Writer

Looking for quality long-form non fiction character driven pitches/pieces for new magazine, Switchboard. Writer will be paid a flat fee, travel is covered, and writers will split any options/backend that come from their piece, 50/50 with us. Particularly interested in strong characters, true crime, political drama, nostalgia.

Examples of the kinds of stories/pieces we’re looking for:

https://www.curbed.com/article/christmas-tree-trade-secrets-gregs-trees-nyc.html
https://www.jezebel.com/inside-the-rainbow-gulag-the-technicolor-rise-and-fall-1179495705
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-08-26/famous-weight-loss-program-camp-shane-s-epic-succession-drama?srnd=businessweek-v2
https://www.esquire.com/sports/a36439323/daddy-ball-long-island-youth-baseball-rivalry/
https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/just-desserts/
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a34773551/prison-break-lovebirds/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-06-15/airbnb-spends-millions-making-nightmares-at-live-anywhere-rentals-go-away
https://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/February-2019/Bicycle-Bank-Robber-Tom-Justice/
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/23/the-maraschino-moguls-secret-life
https://epicmagazine.com/argo/
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/peter-stein-nyc-lifeguards.html
https://www.mensjournal.com/entertainment/coal-disaster-killing-scores-rural-americans
https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/hit-man-2/
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/06/rare-nintendo-atari-games-stolen
https://www.theverge.com/c/22889425/susy-thunder-headley-hackers-phone-phreakers-claire-evans
https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/midnight-in-the-garden-of-east-texas/
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/michelledean/dee-dee-wanted-her-daughter-to-be-sick-gypsy-wanted-her-mom#.wiMlY5rJY