The Freelance Journalism Podcast26 Marras 2024

Make your pitch stand out with advice from NY Times Opinion Editor Katie Kingsbury

Want to land your hot take in the New York Times? Opinion Editor Katie Kingsbury and host Katherine Reynolds Lewis discuss how you can pitch The Times your opinion piece. Highlights include: what Katie’s ideal pitch looks like, and what to expect from the editing process. Katie also peels back the curtain on a few of her favorite op-eds, revealing what it takes to get a piece from a pitch to the printed page.

Katie Kingsbury has been at the Times since 2017. Before she was running the desk, she was a deputy editor working on pieces surrounding guns, domestic violence, race, and culture. Prior to that, she worked at The Boston Globe as Managing Editor of Digital. She won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for her series on poor working conditions and pay in the restaurant industry.

John Lewis's posthumous guest essay on standing up for your beliefshttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/opinion/john-lewis-civil-rights-america.htmlEmi Nightfeld on working for Googlehttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/07/opinion/google-job-harassment.htmlConnie Wang's multimedia piece on the generation of Asian American women named after Connie Chunghttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/05/11/opinion/connie-chung-named-after.htmlDebra Kamin's path from freelancing about real estate to a stafferhttps://www.nytimes.com/by/debra-kamin

Katherine Reynolds Lewis is the founder of the Institute for Independent Journalists. A science journalist and author who writes about education, equity, mental health, parenting, journalism, and social justice, she previously worked as a national correspondent for Newhouse News Service and Bloomberg News.

The Freelance Journalism Podcast is a production of The Institute for Independent Journalists, an organization devoted to the financial and emotional well-being of BIPOC freelancers. Learn more about our work at theiij.com

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