Pitch Database
To tell a compelling story to readers, you first need to sell it to an editor. This database contains dozens of successful feature pitches to a wide range of publications, each with a link to the corresponding published story, and many with additional annotations by the writers. To submit pitches for this database, please contact us.
| 1. Title → “Convincing the Public to Accept New Medical Guidelines” |
| Publisher: Miller-McCune |
| Writer: Christie Aschwanden |
| Year: 2010 |
| Tags:Miller-McCune, Aschwanden, 2010 |
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| 2. Title → “The Top Athletes Looking for an Edge and the Scientists Trying to Stop Them” |
| Publisher: Smithsonian |
| Writer: Christie Aschwanden |
| Year: 2012 |
| Tags:Smithsonian, Aschwanden, 2012 |
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| 3. Title → “Dating Duo Illuminates Modern Humans’ Journey” |
| Publisher: Science |
| Writer: Michael Balter |
| Year: 2011 |
| Tags:Science, Balter, 2011 |
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| 4. Title → “Was North Africa the Launch Pad for Modern Human Migrations?” |
| Publisher: Science |
| Writer: Michael Balter |
| Year: 2011 |
| Tags:Science, Balter, 2011 |
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| 5. Title → “Bullets, Bombs and Butterflies” |
| Publisher: North Carolina Wildlife |
| Writer: T. DeLene Beeland |
| Year: 2011 |
| Tags:North Carolina Wildlife, Beeland, 2011 |
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| 6. Title → “Saving Ethiopia’s ‘Church Forests’” |
| Publisher: PLoS Blogs |
| Writer: T. DeLene Beeland |
| Year: 2011 |
| Tags:PLoS Blogs, Beeland, 2011 |
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| 7. Title → “Surgery for Obese Children?” |
| Publisher: New York Times |
| Writer: Laura Beil |
| Year: 2010 |
| Tags:New York Times, Beil, 2010 |
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| 8. Title → “The Magic Bullet for Prostate Cancer” |
| Publisher: Men’s Health |
| Writer: Laura Beil |
| Year: 2011 |
| Tags:Men’s Health, Beil, 2011 |
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| 9. Title → “Thugs [Act Two: Lifers]“ |
| Publisher: This American Life |
| Writer: Laura Beil |
| Year: 2011 |
| Tags:This American Life, Beil, 2011 |
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| 10. Title → “Massive Biometric Project Gives Millions of Indians an ID” |
| Publisher: Wired |
| Writer: Vince Beiser |
| Year: 2011 |
| Tags:Wired, Beiser, 2011 |
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| 11. Title → “Death in the Pot” |
| Publisher: Lapham’s Quarterly |
| Writer: Deborah Blum |
| Year: 2011 |
| Tags:Lapham’s Quarterly, Blum, 2011 |
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| 12. Title → “Mirror Life” |
| Publisher: Wired |
| Writer: John Bohannon |
| Year: 2010 |
| Tags:Wired, Bohannon, 2010 |
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| 13. Title → “What’s So Hot about Chili Peppers?” |
| Publisher: Smithsonian |
| Writer: Brendan Borrell |
| Year: 2009 |
| Tags:Smithsonian, Borrell, 2009 |
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| 14. Title → “Mountains to Climb” |
| Publisher: Nature Medicine |
| Writer: Brendan Borrell |
| Year: 2010 |
| Tags:Nature Medicine, Borrell, 2010 |
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| 15. Title → “Treating an Illness Is One Thing. What About a Patient With Many?” |
| Publisher: New York Times |
| Writer: Siri Carpenter |
| Year: 2009 |
| Tags:New York Times, Carpenter, 2009 |
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| 16. Title → “A Botox Gap in Understanding Emotion” |
| Publisher: Los Angeles Times |
| Writer: Siri Carpenter |
| Year: 2010 |
| Tags:Los Angeles Times, Carpenter, 2010 |
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| 17. Title → “At Trading Crossroads, Permafrost Yields Siberian Secrets” |
| Publisher: New York Times |
| Writer: Charles Choi |
| Year: 2004 |
| Tags:New York Times, Choi, 2004 |
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| 18. Title → “Looking This Way and That, and Learning to Adapt to the World” |
| Publisher: New York Times |
| Writer: Charles Choi |
| Year: 2010 |
| Tags:New York Times, Choi, 2010 |
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| 19. Title → “Buried Answers” |
| Publisher: New York Times Magazine |
| Writer: David Dobbs |
| Year: 2005 |
| Tags:New York Times Magazine, Dobbs, 2005 |
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| 20. Title → “The Orchid Children” |
