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Pitch the Huffington Post-no money, just eyes


USA Today carried a superduper secret today, one that all freelance writers ache to find once they’ve identified a market for which they want to write: information on where to send a pitch.

The Huffington Post doesn’t include this email address anywhere on the site, at least not where I could find it.  And, once I found it in the article, I googled it and again, it didn’t turn up anywhere except in the USA Today article.

So – what is it?

Most bloggers (you have to be invited in or ask to be invited via pitch@huffingtonpost.com) get a password that allows them access to the site. Some non-techies use other methods. Actor Alec Baldwin faxes his stuff in. Late historian Arthur Schlesinger used to call Huffington and dictate.

Go forth and multiple those pitches, bloggers.

P.S. – as you might imagine, there’s no money in it.  But the HuffPo is around #5 on most “most read blog” lists.  Lots of eyes glossing over the screen at your words and thoughts.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:37 pm September 26th, 2007 in Blogging, Politics, Writing 

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5 Responses to “Pitch the Huffington Post-no money, just eyes”

  1. 1 Keith on September 26th, 2007 8:39 pm

    So Jill, should I be looking for you over at HuffPo? If you make it, let us know.

    I started a regular blog called “Bad American:”
    http://badamerican.wordpress.com/

    I’ll never be on HuffPo ’cause I’m so bad :)

  2. 2 Jill Miller Zimon on September 26th, 2007 9:41 pm

    I’m going to try sometime, I’m sure! Thanks for the vote of confidence.

    Whatever happened at the high school? I hate when the news flags something as an alert and then no follow up. Drives me nuts.

    I’ll blogroll and RSS feed your new space! – looking forward to checking it out.

  3. 3 Keith on September 28th, 2007 2:32 pm

    Oh, OK, sorry. No news there other than rumors were flying about other security breaches at Chardon High School, all of which seem to be totally unfounded and the result of some overactive imaginations. Most likely the whole thing was a prank.

    I try not to blog about these things because I don’t want to give the pranksters any more ink than they’re already getting. The local papers didn’t do anything with the story either and I think that is part of the feeling around here that unless there is any real threat, injury or attack it won’t get covered. I think you’ll probably find a lot of school systems are asking the media to do the same.

  4. 4 Robert Gum on December 6th, 2007 9:43 pm

    I would appreciate receiving an appropriate address to which I could send this comment.

    The former head of the Federal Reserve said there would be no housing bubble. The housing credit crisis was building up as he said it.

    Only one man in the financial community knew this was coming. He acted accordingly and his hedge fund prospered enormously.

    I would like to see this one blogged.

    Perhaps the Federal Chairman should be given the opportunity in self-defense to redefine “blogged” just as presidents have redefined “sex” and “torture”.

  5. 5 Jill Miller Zimon on December 6th, 2007 10:36 pm

    Mr. Gum – I really don’t know to what you’re referring, but your IP info indicates you may be from China or Australia! So I have to say, are you talking about the USA’s head of the Fed? current? former?

    Here’s a place to start. After that, you’ll have to google etc. Good luck.

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