The Dominion / Media Co-op has a budget to pay two contributors each month.
Pitches are welcome from anyone; priority goes to those who have previously contributed.
Visit our writer’s guidelines: www.dominionpaper.ca/write.
News features are preferred. We are actively looking for (and prioritizing) solutions-oriented news pieces on the following topics, but all pitches with a Canadian angle are considered:
- Climate debt
- 2010 Olympics
- The economic crisis in Canada
- Co-operatives and economic alternatives
- The effects of the crisis on the working class, and resistance thereto
- Gender and queer issues in Canada
- Issues affecting Indigenous Peoples
- Non-governmental organizations
- Tar sands
- Stories about grassroots organizing
- Culture and the arts
- Radical disability politics
- Humour
- Other underreported stories
To pitch an article, fill out the form on this page:
www.mediacoop.ca/node/add/
If you do not have a Media Co-op account (which you can also use to post photos, audio, video and stories directly to the Media Co-op site), you’ll need to set one up. It takes about a minute, here:
The Dominion / Media Co-op currently pays a flat rate of $100 for accepted stories. Articles are either 800 or 1600 words. Editors reserve the right to suggest changes and edit stories (with your participation, of course!). Pitches should capture the content, tone and style of the story you plan to write; if the content of the article submitted differs significantly from the pitch, editors reserve the right to withhold payment.
Deadline for pitches: January 7
Response to pitches: January 8
Deadline for accepted articles: January 17
Last possible date to submit an accepted article and still be paid: January 30
If you do not submit a draft by the “last possible” date, the money will be bumped to the next round of pitches. Please do not pitch if you cannot complete the article by the deadline. The next call for pitches will go out on February 1.
Happy New Year!
–The Editors