Eater is for individuals who care about the place they eat. By way of our intensive reporting on eating places and bars, we imagine meals is tradition, id, and neighborhood — and the place you eat issues. Our protection is approachable and enjoyable, but additionally discerning and skeptical. We lead with humor, style, and integrity. Our experience is our largest power, however we stay curious and related to the tradition we cowl. Eater doesn’t simply inform you what to care about — we inform you why.
We’re actively looking for pitches from journalists, writers, teachers, and different contributors of all backgrounds, particularly these whose voices are sometimes underrepresented in media. The hospitality and meals industries are among the many most dynamic and highly effective lenses for storytelling, and we notably get pleasure from listening to from writers whose pursuits, experiences, and areas of experience originate exterior of the meals world.
All accepted tales undergo a collaborative editorial course of, and all are paid at aggressive charges.
Throughout the board, we’re searching for pitches that give a transparent, concise abstract of the topic, angle, or thesis of the proposed piece, and your anticipated story construction.
We’re searching for pitches that include solutions, not questions. (Or, if you happen to don’t have solutions but, an evidence of why you don’t — and the explanation shouldn’t be “I haven’t began the reporting.”) Your pitch also needs to serve for instance of your writing model and tone. Please familiarize your self with our archives to get a way of the sort of tales we publish.
We’re NOT searching for: cooking/meals present recaps, stunt items, defenses of particular weight loss plan and wellness practices, linear travelogues, eating opinions, private essays, or dwelling cooking content material.
All submissions ought to embody a brief rationalization of who you might be and why you’re certified to cowl this story, together with hyperlinks to beforehand printed items and/or your on-line portfolio. We recognize all pitches and intention to answer each as quickly as potential. Observe that we do typically obtain pitches which can be related to one another or to our present assignments. If we’re eager about your pitch, we’ll focus on charges, deadlines, scope, kill charges (if relevant), and different expectations with you up entrance. We’ll additionally focus on potential bills, journey, or dangers, and supply press credentials when crucial. All accepted tales are paid at aggressive charges based mostly on the scope and kind of labor. We don’t settle for pitches or work created with generative AI; extra details about our AI coverage may be discovered within the Eater ethics assertion.
Developments and Experiences: Eater assigns authentic, reported tales, that are often assigned with a lead time of some days to a number of weeks. Editors are notably eager about tendencies as they pertain to eating places and bars. These could possibly be tendencies in menu, design, service format, and past, however ideally that pitch ought to establish at the very least three stable examples and supply a case for why or what it says about the best way we dine proper now. Past that, reviews may embody all the things from food world curiosities to the place meals intersects with tradition at giant. We’re notably eager about tales that heart staff and underrepresented communities. Pitches mustn’t solely establish an fascinating matter, however supply some case-making round its place in historical past or tradition and a thesis or forward-thinking assertion. Ship pitches to editor@eater.com.
Journey: Eater Journey focuses on fascinating methods during which meals and tradition intersect to offer perception and perspective on locations, each domestically within the U.S. and around the globe. The best story feels related and fascinating to a broad viewers of readers who haven’t any private plans to go to that vacation spot. We’re most eager about items and views from locals and natives, or individuals with a deep connection to the tradition being lined; we’re usually not eager about parachute journalism, and particularly not tales reported throughout one’s trip. Usually, journey pitches ought to conform to the above story tips for tendencies and reviews. Ship pitches to journey@eater.com.
Video: Eater accepts pitches for video content material from freelance filmmakers and video producers with expertise in storytelling and dealing in a collaborative surroundings. Superb pitches include sturdy storylines and deep perception backed by an authoritative meals voice. We’re extra more likely to inexperienced gentle one-off/characteristic content material that aligns with our present collection programming, versus pitches for hosted/new series-based content material. All movies ought to work throughout a number of platforms together with YouTube, Fb, Instagram, and TikTok. To submit: Please ship your video pitch together with hyperlinks to earlier work to manufacturing@eater.com.
Visuals: Eater works with freelance photographers, illustrators, and designers for a lot of our written work, together with journey packages, reported packages, explainers, and options. We’re at all times making an attempt to develop our roster of photographers and visible artists and are open to receiving portfolios for consideration for future tasks. To submit: Please ship hyperlinks to your work to visuals@eater.com.
Regional Eating Workforce: Involved in writing an article or map for a particular Eater metropolis? Right here is the place to ship pitches for every of Eater’s metropolis websites — we suggest clicking into every metropolis pitch information for specifics on what that native web site is searching for.
If we determine to work with you, you’ll obtain an settlement with key phrases clearly outlined, sometimes despatched by our freelance administration platform referred to as Worksuite. By way of the modifying course of, we imagine clear, considerate communication is each our duty and yours. Freelancers are anticipated to observe each Eater’s assertion of ethics and our Vox Media Values, which incorporates collaborating effectively and giving and receiving suggestions respectfully. We additionally observe these requirements: Should you expertise an issue working with us, we encourage you to debate it along with your editor or our authorized workforce. We additionally supply a hotline for reporting considerations about conduct anonymously.
We offer edited drafts earlier than publication, and decide to appropriately credit score all contributors. After publication, we pay in a well timed method in accordance along with your settlement (sometimes inside 30 days through the Worksuite platform), together with reimbursement for any agreed-upon bills.
By submitting a pitch to Vox Media, you acknowledge that your pitch could also be related or similar to content material submitted by others, or to supplies developed by or on behalf of Vox Media and that it shall have the best to make use of such different content material or supplies with none obligation to you. Neither the submission of your pitch nor Vox Media’s evaluation of it constitutes or creates an implied contract or different monetary or confidential relationship between you and Vox Media. You shall haven’t any proper to compensation or reimbursement of any form by Vox Media in reference to the submission of your pitch. If and when Vox Media elects to proceed and assign work to you based mostly in your pitch, the phrases of any such project shall be topic to a separate settlement between you and Vox Media. Vox Media has no obligation to evaluation, hold, or return any supplies you submit.
