Tuesday, March 11th 2025
Rest of World is a global nonprofit publication that covers technology’s impact beyond the Western bubble. They’re looking for pitches from experienced freelance journalists. According to their editor-in-chief, they offer a flat fee for shorter stories, generally estimated at $0.50/word, with payments ranging from $750 to $1,000 per story. If interested, send your pitches to mehboob@restofworld.org for Asia and indranil@restofworld.org for the Middle East and Africa. To learn more, refer to this post and their pitch guidelines.
Monday, January 20th 2025
Rest of World is a global nonprofit publication that covers technology’s impact beyond the Western bubble. In 2025, they’re focused on 4 key coverage areas: EV Revolution, China Outside China, Tech Giants, and Innovation. They offer a flat fee for shorter stories, generally estimated at $0.50/word, with payments ranging from $750 to $1,000 per story. For longer features, rates begin at $1.00/word. To learn more, refer to their Africa reporter’s post and this page.
Friday, January 10th 2025
Rest of World is a global nonprofit publication that covers technology’s impact beyond the Western bubble. Their newly appointed deputy editor (who will be overseeing their LatAm, China, and labor+tech coverage) is looking for LatAm and China pitches. Rate is $750 for a 1,200-word story. If interested, direct your pitches to rina@restofworld.org. To read their deputy editor’s post, click here. To visit their contact page, click here.
Sunday, November 24th 2024
Rest of World is a global nonprofit publication that covers technology’s impact beyond the Western bubble. Their China editor is seeking stories (800 to 1,200 words) about “Silicon Valley activities around the globe, as well as Chinese tech impact around the globe.” They pay a flat rate of $750 plus reporting expenses. If interested, send your pitches to joanna@restofworld.org. To learn more, refer to their editor’s post and their China desk freelance submission guidelines.
Tuesday, July 2nd 2024
Rest of World is a global nonprofit publication that covers technology’s impact beyond the Western bubble. Their China editor is seeking “deeply-reported, human-centered stories on Chinese and diaspora experiences with technology, unique angles on U.S.-China tech rivalry & the impact of China tech around the world + scoops!” They pay a flat rate of $750 plus reporting expenses. Email your pitches to joanna@restofworld.org. To read their China editor’s post, click here. To read their China desk submission guidelines, click here.
Sunday, June 30th 2024
Rest of World is a global nonprofit publication that covers technology’s impact beyond the Western bubble. Their US tech editor is looking for reported article pitches. They pay a flat rate of $750 plus reporting expenses. If interested, email your pitches to russell@restofworld.org. For more information, refer to their editor’s post and their call for pitches.
Tuesday, June 25th 2024
Rest of World is a global nonprofit publication that covers technology’s impact beyond the Western bubble. Their deputy editor is commissioning an exciting long-form business story. If you’re a journalist with experience of writing profiles of Silicon Valley companies and have sources in that space, please email itika@restofworld.org. Their deputy editor hasn’t mentioned the rates but as per this document, their rates for features begin at $1 per word. To read their deputy editor’s post, click here. To visit their contact page, click here.
Sunday, January 28th 2024
Rest of World is a global nonprofit publication that covers technology’s impact beyond the Western bubble. They’re looking for features. They’re especially interested in stories that fall under these topics:
- The rise of AI
- Electric vehicles
- Silicon Valley in rest of world
- Creator economy
- China outside China
- Regional champions
The majority of their feature stories are 3,000+ words and start at $1 per word. To learn more, refer to their features director’s post and their pitch guide for features.
Thursday, January 11th 2024
Rest of World is a global nonprofit publication that covers technology’s impact beyond the Western bubble. Their features director is seeking pitches for stories on: AI, electric vehicles, and the impact of Silicon Valley outside the West. The focus of the stories must be outside North America and Western Europe. Their feature stories are usually 3,000 words+ and start at $1 per word. To read their features director’s post, click here. To read their pitch guide for features, click here.
Saturday, September 30th 2023
Rest of World is a global nonprofit publication
that covers technology’s impact beyond the Western bubble. They’re seeking a regular
contributor in Bangladesh. The contributor will pitch, report, and write
stories on technology and its impact on Bangladesh. They usually pay around $750
for reported stories (1,000 to 1,200 words). If interested, email durga@restofworld.org. To learn more,
refer to their editor-in-chief’s post. To
contact them, refer to this page.
Sunday, May 21st 2023
Rest of World is a global nonprofit
publication that covers technology’s impact beyond the Western bubble. Their
features director is seeking a longform writer located in South Africa, for an
assignment. The writer should have feature writing experience. According to
their features
pitch guide, their rates start at $1 per word. If interested, email victoria@restofworld.org. To read
their features director’s tweet, click here.
