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
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PRIMARY LIST
âTHE USUAL SUSPECTSâ (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 (<-- links to scale analogies & free images, at end)
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 canât 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, expertsâ 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 PolĂtico (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
ÂżCoĚmo ves? (Mexico) - Estrella Burgos
Consumer Reports - Lauren Friedman, Diane Umansky
Cookâs 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 ClarĂn (Argentina)
El Comercio (PerĂş) - 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; âenvironmental solutions in actionâ) - 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
Fodorâs
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
Harperâs 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 - âwe love anything STEM or sustainability relatedâ
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