Ask TON: Breaking into science writing | Welcome back for another installment of Ask TON. (Click here to see previous installments.) Today’s question: I’m a new science writer and I have very few published clips. What types of stories, and what types of venues (or specific ones) are best for someone like me to pitch to?
And what are some good strategies for finding ideas that won’t be pitched by a ton of other writers? Maggie Koerth-Baker, freelance journalist and author; science editor, BoingBoing.net: Start by pitching the short stuff and the newsy stuff — less-than-1,000-word departments in the fronts of magazines or at online sites, daily news sites like National Geographic News, that kind of thing. As for finding stories, there are a couple of things that worked for me, in the beginning. Devote a couple of hours over two or three weeks to paying attention to which press releases from the big email lists (EurekAlert and the like) get picked up by EVERYBODY and which don’t.
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