page<\/a>.
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The American Interest<\/strong> is a bi-monthly magazine that focuses on American policy, politics, and culture. They welcome submissions of feature essays and book\/film reviews. According to one payment report, they paid $200 for a blog post of 2,000 words. To learn more, refer to this page<\/a>.
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Prism<\/strong> is a nonprofit that is working in tandem with Daily Kos. They elevate \u201cstories, ideas, and solutions from leaders, thinkers, and activists whose voices are critical to a reflective democracy.\u201d They are seeking pitches for articles, essays, and op-eds. They pay 40 cents per word. They are also seeking comics, graphic stories, or other illustrated work, for which they pay $150 to $500. To learn more, refer to this\u00a0Twitter post<\/a>\u00a0and their website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Morning News (TMN)<\/strong> is a webzine that covers \u201cwhat\u2019s interesting on the web, from breaking news to slow-tempo analysis, personal essays and restaurant trivia, investigative reporting, weird headlines, and videos from every era of David Bowie\u2019s career.\u201d According to payment reports, they pay up to $0.07 per word. Queries and articles should be sent to submissions@themorningnews.org. To learn more about them, visit this page<\/a>.
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Point.51<\/strong> is an independent print magazine that explores essential contemporary issues in Europe. They are looking for pitches and story ideas from freelance journalists and photographers. They pay \u20ac300 for commissioned long-form stories and photo essays. They also cover some reporting expenses by prior agreement. Details here<\/a>.
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Areo<\/strong> is an opinion and analysis magazine that is focused on current affairs, particularly humanism, politics, culture, science, human rights, and free expression. They publish \u201cthoughtful essays from a variety of perspectives compatible with broadly liberal and humanist values.\u201d They want pieces of 1,200 to 3,000 words. They pay $50 for a regular piece and $100 for a feature. For details, visit this page<\/a>.
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Salon<\/strong> covers \u201cnews, politics, entertainment, culture, and technology through investigative reporting, commentary, criticism, and provocative personal essays.\u201d Payment reports suggest that they pay an average of $0.12 per word. For more details, visit this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overland<\/strong>\u00a0is a magazine of cultural criticism, essays, and literature. Each week they list topics that they are seeking pitches for. They pay $70 for articles of 500 to 1000 words. To learn more, read their submission guidelines.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

AARP: The Magazine<\/strong>\u00a0accepts submission from freelance writers on a variety of topics, including personal essays. They want \u201cthoughtful, timely, new takes on matters of importance to people over 50.\u201d According to our sources, they pay up to $1 a word. To learn more, read their submission guidelines.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Christian Science Monitor<\/strong> is an international news organization. They\u2019re looking for in-depth, journalistic pieces that display \u201cquality of thought.\u201d They also publish personal essays in their “Home Forum<\/a>” department. Their basic rate for a story is $200 to $225. To learn more, read their submission guidelines.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parabola<\/strong> is the magazine published by The Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition, <\/em>a non-profit organization. Each issue of Parabola focused on “one of the timeless themes of human existence.” The tag line for the magazine is “the Search for Meaning.” They pay $150 to $400 for essays, 1,000 to 3,000 words. They also accept book reviews, retellings of traditional stories, and poetry. To learn more, and to submit, read their submission guidelines.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Al-jazeera English<\/strong> is one of the better known outlets giving \u2018a voice to the voiceless\u2019. They receive over 100 pitches a week, and claim that all queries are looked over and carefully considered. They have a detailed submission page\u00a0<\/a> explaining what makes features, long-read interactives, photo-essays or videos stand out and tell the story they want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Longreads<\/strong> is a blog from the company behind WordPress, the software which powers over 25% of the internet. Base pay is $500 per essay. Payment is determined by the amount of work. They also pay for features, at a higher rate, competitive with large publications. To learn more, visit their submission guidelines page.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Times covers politics, business, technology, science, health, sports, arts, style, movies, travel, books, education, jobs, real estate, and more. They accept opinion essays (400 to 1,200 words). According to payment reports, they pay up to $1.00 per word. Details here. GEN is a publication by Medium about politics, power, and culture. They…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7670,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7669\/revisions\/7670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}