Media outlets that publish science stories, mostly U.S. & Canada, mostly English-language [plus many additional science journalism resources]
[Last updated: 3/15/24. 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 (<-- 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
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, [email protected]
Aerospace America -
Air & Space Magazine (Smithsonian Institution): Tony Reichhardt, [email protected]
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, [email protected]; 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, [email protected]
Architectural Digest
Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting
Ars Technica - John Timmer, [email protected]
Asimov Press
Associated Press (AP) - Alicia Chang, [email protected] (seeks mainly video, photo, overseas stringers)
Astronomy - [email protected]
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, [email protected]; Jenny Bogo, [email protected], Andy McGlaushen - conservation policy
Audubon Society
Australian Geographic
AXIOS - Miriam Kramer, [email protected]; Allison Snyder, [email protected]
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, [email protected]
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, [email protected] - web
Cancer Therapy Advisor - Randi Hernandez, [email protected]
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, [email protected]
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, [email protected]
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, [email protected]
Crosscut (non-profit) (Pacific NW, Washington state, Seattle)
Curve
DSMObserver (deep-sea mining science and env) - Andrew Thaler, [email protected]
Daily Beast - exec editor Katie Baker; science & innovation editor Tony Ho Tran - [email protected]; senior science & innovation editor Neel Patel - [email protected]
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; [email protected] is checked daily)
Documented NY (immigration, immigrants, policy)
DoubleBlind magazine (psychedelics)
Drug Discovery News - Kristie Nybo, [email protected]
Earth magazine (now part of Nautilus)
Earth Island Journal
Earther (enviro news, part of G/O Media) - Brian Kahn, [email protected]
Eaten Magazine - [email protected]
Eater (Vox Media) - Erin DeJesus
Eating Well - Carolyn Malcoun
Economist - Alok Jha, [email protected]
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, [email protected]
Epicurious
Experience magazine
Experience Life
Fancy Comma - science & society
Fast Company
Fatherly (Bustle Digital Group) - Tyghe Trimble, [email protected]
Field & Stream - Colin Kearns, [email protected]
Filter - advocacy journalism on drug use, policy, [email protected]
FiveThirtyEight - Chad Matlin, [email protected]
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 - [email protected]
Freethink - future, science, tech; B. David Zarley, [email protected]
Fusion
Futurism -
Gawker (Bustle Digital Group)
Geekwire (tech)
GEN (Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News) - John Sterling, [email protected]
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, [email protected]
Green Matters
GreenBiz - Heather Clancy, Deonna Anderson
Grid News (world news, connected solutions) - Lauren Morello ([email protected])
Grist (non-profit) - Darby Minow Smith, Naveena Sadasivam, Katherine Bagley [email protected]
Grow (hemp and cannabis horticulture)
Guernica
Hakai (coastal/marine/eco) - Colin Schultz, pitches: [email protected]
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, [email protected]; Eliza Strickland
Innovation and Tech Today - [email protected]. 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, [email protected]
Insider - Rebecca Harrington, Dana Varinsky, Ariel Schwartz; Edith Honan; Conz Preti, [email protected], parenting & health; Grace DeGraaf (climate, tech, work, education) - [email protected]
Bustle (Bustle Digital Group)
International Jou