How to pitch feature ideas to the national press

Masterclass on Wednesday 29th May at 1pm to paid subscribers with a live features meetings - bring your ideas.

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I have worked as a journalist for nearly 30 years and I’ve been on both sides of freelance journalism - being pitched at by freelance journalists and pitching to features editors.

I am back to freelancing again and this month, I’ve had my features in both The Telegraph and The Guardian. Someone in our community asked me how I pitch so I thought it would be useful to create a ‘masterclass’ about how I do it and then have a live brainstorm and ‘features meeting’ like I used to have when I worked on Psychologies magazine.

In this 60 minute masterclass, I will teach you everything I know about pitching an article and then we’ll have a freelance features meeting so bring any ideas.

In this masterclass we will discuss:

• What publication and slot to pitch to?

• Who is the audience?

• Who to pitch to and how to get your ideas to them

• What’s your idea?

• What’s the hook?

• How to present your pitch?

We will then have a live features meeting so we will go through some ideas - so bring your ideas.

See you at 1pm.

Here’s the Zoom link: