Pitching to The Glasgow Wrap: How to get published in our Sunday Edition
We want your Glasgow stories!
The Glasgow Wrap is looking for talented local journalists and writers to contribute to our long read, the Sunday Edition. Each week we publish a captivating, in-depth and hyper-local story about Glasgow, free from ads, clickbait, hyperbole, auto-playing videos and all the other digital clutter inundating our local news landscape. If you’re a fan of The Wrap and want to contribute, here’s a handy guide to what we’re looking for with contact details below.
What makes a good fit for the Sunday Edition?
The ethos of The Glasgow Wrap is to bring back to local news something that’s been lost. Between shrinking newsrooms and centralised ownership, the line between ads and editorial is blurring as papers struggle to monetise in the digital era. With the Sunday Edition, we want to bring our subscribers a well-written, entertaining and fresh story about the city each week to complement the free daily curation newsletter.
We want scoops, features, essays, explainers, analysis – all-around good reportage with prose that makes the story sing. Stories must be well-researched, captivating, interesting and new, or told in a unique way. What will our subscribers get from the piece? Will they learn something, be entertained, inspired, or gain perspective?
The Sunday Edition is not confined to any topic but pitches must be for local Glasgow stories only. Pitches for stories that have been done before or feel too commercial are not what we’re after. Stories with people at the heart of them are. Anything to do with history, culture, architecture, planning and development, education, health, local politics, inequality, grassroots organisations (you get the gist) is also welcomed.
Our editor, Marissa MacWhirter, is also happy to work with reporters on larger stories and scoops to help shape them for our readers.
Fees & how to pitch
Sunday Edition pieces start at around 1,000 words. They must be well-written and researched with accurate spelling and grammar. Fees are agreed with writers when the story is commissioned and range depending on the depth and quality of the story.
Email your ideas to marissa.macwhirter@newsquest.co.uk . Responses can take up to one week. Please include a few sentences about the idea and how you plan to tackle it (style, research, angle) and why our readers will love it. Please include a few links to samples of your work.
I look forward to hearing your ideas!
