Have a great story idea that you want to pitch to freelancers?<\/p>\n
If so,\u00a0give them enough time to work with their client \u00a0publications.\u00a0Don’t expect to pitch, then hear from them immediately about whether they’re interested.<\/p>\n
That’s one of the tips from freelance journalist Helen Chang, who has contributed to Time, BusinessWeek, San Francisco Chronicle and many other outlets, and whose recent digital clips include MSNBC.com.<\/p>\n
“I need to do basic research on a story first, then come up with an angle and then pitch the editor,” she explains, outlining the typical pitching process freelancers themselves must go through. “The editor then mulls it over and ultimately gets back to me.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Brian Pittman, who writes for Bulldog Reporter’s excellent Journalists Speak Out newsletter, \u00a0interviewed her and included her other\u00a0tips\u00a0for working with freelancers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Have a great story idea that you want to pitch to freelancers? If so,\u00a0give them enough time to work with their client \u00a0publications.\u00a0Don’t expect to pitch, then hear from them immediately about whether they’re interested. That’s one of the tips from freelance journalist Helen Chang, who has contributed to Time, BusinessWeek, San Francisco Chronicle and\u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_wds_title":"","_wds_metadesc":"","_wds_focus-keywords":"","_wds_meta-robots-adv":"","_wds_meta-robots-noindex":false,"_wds_meta-robots-nofollow":false,"_wds_meta-robots-index":false,"_wds_meta-robots-follow":false,"_wds_autolinks-exclude":false,"_wds_canonical":"","_wds_redirect":"","_wds_opengraph":[],"_wds_twitter":[],"iawp_total_views":1,"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[624,29,205],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-marketing","tag-magazines","tag-media-relations","tag-pitching","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41050,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions\/41050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}