Tuesday, May 16th 2023
Rest of World is a global nonprofit
publication that covers technology’s impact beyond the Western bubble. Their features
director is looking for longform story ideas about tech in Africa, Asia,
LatAm,
or beyond. The majority of their feature stories are 3,000 words+. Their rates
begin at $1 per word. Pitches can be sent to victoria@restofworld.org. To learn
more, refer to their features director’s tweet and
their pitch
guide.
Tuesday, April 25th 2023
Rest of World is a global nonprofit
publication that covers technology’s impact beyond the Western bubble. Their
Africa desk is seeking pitches for stories on how tech affects people and
institutions. They pay US$500 for shorter news stories and US$750 for reports
(around 1,500 words). To learn more, refer to this tweet and
their pitching
guide.
Tuesday, April 4th 2023
Rest of World is a global nonprofit publication that covers technology’s impact beyond the Western bubble. Their China editor is seeking pitches related to:
1. “Generative AI and its impact
(from labor to regulation, to misinformation)”
2. “China tech's long-tail (the influence of Chinese tech in SEA, SA, Africa & beyond)”
They’re looking for news stories (800-1,000 words); insightful reports (1,000-2,000 words); and bold ideas (600-1,200 words). They pay $500 for news stories and $0.50/word for reports. Read their China editor’s tweet here and their pitch guidelines here.
Tuesday, March 28th 2023
Rest of World is a global nonprofit publication that covers technology’s impact beyond the Western bubble. Their features editor is seeking pitches for stories about technology’s impact in Africa, Asia, LatAm, or Eastern Europe. Their features are generally 3,000 words+ and start at $1 per word. Read their features editor’s tweet here. Learn how to pitch them here.
Sunday, March 5th 2023
Rest of World is a global
nonprofit publication that covers technology’s impact beyond the Western
bubble. Their features editor is looking for great story ideas about technology’s
impact in Africa, Asia, LatAm, or Eastern Europe. Their features are usually 3,000
words+ and start at $1 per word. Pitches can be sent to victoria@restofworld.org and/or kevin@restofworld.org. To read their
features editor’s tweet, click here. To
learn how to pitch them, click here.
Wednesday, February 15th 2023
Rest of World is a global nonprofit publication that covers technology’s impact beyond the Western bubble. Their Asia desk is looking for “pitches on tech issues facing the region.” The journalists “should have access to local subjects and be able to do reporting on the ground.” Rates are $400 to $600+ per piece. Pitches can be sent to sarah@restofworld.org. For more information, refer to this tweet and this page.
Sunday, January 29th 2023
Rest of World is a global nonprofit publication that covers technology’s impact beyond the Western bubble. Their features director is seeking a feature writer in South Korea who can take on a story. They’re looking for someone with experience writing longform narrative stories and preferably an interest in tech. Their features are typically 3,000 words+ and start at $1/word. If interested, get in touch with their features director at victoria@restofworld.org or via DM on Twitter. To read their features director’s tweet, click here. To read their pitch guide, click here.
Thursday, January 19th 2023
Rest of World is a global nonprofit publication that covers technology’s impact beyond the Western bubble. Their China editor is seeking news stories (800 to 1,000 words); insightful reports (1,000 to 2,000 words); and bold ideas (600 to 1,200 words) on the human-level impact of technology in China. They prioritize local voices. They pay $500 for news stories, $750 for reports, and $500 to $750 for ideas. Send your pitches to yll@restofworld.org. For more information, read their China editor’s tweet and their pitch guidelines (China desk).
Wednesday, December 7th 2022
Rest of World is a global
nonprofit publication that covers technology beyond the Western bubble. They
are commissioning features for the new year. They are seeking longform
narrative (generally 3,000+ words) about the impact of technology in “Africa,
Asia, or Latin America.” They want local stories with global implications. They
are especially interested in stories that fall under the topics of e-commerce,
labor, social media, and tech’s long tail. Rates begin at $1 per word. For more
information, read their features editor’s tweet
and their pitching
guidelines.
Sunday, November 6th 2022
Rest of World is a global nonprofit publication that covers technology beyond the Western bubble. Their features director is commissioning now for pieces to publish in 2023. They are looking for “deeply reported, longform narratives about technology in Asia, LatAm, Africa.” Their rates start at $1 per word and most of their feature stories are 3,000 words+. If interested, email victoria@restofworld.org. For more information, read their features director’s Tweet and their pitching guidelines.
Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Rest of World is a global
nonprofit publication that covers technology beyond the Western bubble. Their features
director is seeking reported, longform narrative journalism about technology
outside the West. Their rates start at $1 per word. Most of their feature
stories are 3,000+ words. If interested, get in touch with their features
director (even if you don’t have a specific pitch at the moment) at victoria@restofworld.org. Read their
features director’s Twitter thread here and
their pitch guide here.
Wednesday, December 29th 2021
Rest
of World is a global nonprofit publication that covers technology beyond the
Western bubble. They are seeking 3,000+ word, character-led feature stories on
the impacts of technology outside the Western bubble. Their rates start at $1
per word. Pitches should be emailed to victoria@restofworld.org.
For more information, refer to their features director’s Tweet and
their pitch
guide.
Monday, November 8th 2021
Rest
of World is a global nonprofit publication that covers technology beyond the
Western bubble. They are looking for feature pitches. They want “3,000-word+
stories that explore the impact of technology outside of the Western bubble.” They
are especially interested in stories that fall under the topics of e-commerce,
labor, social media, and tech’s long tail. Their rates start at $1 per word. If
interested, send your pitches to victoria@restofworld.org.
To learn more, refer to their features director’s Tweet and
their pitch
guide.
Saturday, July 10th 2021
Rest
of World is a global nonprofit publication that covers technology beyond the
Western bubble. Their newly appointed regional editor (Asia) is looking for pitches
from Asia-based writers. Their rates start
at $1 per word. Pitches should be sent to sarah@restofworld.org.
For more information, read their regional editor’s Twitter thread and
their pitch guide.
Sunday, July 4th 2021
Rest of
World is a global nonprofit publication that covers technology
beyond the Western bubble. They are seeking pitches for their Ideas section
which is their “home for arguments, opinions, and essays on how
tech, culture, and human experience collide in communities outside the West.”
They are seeking local ideas with global implications. The majority of their
Ideas essays are 800-1,000 words. Their rates start
at $1 per word. Pitches should be sent to devi@restofworld.org.
Read their Ideas editor’s Twitter thread here
and their Ideas section’s pitch guide here.
Tuesday, June 22nd 2021
Rest of World is an international
nonprofit journalism organization that is focused on “the impact of technology
beyond the Western bubble.” Their editor is accepting pitches. The biggest
beats that they cover are “social media, ecommerce, labor, and the downstream
effects of Big Tech outside the Western world.” Their editor is “especially
interested in pitches that are global in nature or connect themes happening in
multiple countries.” Their rates start
at $1/word. If interested, send your pitches to louise@restofworld.org. Read their
editor’s Twitter thread here and
their pitch guide here.
Sunday, March 28th 2021
Rest of World is an international
nonprofit journalism organization that is focused on “the impact of technology
beyond the Western bubble.” Their ideas editor is seeking “opinion journalism
that advances an argument about tech that is somehow new.” They are particularly
eager to read: “Arguments related to e-commerce, labor or labor markets / the
future of work, social media and online culture, and/or the impact of big tech
in places that *aren’t* the US, Canada, Europe, NZ, and Australia.” They are
also seeking ideas pieces tied to the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). They
are eager to work with contributors based in the regions that they cover. Their
rates
start at $1 per word. Pitches should be sent to devi@restofworld.org. For details, read
their ideas editor’s Twitter
thread and their pitch
guide.
Monday, February 22nd 2021
Rest of World is a new international
nonprofit journalism organization that is focused on “the impact of technology
beyond the Western bubble.” Their newly appointed South Asia and Middle East
editor is looking for pitches, especially from local writers. Their rates start
at $1 per word. To learn more, refer to their editor’s Tweet and this
page.
Friday, October 23rd 2020
Rest of World is an international
nonprofit journalism organization that is focused on “the impact of technology
beyond the Western bubble.” Their senior editor is accepting story pitches. Rates
start at $1 per word. If interested, email your pitches to louise@restofworld.org. For details,
refer to their senior editor’s Twitter thread
and this page.
Saturday, October 10th 2020
Rest of World is a new international
nonprofit journalism organization that is focused on “the impact of technology
beyond the Western bubble.” Their newly appointed senior editor is accepting
pitches. Rates start at $1 per word. If interested, DM their senior editor on
Twitter. To learn more, refer to this Twitter thread
and this page.
Saturday, July 25th 2020
Rest of World is an international nonprofit journalism organization that is focused on “the impact of technology beyond the Western bubble.” Their managing editor is looking to assign stories for September and October. They publish longer features (3,000 words and up), mid-length features (less than 2,000 words), profiles (about 1,500 words), and short front-of-the-book pieces (700 to 1,000 words). Their rates start at $1 per word. Read their editor’s Tweet here. Learn more here.