P ILOT TEST — NOT YET ACTIVE
Community media needs community writers and media producers. Look around your experiences and ask, “What stories do others need to read?”
And then answer by writing a Story Pitch.
Please complete the “Story Pitch” form below to submit an article idea that you would like to write for The Mountaineer. Stories can be news (impartial) or a well-grounded opinion. Photos, video and audio are encouraged.
Keep the story pitch to three or four sentences. These three prompts are a good guide for what to include:
1) What your story will be about.
Freelance writers often include the first line of their proposed story, plus a brief treatment of the story. What angle do you plan to take, who will you interview, in what stance or voice (informative or personal, analysis or persuasion) will you write it?
2) Why this story is important or interesting to readers.
Help to convince the editor to assign this story to the current story budget by explaining how relevant it is to the publication’s readership.
3) Why you’re the best person to write it.
Your expertise, your access to the story, your ability to connect the story to the reader, you prior professional experience.
