Pitch: Relationships & Technology Pieces – $1 to $2 per word
MIT Technology Review is at the beginning stages of planning our March/April 2025 issue. The theme is Relationships. We’re looking for big swings on that general theme: narrative features, essential profiles, investigations, and sharp essays to go in the feature well of the magazine. As always, we are looking for stories that have a technology angle.
The deadline for pitches is Friday September 27. Commissioned article drafts would be due in late November/early December.
If you are new to magazine writing and/or haven’t written for MIT Technology Review before, please take a moment to read these notes:
- Feature pitches are very special things. It’s not enough to have a topic you want to write about. The pitch should be for a specific story/approach, with a sharp top line—the clear expression of what the story is about and what readers will take away from it.
- A feature pitch should showcase your writing ability. Demonstrate how you will grab and retain readers’ attention.
- A feature pitch does not have to be long, but it should be long enough to lay out the kind of story you want to tell and how you’d tell it. Typically that can be done in 2-3 paragraphs.
- Please review our pitch guide before writing your pitch. It includes general pitching advice, word rates, and other helpful details.
Pitches can be sent to me and Allison Arieff (cc’d here). For best visibility, please send the pitch to us as a new e-mail (not as a reply to this one), with “Relationships Pitch” in the subject line.
Best wishes,
Rachel
PS We are always on the lookout for other items for print, including short profiles, Q&As for “Job titles of the future” (here’s an example), reported essays, historical essays, book essays (rounding up 3 to 4 recent/upcoming books on a topic), and photo-led behind-the-scenes stories. None of these need to be tied to the theme of the issue, and you can pitch them whenever you’d like.
Pitch / more details:
rachel.courtland@technologyreview.com
allison.arieff@technologyreview.com
Website: https://www.technologyreview.com/
