New Year, New Jobs! These Pubs Want Your Pitches for 2025

Hello, travel writers,

We hope you’re deep in the throes of a do-nothing-but-relax holiday season, so we’ll keep it short. These pubs are all excitedly looking for your pitches when we return to work later this week! So go ahead and kick off 2025 in style by prepping your ideas and snagging those assignments.

✨ Don’t forget: You can still get 25% off ALL our offerings by using the code “BATW25OFF” — including e-books, individual courses, or the full suite — now through Jan. 2. And if you want to see more calls for pitches and job opportunities make sure to sign up for the BATW Job Board right now, which is updated daily with new opportunities!

And keep on scrolling for some big 2024 wins and great reads from the Be A Travel Writer community!

Calls for Pitches

World of Cruising: World of Cruising needs journalists familiar with wildlife/conservation, LGBTQ+ friendly cruise destinations, Cape Verde and the Windward Islands, Dominica SaintLucia and Trinidad and #Tobago. Email: [email protected] 

MIT Technology Review: MIT Technology Review welcomes pitches from freelance writers across a broad range of topics. We encourage writers of all skill levels, and from all backgrounds, to pitch us. We are especially interested in hearing from writers with backgrounds that are traditionally under-represented in technology and science journalism, and from outside the United States. See more. 

Book of the Month: Is looking for a freelance reader to help it discover and evaluate unexpected and innovative crime fiction novels. It’s looking for someone who is deep in the crime fiction world, but rarely reads the standard stuff that everyone already knows about. See more.

TODAY: Sent our a reminder that it’s always accepting non-holiday essays ... no deadline, email whenever! See more.

The Mood Mag: Submissions are OPEN for In The Mood Mag Issue 12: THE FUTURE until Jan 1! Send your expanded criticism on films, TV, or music videos set in/engaging with the future. See more.

Rest of World: Is looking for accessible and engaging, rigorously reported and fact-checked stories of between 800-1200 words. Props to stories containing on-the-ground reporting whenever possible, with memorable characters that help readers understand the nuance and complexity of issues related to technology, business, culture and geopolitics. See more.

TechRadar: Is looking for some new freelance news and feature writers in the US. If you love to write on a range of topics – from Phones to EVs and from Audio to Streaming, from Apple to Google, and from AI to entertainment and everything in between – this might be a fit. See more. 

Full-Time Job Openings

Dallas Morning News: The Dallas Morning News seeks an ambitious and versatile reporter to cover the important and often-changing airline industry. See more. 

CNN: Is hiring an Associate Writer, Markets & Finance for CNN Business who is responsible for reporting coverage of each day’s most essential markets and finance stories, delivering coverage of stocks, bonds, commodities, cryptocurrencies, ETFs and other markets news for CNN Business. See more.

People: Is hiring a Senior News Editor for the Style vertical will be responsible for coordinating closely with the Style & Beauty Director of the vertical to lead digital coverage for all things red carpet fashion, celebrity style and beauty on PEOPLE.com. See more.

Gothamist: The WNYC and Gothamist newsroom is seeking an ambitious, diligent and enterprising editor to lead our Economics & Equity team. This editor will oversee multiplatform journalists who cover issues directly related to affordability and quality of life in our area. See more.

Esquire: Esquire is seeking a thoughtful, creative thinker with serious story editing chops and a fountain of ideas to join our editorial team. You will assign and edit pieces ranging from quick-hit news to reviews, interviews, and zeitgeisty think pieces. You will also oversee the evergreen entertainment SEO initiative. See more. 

T Brand Studios: Is hiring a Tech Editor (for branded content) who will work in collaboration with its creative and production teams, leading editorial creation for multiple branded-content projects at once. See more.

SF Gate: SF Gate is hiring a Breaking News Editor who will lead SFGATE’s most timely coverage. The Breaking News Editor will edit multiple stories in a day, and sometimes juggle several assignments at once. See more.

2024 Stories We Love From the BATW Community!

Last week we asked you to share your 2024 wins with us — and you delivered! We are endlessly impressed and inspired by our students. We seriously could not stop smiling while reading through them all! Here are just a few:

Aaraf Adam interviewed Wicked’s Cynthia Ervio for Essence.

Marie Myung-Ok Lee explored South Korea through the lens of the popular K-Drama for The New York Times.

Karla Walsh penned the ultimate guide to her hidden-gem hometown for Travel + Leisure.

Kerri Allen launched her own travel Substack, Unpackd.

Ashley Martens wrote about an all-inclusive dude ranch in Montana for Matador Network.

You also told us about secured commissions for the new year, writers’ workshops abroad, trips to Saudi Arabia, Sardinia, Palm Springs, and beyond, and shared your big goals for 2025 — but more on that next newsletter.

Keep winning out there, travel writers!!! Go you!

See you in class,

Stacey & Nina