Suggestions for the VICE Life Desk in terms of pitching
By Meredith Balkus, Amy Rose Spiegel, FEET PUMPERS and Casey Johnston.
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We are who?
The VICE Life office covers topics such as cash, wealth, wellness, gender, relationships, drugs, and drinking. In short-form blogs, first-person news, service-focused guides, and authentic reported pieces, as well as essential brand sequence that tap into the undercurrents of health, work, and relationships, we cover technological research, recent events, trends, and adult perspectives. We question and consider critically how and why we live the way that we do as we discover identification, decision, link, power relationships, and social development downward to the individual level.
Our audience are passionate, perplexed, humorous, fact-driven, and rational about the numerous methods people currently live. The youthful and pleasantly foolish require and earn the advice, information, and hurt lowering we can offer.
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What do we seek? Additionally, we accept lengthy functions and quick-turnaround bloggers. We adore a great explainer, thus we'd ask that you check whether your certain area of interest has already been carefully covered by VICE because we already have a fairly strong body of them.
We are mainly interested in mid-length ( 700 to 2000 expression) classic studies, reported essays, and storyline features as well as services media designed to assist readers in understanding how we live today, with particular attention given to how we relate to one another, the globe, and ourselves.We welcome reports and media that are informed by personal encounters and understanding( though in the case of a item that concentrates entirely on these elements, we ask the author to take time to consider what makes this history special, why they are the right choice to tell it at this moment, and why it should be told at VICE). Although a timely element can help distinguish a pitch, not all stories need to be pegged to current events.
What subjects do we cover?
The life desk of VICE's Life examines issues of social and political health, identity, well-being, sex and sexuality, race, class, work, money, inequality, education, relationships of all kinds, friendship, love, dating, drug, alcohol, sobriety, etiquette, partying, community-building, family, civic engagement, and the lived realities of sociopolitical issues, especially as they are experienced by those they directly affect.Here are some successful stories that fit these topics.
journalism of service
Some Tips for avoiding using party drugs excessivelyA Beginner's Guide for" Straight" Women Who Want to Act in Queer Ambitions
Self-care Advice for Black People Who Are Really Going Through It
How to Talk About Antifa with Those Who Are Confused About It
How to Kick Out Your Terrible Roommate Without Being a Jerk
A Practical Guide for Getting Bystanders to Help Without Calling Police
30 Non-Boring Activities for a Crush or Partner
How to Work from Home Without Feeling Like a Lone Garbage Slug
Reports
The Little Red Dots Say," Let's Forget This Ever Happened!"Shantay, You Pay: How to Pay for a Drag Race Showcase Inside the High Costs of Participation
What It's Like to Disconnect with a Sex Worker You Fell For
Housemates ' Stories of Hooking Up While Isolating at Home Together
Reading Reddit drama aids some users in leaving unhappy relationships
Inside the Black Moms and Babies ' Fight to Protect
Asexual People Explain What Their Romantic Lives Are Like
The term" Latinx" Is Another Form of Erasure for Some Black People.
Commentaries and essays
How Microdosing Testosterone Modified My LifeGetting" California Sober" Showed Me a Kinder, Gentler Way to Do Drugs
I Express My Grief By Wearing Excessive Makeup To Get People To See Me.
I questioned My Crushes about why they wouldn't sleep with me.
Native American is not my race; it's who I am.
I Was A Trans Comedian, I. Why I Quit, See Why?
My New Definition of Sexual Freedom Is" Pro Hoe."
We publish editorial series that freelancers are welcome to pitch into, in addition to one-off stories.
Best You've Ever Had: Advice on how to enjoy great sex. This collection of service pieces addresses the practical aspects of hooking up, providing readers with conversational, inclusive, medically precise, and energizing advice in the manner of "how to."
A Beginner's Guide to Squirting
How to Talk Dirty Without Feeling False
How to Make Masturbation More Enjoyable
How to Prepare Your Butt for All-Of-Type Anal Sex
The Top 10 Rules as a Trans Girl
A Beginner's Guide to Sex Parties
How to Watch Porn for the First Time with Your Partner
This Is How We Do It: A series about sex and stigma. This interview series speaks to people whose experiences of sex are often underdiscussed because of their embodiment, neurodiversity, or other conditions that inform how their sexuality is perceived in the wider culture.
I have herpes. How Does This Impact My Sexual Life
We are ADHD. This Is the Sex of Our Lives.
Both of my arms are missing. This light, freewheeling service series concentrates on the myriad methods there are for feeling less alone, more prepared, and foxier in mind and body ( whatever a reader's body and mind are like ). How I Have Sex Is How I Do It.
I'm a Young Person. How We Have Sex, Here's How.
How to Be Hot: It’s not a set of rules-it’s a state of mind. This Is How We Have Sex
He is on the autism spectrum, and I have Tourette's. My husband is a standard-sized man.
The Perfect Way to Flirt From a Distance, A Guide to Eyefucking,
How to Talk Fun Crushes in a Relationship Without Making Friends?
How to Flirt on Dating Apps Without Disposing of Your Phone in the Toilet
How to Keep Your Sex Life Afloat with a Low Sodium
How to Really Enjoy Someone Who Has Fetish Foot?
What do we lack in our search?
- carries, for example, arbitrary and/or unintelligent opinion pieces that don't have any connection to any kind of research or reporting.Anything that cannot be verified for accuracy.
- Articles that don't provide any kind of aggregation or additive analysis.
- General enters the following categories: slut-shaming, street harassment, or weight loss
- Pseudoscience or the majority of popular science, unless it is accompanied by a critique ( which we adore )
- Stories based on outdated, animal-tested, or shoddy studies without any supporting evidence or context.
- Oral histories
- Interviews with "experts" created by their publicists
- Anything that gives TERFs some cred or support.
- Stories written by people outside of a particular community or identity
- Trend reports that don't incorporate any kind of insightful, research-based cultural commentary or that rely on hazy "people are saying"-style rhetoric to avoid having to take a stand are considered.
- Stories that make their points on "problematic" cultural goods or practices without providing any meaningful context or analysis.
- Sexually incorrect approaches ( or any other subject matter relevant to physicality )
How to pitch us:
Email lifestyle. Please include" PITCH:" in the subject line of your email, followed by a suggested headline, at pitches@vice .com. Make sure your pitch includes the following information to ensure your idea has the best chance of being taken into account:- An idea of the people you would approach.
What piece length do you envision?
- The day you would be able to deliver a draft by.
What time frames, if any, would we need to be aware of to ensure the story publishes at the right time?
- Links to important pieces of literature that have already been published
We may not be able to respond to every email because of the volume of pitches we receive, but if your pitch strikes us as a potential match, we'll contact you within a week ( or sooner, especially in regards to timely pitches ).
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