Science media outlets to pitch

Media outlets that publish science stories, mostly U.S. & Canada, mostly English-language [plus many additional science journalism resources]

[Last updated: 4/26/24. This is a FREE public document meant for reporters, writers, journalists, and editors. Let me know of errors or additions. List includes some health, climate, nature, tech, and general media, too. I do not guarantee the accuracy of information in this document. List may not be monetized without my permission. List made independent of any organization or employer. - Robin Lloyd]

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

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OUTLETS:

PRIMARY LIST

‘THE USUAL SUSPECTS’ (subset of above)

ENVIRONMENTAL OUTLETS SUB-LIST

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE SUB-LIST

NOT-SCIENCE OUTLETS

INVESTIGATIVE SUB-LIST

CHILDREN'S PUBLICATIONS SUB-LIST

OUTLETS THAT ACCEPT PODCAST/AUDIO PITCHES

OUTLETS THAT PUBLISH OPINION OR FIRST-PERSON ESSAYS

OUTLETS THAT PUBLISH BOOK REVIEWS

OUTLETS THAT FACT-CHECK BEFORE PUBLISHING

BUSINESS ISSUES:

CONTRACTS AND CLAUSES

PAY AT LEAST US$2/WORD

PAY AT LEAST US$1/WORD

PAY LESS THAN US$1/WORD

PAY $0, EDIT

FREELANCING RESOURCE SITES, NEWSLETTERS, SERVICES

PLACES TO LOOK FOR A JOB

TRAFFIC ESTIMATES OF MANY MEDIA SITES (separate document)

TOOLS:

PHONE-CALL RECORDING APPS, TECHNOLOGIES

PRESS RELEASE AGGREGATORS/DISTRIBUTORS

SOURCE-FINDING RESOURCES, GENERAL AND DIVERSITY SPECIFIC (SPJ RACE AND GENDER HOTLINE

HOW TO READ A SCIENTIFIC PAPER

CAREER DEVELOPMENT:

AWARDS & AWARDS CALENDARS

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

JOURNALISM JOB BOARDS LIST, MAINTAINED BY SOCIETY OF ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISTS

ORGANIZATIONS THAT COVER LOW TRAVEL COSTS FOR REPORTING

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

UNIVERSITIES WITH SCIENCE OR HEALTH JOURNALISM TRAINING (separate document)

WRITING AND TRAINING WORKSHOPS

Primary List - Publications/outlets to pitch:

[Here are some tips for finding email addresses. If you still can’t find an email address, contact me. Pitch guidelines are hotlinked to some publication names or see contact field.]

AARP - Margaret Guroff

Adweek -

Aeon - Pam Weintraub, experts’ pitches, pam3001@gmail.com

Aerospace America -

Air & Space Magazine (Smithsonian Institution): Tony Reichhardt, treichhardt@si.edu

Airline magazines - Alaska Beyond Magazine; American Way; Hemispheres (United); Open Skies (Emirates), Sky (Delta) - reportedly closed 4/10/20; Southwest Airlines; Spirit

Al Jazeera - Laurin-Whitney Gottbrath, gottbrathl@aljazeera.net; Amira Abujbara

All About Space magazine (Future US)

Alta (lifestyle, history, arts of Calif and West) - Mary Melton

American Indian magazine - Anne Bolen

American Scientist - Corey Powell, Katie Burke, Fenella Saunders

Animal Político (Mexico-based)

Anthropocene (non-profit)

Amer. Psychol. Assn. (APA) Monitor - Sara Martin

Apartment Therapy - Megan Baker

Archaeology - Eric Powell, Claudia Valentino, cvalentino@archaeology.org

Architectural Digest

Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting

Ars Technica - John Timmer, john.timmer@arstechnica.com

Asimov Press

Associated Press (AP) - Alicia Chang, achang@ap.org (seeks mainly video, photo, overseas stringers)

Astronomy - astronomyeditorial@astronomy.com

Atavist - Seyward Darby

Atlas Obscura - offbeat, obscure, curious places, things to explore; Ted Scheinman, Sommer Mathis, Jessica Hester

Atmos - Jason Dinh

Audubon - Hannah Waters; Andrew Del-Colle, adelcolle@audubon.org; Jenny Bogo, jbogo@audubon.org, Andy McGlaushen - conservation policy

Audubon Society

Australian Geographic

AXIOS - Miriam Kramer, miriamfromearth@gmail.com; Allison Snyder, amsnyder@alum.mit.edu

Backpacker

Bats magazine - Kristen Pope

Bay Nature - Moises Velasquez-Manoff

Bay Journal

BBC online

BBC Capital (workplace-related research, psychology, economics)

BBC Earth - Martha Henriques, Jocelyn Timperley

BBC Focus magazine

BBC Travel - Ellie Cobb

Bicycling

BioGraphic - Steven Bedard

Biospace - Shawna Williams, shawna.williams@biospace.com

Bloomberg - Drew Armstrong, health desk

Bloomberg Business Week - Jeremy Keehn (features)

Boston Globe - Ideas section, Brian Bergstein

Brainfacts -

Lisa Chiu

BMJ (British Medical Journal) - Mun-Keat Looi

Canadian Geographic

Cancer Today - Marci Landsmann; Kate Yandell, kate.yandell@aacr.org - web

Cancer Therapy Advisor - Randi Hernandez, randi.hernandez@haymarketmedia.com

CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp, national public broadcaster)

Capital and Main - income inequality, climate change, green economy, housing, health care, public education, immigration, race, criminal justice

Chemical & Engineering News - Chris Gorski (physical sciences news)

Chemistry World (UK) - Patrick Walter

Chicago Tribune

China Dialogue (London-based, non-profit) - Chris Davy, chris.davy@chinadialogue.net

