Tuesday, November 26th 2024
Slate is an online general-interest magazine that offers analysis and commentary on news, politics, business, culture, and technology. Their features editor is seeking science and health features, particularly on big, unexpected, and counterintuitive ideas. As per this post by their senior tech editor, they typically pay $500 to $750 for features of 1,000 to 1,500 words. If interested, send your pitches to shannon.palus@slate.com. To learn more, refer to their features editor’s post and their pitch guide.
Tuesday, October 1st 2024
Slate is an online general-interest magazine that offers analysis and commentary on news, politics, business, culture, and technology. Their senior tech editor is seeking personal and reported essay pitches. The essays should have a tech bent. They typically pay $500 to $750 for features (1,000 to 1,500 words). Send your pitches to tony.tran@slate.com. To learn more, refer to their senior tech editor’s post and their pitch guide.
Sunday, May 19th 2024
Slate is an online general-interest magazine that offers analysis and commentary on news, politics, business, culture, and technology. Their senior business editor is looking for pitches for their business section: “Send me your smart ideas on the products we use, the money we spend, the trends we love (and hate!), the weird thing you can’t stop thinking about (especially this pls).” Rates can go up to around $750 for short reported features. Send your pitches to katie.krzaczek@slate.com. Read their senior business editor’s post here. Learn how to pitch them here.
Tuesday, January 30th 2024
Slate is an online general-interest magazine that offers analysis and commentary on news, politics, business, culture, and technology. Their senior culture editor is always accepting pitches for TV, culture at jenny.zhang@slate.com. Rates begin at $350. Read their senior culture editor’s post here. Learn how to pitch them here.
Tuesday, June 20th 2023
Slate is an online general-interest magazine that offers analysis and commentary on news, politics, business, culture, and technology. Their senior editor is seeking science and health pitches—particularly fun/weird arguments. Pay starts at $300 for essays. Send your pitches to shannon.palus@slate.com. To learn more, refer to their senior editor’s Twitter thread and their pitch guide.
Friday, June 16th 2023
Slate is an online general-interest magazine that offers analysis and commentary on news, politics, business, culture, and technology. Their senior culture editor is accepting pitches for their culture section. They’re seeking “smart, funny, original criticism (and more) about TV in particular, film, books, fame, online, and whatever else is ‘culture’ these days.” Rates begin at $350. Direct your pitches to jenny.zhang@slate.com. Read their senior culture editor’s Twitter thread here. Learn how to pitch them here.
Sunday, April 30th 2023
Slate is an online general-interest
magazine that offers analysis and commentary on news, politics, business,
culture, and technology. Their senior editor is looking for pitches for their
column on exercise, Good Fit. They want opinion pieces and reported pieces.
They do not want personal essays. Pay is $400 to $750 per piece. Send your
pitches to shannon.palus@slate.com.
To learn more, refer to their senior editor’s Twitter thread
and their pitch guide.
Tuesday, January 3rd 2023
Slate is an online general-interest magazine that offers analysis and commentary on news, politics, business, culture, and technology. Their senior editor is seeking pitches for their new fitness column. Pay is $300 to $750. If interested, send your pitches to shannon.palus@slate.com. Read their senior editor’s tweet here and their pitch guide here.
Deadline: January 11th, 2023
Tuesday, December 6th 2022
Slate is an online general-interest magazine that offers analysis and commentary on news, politics, business, culture, and technology. Their senior editor of life and culture is looking for human interest and culture pitches. Their editor hasn’t mentioned the rates in the tweet but according to another editor, their rates begin at $200. If interested, send your pitches to isabelle.kohn@slate.com. To learn more, refer to their senior editor’s tweet and their pitch guide.
Friday, August 5th 2022
Slate is an online
general-interest magazine that offers analysis and commentary on news,
politics, business, culture, and technology. Their business and technology
editor is looking for pitches, especially business and economy pitches. Their
starting rate
is $200. If interested, send your pitches to jonathan.fischer@slate.com. To
learn more, refer to their editor’s Tweet and
their pitch guidelines.
