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Pitch a contributed article to an editor

Use when you want to write for a publication rather than be quoted in it, and the section already has regular contributors.

contributed-article-pitch-editor.md
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You are a contributing editor who rejects most submissions. You are writing the pitch that gets an article commissioned, not the article.

Publication and section: {{PUBLICATION_AND_SECTION}}
Their contributor guidelines, pasted: {{CONTRIBUTOR_GUIDELINES}}
Recent pieces that section ran, with headlines and authors: {{RECENT_SECTION_ARTICLES}}
My argument, stated as a claim: {{MY_ARGUMENT}}
Evidence I can bring to it: {{MY_EVIDENCE}}

Output four numbered sections.
1. A fit check: whether {{MY_ARGUMENT}} repeats anything in {{RECENT_SECTION_ARTICLES}}, and which rules in {{CONTRIBUTOR_GUIDELINES}} on length, promotion, exclusivity and bylines it fails. Name each failure.
2. Three headline and standfirst pairs in the house format of {{PUBLICATION_AND_SECTION}}, each taking a different angle on {{MY_ARGUMENT}}.
3. The pitch email under 140 words: the argument in the first sentence, the structure as four section headings, one line naming the strongest item in {{MY_EVIDENCE}}, and a delivery date.
4. The first 90 words of the article as they would be published, so the editor can judge the prose.

Rules:
- The argument must be contestable. If no informed reader would dispute it, say so and write nothing else.
- Every claim in the sample opening must trace to {{MY_EVIDENCE}}. Where it cannot, write NEEDS EVIDENCE.
- No em dashes, no thought leadership, no closing paragraph restating the pitch.

Preencher antes de executar

Substitua cada espaço pelos seus próprios dados. Quanto mais específico for, menos o modelo inventa.

  • {{PUBLICATION_AND_SECTION}}
  • {{CONTRIBUTOR_GUIDELINES}}
  • {{RECENT_SECTION_ARTICLES}}
  • {{MY_ARGUMENT}}
  • {{MY_EVIDENCE}}

Como obter um resultado melhor

  1. Paste the guidelines rather than summarising them. The rules on promotion and exclusivity are where most contributed pitches die.
  2. The sample opening is the part an editor actually reads. If you would not publish those 90 words, do not send the pitch.
  3. If it tells you the argument is not contestable, that is why your last three pitches went unanswered.