The Economic Hardship Reporting Project seeks content writers

The Economic Hardship Reporting Project is looking for pitches for their feature stories, reported personal essays, op-eds and investigative pieces about economic inequality in America.

ABOUT THE COMPANY

The mission of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project is to change the national conversation surrounding poverty and economic insecurity. They endeavor to put a human face on financial instability. For more information, visit their website here.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Deborah Jian Lee, Editor at the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, is looking for pitches:

EHRP is always interested in stories where income inequality intersects with: religion, immigration, education, parenting/families, race, sexual orientation, gender identity, health, maternal health, disability, culture, housing, agriculture, aging, work, etc.

They are seeking narrative-driven first-person essays, reported features and op-eds tackling caregiving, parenting, queer/trans working class experience, reimagining capitalism, and vaccines from the POV of someone working in the service industry.

There is an interest for stories based in the Midwest and South and want to encourage BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, lower income folks, rural writers and others underrepresented in media to pitch me stories.

EHRP supports experienced independent journalists, photojournalists, radio journalists, documentary filmmakers, feature writers, documentary poets with great published work.

Submissions from abroad are fine, stories must focus on economic inequality in the U.S.

Please review the official submission guideline here and tip sheet here.

COMPENSATION

Pay: Roughly $1/word

Word count: Typically 600-1500 (we tend to top out at $2500 and 2500 words.)

Plus: You will be paid by the media partner, according to their rates.

CONTACT

To apply, please send all submissions to Deborah Jian Lee, Editor at the Economic Hardship Reporting Project:  deborah@economichardship.org.