Food & Environment Reporting Network (FERN) is a non-profit news organization that produces explanatory and investigative journalism on food, agriculture, and environmental health. They ''are eager to support stories that are in-depth, investigative and explanatory, and expect they will have a broad impact when they appear.'' According to their website, they pay according to the complexity of the project. A payment report suggests they paid $1.00 for a 3000-words feature. To learn more, refer to this page.