Freelance Opportunity Pitching Guidelines and Open Calls
The SPJ Freelance Community shares information below on opportunities for independent journalists to pitch their work to outlets and answer open calls for pitches. The database is crowd-sourced and updated regularly by volunteers. To share information about these or other opportunities, or to volunteer to help maintain this data, please email spjfreelancecommunity@gmail.com.
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Pitching Guidelines • Open Calls for Pitches
Pitching Guidelines
The table below is updated automatically to show deadlines for taking advantage of these opportunities.
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Pitching Guidelines • Open Calls for Pitches
SPJ News
– E.W. Scripps School of Journalism named Historic Site in Journalism
– ProPublica, The Texas Tribune, The Marshall Project, Military Times, City Bureau, The Maine Monitor honored with SPJ Sunshine Award
– Austin American-Statesman, Chicago Tribune, ProPublica and The Washington Post earn SPJ Ethics in Journalism Awards
Events and Deadlines
– 9/23/23: Shop SPJ Sale
– 9/26/23: Why headline testing matters & how AI can help
– 9/28/23: SPJ23 Annual Convention
– 9/28/23: SPJ23 Keynote featuring Gio Benitez
– 9/29/23: Covering a U.S. Government Shutdown: Story ideas for national and local reporters