Christian Science Monitor - Noelle Swan

Chronicle of Higher Education - Max Alvarez

Circle of Blue (water) - Laura Herd

Citylab - David Dudley

Civil Eats (non-profit) - Matt Wheeland, Matt@civileats.com

Climate Home News (global site covering climate change)

Climbing - Kevin Corrigan

Clinical Omics

CNN

CNN Travel

Cognitive Times

Columbia Journalism Review - meta-coverage - Brendan Fitzgerald

¿Cómo ves? (Mexico) - Estrella Burgos

Consumer Reports - Lauren Friedman, Diane Umansky

Cook’s Science - Molly Birnbaum

Cosmopolitan -

Cosmos (Australia) - Andrew Masterson, andrew@cosmosmagazine.com

Crosscut (non-profit) (Pacific NW, Washington state, Seattle)

Curve

DSMObserver (deep-sea mining science and env) - Andrew Thaler, andrew@dsmobserver.com

Daily Beast - exec editor Katie Baker; science & innovation editor Tony Ho Tran - tony.tran@thedailybeast.com; senior science & innovation editor Neel Patel - neel.patel@thedailybeast.com

Dazed - Anna Cafolla

Deutsche Welle Global Ideas (Germany; DW.com) sci-tech, environment pitches, both English and German, for online, video, radio, TV

Discover - Becky Lang, Eric Betz, Gemma Tarlach, Anna Funk, Alex Orlando (first initial last name [at] discovermagazine.com; editorial@discovermagazine.com is checked daily)

Documented NY (immigration, immigrants, policy)

DoubleBlind magazine (psychedelics)

Drug Discovery News - Kristie Nybo, editor@drugdiscoverynews.com

Earth magazine (now part of Nautilus)

Earth Island Journal

Earther (enviro news, part of G/O Media) - Brian Kahn, brian.kahn@earther.com

Eaten Magazine - hello@eatenmagazine.com

Eater (Vox Media) - Erin DeJesus

Eating Well - Carolyn Malcoun

Economist - Alok Jha, alokjha@economist.com

El Clarín (Argentina)

El Comercio (Perú) - not sure if they accept freelance pitches

El Espectador (Colombia) - Pablo Correa

El Mercurio (Chile) - not sure if they accept freelance pitches

El Tiempo (Colombia)

Elephant magazine - intersection of visual culture with gender, mental health, education, sexuality, money, internet

Ensia (non-profit; “environmental solutions in action”) - Mary Hoff, David Doody

Environmental Health News - Brian Bienkowski

Eos (AGU pub) - Caryl-Sue Micalizio, cmicalizio@agu.org

Epicurious

Experience magazine

Experience Life

Fancy Comma - science & society

Fast Company

Fatherly (Bustle Digital Group) - Tyghe Trimble, tyghe.trimble@fatherly.com

Field & Stream - Colin Kearns, colin.kearns@bonniercorp.com

Filter - advocacy journalism on drug use, policy, editor@filtermag.org

Fodor’s

Folha de Sao Paulo (Brazil) - not sure if they accept freelance pitches

Food52

Food Dive (and all the Dive sites - BioPharma Dive, Construction Dive, Education Dive, Healthcare Dive, MedTech Dive, Restaurant Dive, Smart Cities Dive, Social Media Today, Utility Dive, Waste Dive)

Food and Environment Reporting Network (FERN) (non-profit)

Food & Wine - profiles, narrative essays, trends, Oset Babur, front of book; Margaret Eby, EIC

Food Unfolded (EU)

Forbes - no pitches but associate editor is Alex Knapp - aknapp@forbes.com

Freethink - future, science, tech; B. David Zarley, freethinkweekly@freethink.com

Fusion

Futurism -

Gawker (Bustle Digital Group)

Geekwire (tech)

GEN (Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News) - John Sterling, jsterling@genengnews.com

Geographical (UK)

Genome

GenomeWeb

Gimlet, Science Vs. - Kaitlyn Sawrey, Wendy Zuckerman

Gizmodo (G/O Media) - Rose Pastore

Gizmodo UK

Go magazine

Gothamist (NYC news, culture, food, events; part of NY Public Radio)

Great Lakes Now - environmental + science stories relating to Great Lakes, Natasha Blakely, nblakely@dptv.org

Green Matters

GreenBiz - Heather Clancy, Deonna Anderson

Grid News (world news, connected solutions) - Lauren Morello (lmorello@grid.news)

Grist (non-profit) - Darby Minow Smith, Naveena Sadasivam, Katherine Bagley kbagley@grist.org

Grow (hemp and cannabis horticulture)

Guernica

Hakai (coastal/marine/eco) - Colin Schultz, pitches: editor@hakaimagazine.com

Harper’s magazine - Stephanie McFeeters, Chris Carroll

Harvard Public Health

Health Affairs - Chris Fleming

Healthline - Crystal Hoshaw

High Country News (non-profit) - Kate Schimel, Maya Kapoor

Houstonian - Dianna Wray

IEEE Spectrum - Glenn Zorpette, g.zorpette@ieee.org; Eliza Strickland

Innovation and Tech Today - cwarner@goipw.com. Also publishes @cannatechtoday @ResTechToday and @Sustain_Today - “we love anything STEM or sustainability related”

Input (Bustle Media Group) - shut down Sept. 2022

InsideClimate News (non-profit) - Stacy Morford, David Sassoon

Inside Higher Education - Marjorie Valbrun

Inside Science - Chris Gorski, cgorski@aip.org

Insider - Rebecca Harrington, Dana Varinsky, Ariel Schwartz; Edith Honan; Conz Preti, cpreti@insider.com, parenting & health; Grace DeGraaf (climate, tech, work, education) - gdegraaf@insider.com

Bustle (Bustle Digital Group)

Inter