Pitches & Submissions

Editorial Guidelines

Red Canary Magazine is an independent publication launched in collaboration with award-winning journalist and writer Joe Donnelly committed to difference-making journalism focusing on the environment, social justice and sustainability. Though we cover urgent issues, we try to approach our mission with humor, hope and humility. Please refer to our Community Guidelines as well.

We are always looking for:

• Deeply reported long-form journalism
• Shorter, spotlight features
• Photographic or illustration-based essays
• Essays
• Op-ed
• Poetry
• Fiction
• Audio stories
• Films
• Multimedia stories

Before submitting your pitch, please become familiar with our publication and mission to ensure your pitch aligns. Also include links to your previously published work(s), your bio and any other relevant info that will help us get a better understanding of your connection to the piece that you are proposing.

Pitches and submissions can be sent to tracy@redcanarycollective.org

 

Editorial Independence Policy

As a nonprofit independent news organization, we accept gifts, grants and sponsorships from individuals and organizations for the general support of our activities, but our editorial decisions are made independently. We don’t tolerate interference with or accept favors for our coverage and maintain a firewall between our journalism and sources of revenue.

Acceptance of financial support does not constitute implied or actual endorsement of donors or their products, services or opinions.

We may consider donations to support broad areas of coverage, but our organization determines the stories we pursue and maintains the high standards with which we pursue them. We will cede no right of review or influence over editorial content, nor of unauthorized distribution of editorial content.

We will accept anonymous donations for general support only if it is clear that sufficient safeguards have been put into place that the expenditure of that donation is made independently by our organization and in compliance with Institute For Nonprofit News Membership Standards.