Global English-language daily covering news, politics, culture, and environment. Accepts pitches and opinion pieces across its UK, US, and Australia editions.

Guardian News & Media (GNM) publishes theguardian.com, one of the world’s leading English-language newspaper websites. It also has a presence in the US and Australia as Guardian US and Guardian Australia. Traffic from outside of the UK now represents around two-thirds of the Guardian’s total digital audience. In the UK, GNM publishes the Guardian newspaper six days a week, first published in 1821.

The Guardian is renowned for its agenda-setting journalism including, most recently the Cambridge Analytica, Paradise and Panama Papers investigations as well as the Pulitzer Prize and Emmy-winning NSA revelations.

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We welcome your pitches to Guardian Opinion – it’s best to send them via email, to opinion@theguardian.com.<div><br></div><div>We receive hundreds of pitches a day, so we can’t get back to every email unfortunately, but there are some simple things you can do to maximise your chances of being published.</div><div><br></div><div><b>1) Don’t send fully written pieces</b></div><div>It can be tempting, when you have an idea, to write the whole piece, and send it over, but it’s very rare for us to publish a piece in these circumstances. This is because editors like to work closely and carefully with a writer to determine the best length and focus for a piece. In some cases, we will already have published other pieces on the subject you’d like to write about, so we will only commission you if your piece can explore a specific element of the story that has yet to be considered. When an article has been written on spec, this early stage conversation between an editor and writer isn’t possible.</div><div><br></div><div><b>2) Send over one idea at a time, two at the most</b></div><div>When there are more ideas than that in an email – we’ve been known to receive emails with 20 ideas – it can feel as if we’re being sent a round robin, as if the ideas haven’t been developed with our section specifically in mind. If you send over a single idea, it makes it much easier for us to consider it properly, and get back to you.</div><div><br></div><div><b>3) Keep it fairly short, and simple</b></div><div>Pitches for a 700-800 word column (the average length of our pieces) don’t need to be more than a few paragraphs long. We’re just looking for an outline of what you’d like to write about, including a description of the argument you would be making, plus any details that help bring the subject to life and explain why it’s important for us to cover it.</div><div><br></div><div><b>4) Explain why this piece needs to be written right now</b></div><div>Most of the pieces that we run on Guardian Opinion are news reactive, so they respond to a specific news story that has recently broken. The news story is the “peg” for the column – the reason why this is a pressing issue that readers need to hear more about. Occasionally, an opinion will be so interesting that we’ll run it without a specific news peg. But those occasions are pretty rare.</div><div><br></div><div><b>5) Explain why you’re the right person to write this piece</b></div><div>Perhaps you’re an expert in the particular subject you’d like to write about, or you have a personal story that will bring readers new insight into an aspect of the day’s news. You might work in an industry that has just been the subject of a breaking story, and want to opine on it. Make sure to tell us, in your email, why you’re the right person to write this particular story. It’s also worth mentioning, briefly, any writing experience you’ve had in the past, but don’t be put off pitching us a piece simply because you haven’t been published before. We take many pieces from first-time writers, because they’ve been exactly the right person to write the column in question. In fact, those have often proved some of our liveliest pieces.</div><div><br></div><div><b>6) Give a clear description of the piece you’re pitching in the email subject line</b></div><div>It is not helpful to simply write “column pitch”, because your email will arrive in our inbox alongside hundreds of other emails with exactly the same subject line. A few precise words on exactly what you’re interested in writing about make it much more likely that an interested editor will be able to find your pitch, later in the day, when they have a chance to get back to you.</div>

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If you want to offer us a contribution you should consider which section of the newspapers or websites is most likely to be interested. Contact the commissioning editor for this section - ideally by phone or email - and briefly outline your idea.<div><br></div><div>The commissioning editor may offer to “take a look” at your proposed contribution. This means that you are invited to submit it speculatively and you will be paid only if your contribution is published.</div><div><br></div><div>Unless you are already an established contributor, it is most unlikely that the editor will “order” or commission a contribution from you.</div><div><br></div><div>Please do not send pictures or artwork unless we request them. We do not accept responsibility for loss of unsolicited prints, transparencies, etc.</div><div><br></div><div>Contributions should be sent to us electronically. Other methods are possible - but only in exceptional circumstances.</div><div><br></div><div>We publish contributions from all freelances on our standard copyright terms and payment is at our normal rates, unless agreed otherwise before publication.</div><div><br></div><div>For more information, see our Freelance Charter: https://www.theguardian.com/info/guardian-news-media-freelance-charter</div>

