Pitches Wanted (Child Care)

The Better Life Lab is seeking pitches from journalists / artists looking to tell more of the child care story. We pay for stories and will help with placement. Details below and we encourage you to apply! The Better Life Lab is commissioning a series of reported, data and character-driven written, video and/or graphic stories and illustrations that highlight innovations within the child care field. We will help pitch the stories to a wide variety of media outlets to reach broad audiences. Specifically, we are interested in uncovering examples of ways in which local governments, organizations, movements and others are attempting to improve our current broken, patchwork child care system to increase families' access to affordable, quality care and improve wages, benefits and working conditions for the care workforce. This can include anything from nontraditional care systems, family, community and neighborhood efforts, to improvements in day-to-day activities to local and state governmental changes in funding, subsidies and regulations.The Better Life Lab will pay reporters and writers and work with you to place the story in an ideal publication. Please send pitches to Rebecca Gale at gale@newamerica.org or Brigid Schulte at schulte@newamerica.org. Pitches will be considered and stories commissioned on a rolling basis through spring of 2023, with a payment of between $500 to $1000 per piece.

Submissions: Rebecca Gale at gale@newamerica.org or Brigid Schulte at schulte@newamerica.org