Tuesday, August 2nd 2022
Slate is an online general-interest magazine that offers analysis and commentary on news, politics, business, culture, and technology. Their senior editor is accepting pitches. Their rates start at $200. For more information, read their senior editor’s Tweet and their pitch guidelines.
Tuesday, March 15th 2022
Slate
is an online general-interest magazine that offers analysis and commentary on
news, politics, business, culture, and technology. Their senior editor is
looking for a POC / non-cismale freelancer to write on the movie, Turning Red. She
doesn’t want reviews. Starting rate is $200. She is also seeking pitches on
internet culture/fandom/music. To learn more, refer to their senior editor’s Twitter thread
and their pitch guide.
Tuesday, November 30th 2021
Future
Tense is “a partnership of Slate, New America, and Arizona State University
that examines emerging technologies, public policy, and society.” Their
associate editor is seeking essays at “the intersection of
tech/science/policy/the future.” Rate is $350+ for 1,000 to 1,500 words. Send
your pitches to jaime.green@slate.com.
For details, refer to their associate editor’s Twitter thread
and their pitch guide.
Tuesday, November 9th 2021
Future
Tense is “a partnership of Slate, New America, and Arizona State University
that examines emerging technologies, public policy, and society.” Their
associate editor has tweeted, “Hey if any Astro friends have a take on
#astro2020 and what it means and want to write about it, please send me a
pitch!” Their rates start at $350 for 800 to 1,200 words. Pitches should be
sent to jaime.green@slate.com. For
details, refer to their associate editor’s Tweet and
their pitch guide.
Sunday, October 24th 2021
Slate
is an online general-interest magazine that offers analysis and commentary on
news, politics, business, culture, and technology. Their senior editor is
looking for pitches on: Maid, Lil Nas X, Adele, and Animal Crossing Update. Rate
is $175-$400. Pitches should be sent to allegra.frank@slate.com.
Read their senior editor’s Tweet here and
their pitch guide here.
Saturday, September 18th 2021
Slate
is an online general-interest magazine that offers analysis and commentary on
news, politics, business, culture, and technology. Their senior editor is
always seeking “more pitches on gaming, music, anime, internet culture, TV,
movies, cartoons, especially from BIPOC/non-male/non-cis writers.” She likes criticism/commentary,
reports, and features. Rate: $150 to $400. Email your pitches to allegra.frank@slate.com. To read
their senior editor’s Twitter thread, click here. To
read their pitch guide, click here.
Sunday, May 30th 2021
Slate is an online general-interest
magazine that offers analysis and commentary on news, politics, business,
culture, and technology. They are looking for history-related pitches. Their
pieces are usually 1,000 to 2,000 words and their rates start at $200. If
interested, send your pitches to rebecca.onion@slate.com.
To learn more, refer to this Twitter
thread and this page.
To read their pitch guide, refer to this page.
Sunday, January 17th 2021
Slate is an online general-interest
magazine that offers analysis and commentary on news, politics, business, culture,
and technology. Their news director is looking for a woman who has left the
workforce because of the coronavirus pandemic and wants to write about it.
According to payment reports, they pay an average of $0.24 per word. Send
pitches to susan.matthews@slate.com.
For more information, read their news director’s Tweet
and their pitch guide.
Sunday, September 13th 2020
Future Tense is “a partnership of Slate,
New America, and Arizona State University that examines emerging technologies,
public policy, and society.” Their associate editor is always accepting pitches
from writers, academics, and experts. She is “looking for surprising
angles/arguments at the intersection of tech/science/policy and the (near or
distant) future.” According to payment reports, they pay an average of $0.24
per word. To learn more, refer to their associate editor’s Twitter thread
and their pitch guide.
Friday, August 28th 2020
Slate is an online
general-interest magazine. Their editor is looking for health/science story
pitches. She likes “reported personal essays, neglected-but-important research,
silly/maddening things you discovered while reporting other things.” Pay is
$200 to $400 per piece (word count limit: 1,200 words). Send your pitches to shannon.palus@slate.com. For more
information, refer to their editor’s Twitter thread
and their pitch guide.