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<div><span style="color: rgb(20 20 20/var(--tw-text-opacity,1));">The Guardian's US edition – headquartered in New York City, with growing bureaus in Washington DC and Los Angeles – is an entirely digital operation that combines the best of the Guardian's international reporting with US voices and expertise. Core coverage areas include the climate emergency, economic and racial inequality, wellness, culture, digital privacy and sports – all highlighting the Guardian's distinctive role within the US media landscape: journalism that's global, independent, and free.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Guardian is seeking a scoop-driven enterprise reporter to cover the White House, based in Washington, DC. The ideal candidate will have a deep network of sources in Washington, including inside the current administration, and a proven record of breaking agenda-setting news. This position reports to the political enterprise editor. Our newsroom strives to tell thorough, nuanced stories that resonate with a global audience.</div><div><br></div><div>Department: Editorial</div><div><br></div><div>Reports to: Political Enterprise Editor</div><div><br></div><div>Location: Washington, D.C.</div><div><br></div><div>Hybrid/Remote/In-Person: Hybrid</div><div><br></div><div>Terms and conditions: Full time, Permanent, News Media Guild position</div><div><br></div><div>Annual Salary: $120,000 - 160,000</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Key Responsibilities</b></div><div><ul><li>Deliver ambitious stories and analysis on Trump's agenda and the inner workings of his administration. The ideal reporter is versatile and able to execute a range of stories, from fast-paced enterprise news to investigative, in-depth stories and profiles of key players.</li><li>Stay on top of the big developments at the White House that are important to the Guardian audience, and contribute to the White House daily press coverage from the Guardian's DC bureau.</li><li>An ability to follow the money driving administration policies and decisions and determine who is benefitting.</li><li>An ability to tell stories that happen after the lights go off in the briefing room.</li></ul></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Compensation and Benefits</b></div><div><ul><li>25 days of vacation leave in addition to 12 company holidays</li><li>Unlimited sick time</li><li>Employee Assistance Programs</li><li>401(k) Match</li><li>Subsidized healthcare coverage including medical, vision, and dental</li><li>Medical and Dependent Flexible Spending Accounts</li><li>Generous parental leave with 100% pay</li><li>Long Term and Short Term Disability insurance</li><li>Life insurance</li><li>Commuter benefits</li><li>Work/Life balance: Flexible hybrid schedule</li></ul></div><div><br></div><div><b>Culture &amp; Wellbeing</b></div><div>We want everyone to feel like they belong at the Guardian and we champion diversity of thought. You will also have the opportunity to hear unique insight from our journalists in our morning conference, a live discussion on the news story of the day.</div><div><br></div><div>We offer great tools to help you prioritize your wellbeing including access to Employee Assistance Programs.</div>

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All of our stories have a strong personal, social, political or historical angle, and a timely reason for covering the topic. We’re a newspaper, not a music magazine, so in order to cover relatively niche artists/scenes etc, there needs to be a topical or human element that will give it appeal to the breadth of our readership, not just music fans.<div><br></div><div>Our stories are also rich with expertise—describing the music and the effect it has with precision—but they have to be accessible to people who don’t follow music as closely as writers do. They’re packed with the colourful details that make a piece sing, and which can tell a story more effectively than the facts. We want fun, crisp, clever, well-reported ideas.</div><div><br></div><div>Things we’re looking for</div><div>Artist profiles</div><div><br></div><div>Generally it’s not worth pitching A-list names, unless you’ve somehow managed to secure time with someone who never talks to the press. We tend to run interviews with artists around album or comeback track releases — something to make it feel newsworthy and of the moment. Unfortunately we don’t have space to profile many artists who are right at the start of their career—there needs to be some kind of momentum around them. But if a smaller artist’s album picks up traction, we might profile them down the line—around the beginning of a tour, say.</div><div><br></div><div>As for pitching, it’s not enough to say “X is interesting”, or “Y is successful/hyped” — you need to have a take on what the latest shift in their career says about where they’re at creatively or personally, or what they represent about what’s going on in the industry, or why their new work is in sync with something happening in society. We need to know from your pitch that you’re interested in going beyond the biography: tell us the question you’re going to ask them that they’ve never been asked, the one that will cast their story in a new light.</div><div><br></div>

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