It's beyond frustrating as a freelancer to submit or pitch a story, only for the outlet to run a different version written by it's staffers a couple weeks later, but it happens all the timepic.twitter.com/SZS98gfbMs
1. I didn't notice this email because it doesn't say anywhere that it was a pitch, it looks like a press release. How is the recipient supposed to know what it is? You don't ID yourself or even ask anything of the editors. 2. This was sent on 1/10...
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even if I had noticed that it was a pitch, it's not possible that we stole your idea. Would be impossible for us to put together a 9,000 word investigation in 12 days. Our story notes some of the interviews were done in December. I deeply sympathize with...
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...how hard it is to be a freelancer. In that vein, some advice: put "pitch" or some such in the subject line, and open the email with: who you are, who you've written for and what you want to write. We need context to distinguish it from the pile of spam we get from PR folks
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Could you put Mike's article on the site as well? Can't tell from the screencap but it's possible he covered races yall didn't, which would be nice to learn about.
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Here's his piece, which I found on his TL, and yeah, he def covered races we didn't hit: http://therealnews.com/t2/story:20910:Democrats-Openly-Back-Establishment-Candidates-for-2018-Primaries … RTing it now
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Thanks! Both of you!
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