| Publisher: Atlantic |
| Writer: David Dobbs |
| Year: 2009 |
| Tags:Atlantic, Dobbs, 2009 |
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| 21. Title → “Lights, Camera, Infection” |
| Publisher: Nature |
| Writer: Jeanne Erdmann |
| Year: 2009 |
| Tags:Nature, Erdmann, 2009 |
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| 22. Title → “New Breast Surgery Comes with Choices” |
| Publisher: Cure |
| Writer: Jeanne Erdmann |
| Year: 2010 |
| Tags:Cure, Erdmann, 2010 |
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| 23. Title → “Vehicle-to-Grid: A New Spin on Car Payments” |
| Publisher: Miller-McCune |
| Writer: Dan Ferber |
| Year: 2011 |
| Tags:Miller-McCune, Ferber, 2011 |
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| 24. Title → “The Blind Man Who Taught Himself to See” |
| Publisher: Men’s Journal |
| Writer: Michael Finkel |
| Year: 2011 |
| Tags:Men’s Journal, Finkel, 2011 |
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| 25. Title → “Niether Models nor Miracles: A Look at Synthetic Biology” |
| Publisher: Ars Technica |
| Writer: Robert Fortner |
| Year: 2010 |
| Tags:Ars Technica, Fortner, 2010 |
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| 26. Title → “The Ground Zero of Climate Change” |
| Publisher: Discover |
| Writer: Douglas Fox |
| Year: 2008 |
| Tags:Discover, Fox, 2008 |
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| 27. Title → “Did Life Evolve in Ice?” |
| Publisher: Discover |
| Writer: Douglas Fox |
| Year: 2008 |
| Tags:Discover, Fox, 2008 |
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| 28. Title → “The Physics of Intelligence” |
| Publisher: Scientific American |
| Writer: Douglas Fox |
| Year: 2011 |
| Tags:Scientific American, Fox, 2011 |
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| 29. Title → “A Fight for Life that United a Field” |
| Publisher: Nature |
| Writer: Lauren Gravitz |
| Year: 2011 |
| Tags:Nature, Gravitz, 2011 |
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| 30. Title → “Our Data, Ourselves” |
| Publisher: Discover |
| Writer: Kate Greene |
| Year: 2011 |
| Tags:Discover, Greene, 2011 |
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| 31. Title → “Racing with Sam” |
| Publisher: New York Times Magazine |
| Writer: Robin Marantz Henig |
| Year: 2005 |
| Tags:New York Times Magazine, Marantz Henig, 2005 |
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| 32. Title → “Looking for the Lie” |
| Publisher: New York Times Magazine |
| Writer: Robin Marantz Henig |
| Year: 2006 |
| Tags:New York Times Magazine, Marantz Henig, 2006 |
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| 33. Title → “Understanding the Anxious Mind” |
| Publisher: New York Times Magazine |
| Writer: Robin Marantz Henig |
| Year: 2009 |
| Tags:New York Times Magazine, Marantz Henig, 2009 |
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| 34. Title → “Hot, Flat, Crowded – And Preparing for the Worst” |
| Publisher: Science |
| Writer: Mason Inman |
| Year: 2009 |
| Tags:Science, Inman, 2009 |
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| 35. Title → “Settling the Science on Himalayan Glaciers” |
| Publisher: Nature |
| Writer: Mason Inman |
| Year: 2010 |
| Tags:Nature, Inman, 2010 |
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| 36. Title → “Homing in on Black Holes” |
| Publisher: Smithsonian |
| Writer: Robert Irion |
| Year: 2008 |
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| 37. Title → “Something New Under the Sun” |
| Publisher: Smithsonian |
| Writer: Robert Irion |
| Year: 2011 |
| Tags:Smithsonian, Irion, 2011 |
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| 38. Title → “This Next Gen Camera Is Flash-Free, With or Without Light” |
| Publisher: Popular Mechanics |
| Writer: Ferris Jabr |
| Year: 2010 |
| Tags:Popular Mechanics, Jabr, 2010 |
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| 39. Title → “Heard It on the Grapevine: The Secret Society of Plants” |
| Publisher: New Scientist |
| Writer: Ferris Jabr |
| Year: 2011 |
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| 40. Title → “Scott Macartney’s Comeback” |
| Publisher: Outside |
| Writer: Jennifer Kahn |
| Year: 2009 |
| Tags:Outside, Kahn, 2009 |
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| 41. Title → “Gene Therapy in a New Light” |
| Publisher: Smithsonian |
| Writer: Jocelyn Kaiser |
| Year: 2009 |
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| 42. Title → “Little Beetle, Big Horns” |
| Publisher: Science News for Kids |
| Writer: Roberta Kwok |
| Year: 2007 |
| Tags:Science News for Kids, Kwok, 2007 |
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| 43. Title → “Braving Iceland’s Volcano” |
| Publisher: Financial Times Weekend Magazine |
| Writer: Lucas Laursen |
| Year: 2010 |
| Tags:Financial Times Weekend Magazine, Laursen, 2010 |
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| 44. Title → “Iceland Eruptions Fuel Interest in Volcanic Gas Monitoring” |
| Publisher: Science |
| Writer: Lucas Laursen |
| Year: 2010 |
| Tags:Science, Laursen, 2010 |
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| 45. Title → “Is San Francisco Next?” |
| Publisher: Atlantic |
| Writer: Judith Lewis Mernit |
| Year: 2011 |
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| 46. Title → “Here Comes the Sun” |
| Publisher: Audubon |
| Writer: Judith Lewis Mernit |
| Year: 2011 |
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| 47. Title → “The Enemy Within: A New Pattern of Antibiotic Resistance” |
| Publisher: Scientific American |
| Writer: Maryn McKenna |
| Year: 2011 |
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| 48. Title → “Carbon Detectives Are Tracking Gases in Colorado” |
| Publisher: New York Times |
| Writer: Susan Moran |
| Year: 2008 |
| Tags:New York Times, Moran, 2008 |
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| 49. Title → “Team Tracks a Food Supply at the End of the World” |
| Publisher: New York Times |
| Writer: Susan Moran |
| Year: 2012 |
| Tags:New York Times, Moran, 2012 |
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| 50. Title → “Teaming up with Thoreau” |
| Publisher: Smithsonian |
| Writer: Michelle Nijhuis |
| Year: 2007 |
| Tags:Smithsonian, Nijhuis, 2007 |
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| 51. Title → “What is Killing the Bats?” |
| Publisher: Smithsonian |
| Writer: Michelle Nijhuis |
| Year: 2011 |
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| 52. Title → “Welcome to Armageddon, USA” |
| Publisher: Wired |
| Writer: Ben Paynter |
| Year: 2010 |
| Tags:Wired, Paynter, 2010 |
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| 53. Title → “The Bionic Man Who Builds Bionic People” |
| Publisher: Discover |
| Writer: Adam Piore |
| Year: 2011 |
| Tags:Discover, Piore, 2011 |
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| 54. Title → “The Army’s Bold Plan to Turn Soldiers Into Telepaths” |
| Publisher: Discover |
| Writer: Adam Piore |
| Year: 2011 |
| Tags:Discover, Piore, 2011 |
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| 55. Title → “Déjà Vu, Again and Again” |
| Publisher: New York Times Magazine |
| Writer: Evan Ratliff |
| Year: 2006 |
| Tags:New York Times Magazine, Ratliff, 2006 |
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| 56. Title → “The Plague Fighters: Stopping the Next Pandemic Before it Occurs” |
| Publisher: Wired |
| Writer: Evan Ratliff |
| Year: 2007 |
| Tags:Wired, Ratliff, 2007 |
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| 57. Title → “Taming the Wild” |
| Publisher: National Geographic |
| Writer: Evan Ratliff |
| Year: 2011 |
| Tags:National Geographic, Ratliff, 2011 |
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| 58. Title → “Why the Buffalo Can’t Roam” |
| Publisher: OnEarth |
| Writer: Hillary Rosner |
| Year: 2010 |
| Tags:OnEarth, Rosner, 2010 |
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| 59. Title → “Waiting For an Arm and a Leg” |
| Publisher: Popular Science |
| Writer: Suzanne Sataline |
| Year: 2006 |
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| 60. Title → “Troubled Teens” |
| Publisher: Conservation |
| Writer: Dawn Stover |
| Year: 2009 |
| Tags:Conservation, Stover, 2009 |
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| 61. Title → “In Tonsils, a Problem the Size of a Pea” |
| Publisher: New York Times |
| Writer: Elizabeth Svoboda |
| Year: 2009 |
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| 62. Title → “New EPA Rules Could Prevent ‘Fracking’ Backlash” |
| Publisher: Bloomberg BusinessWeek |
| Writer: Paul Tullis |
| Year: 2012 |
| Tags:Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Tullis, 2012 |
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| 63. Title → “What Obama Can Do about Gas Prices” |
| Publisher: Bloomberg BusinessWeek |
| Writer: Paul Tullis |
| Year: 2012 |
| Tags:Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Tullis, 2012 |
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| 64. Title → “Do You Know Where Your Medicine Came From?” |
| Publisher: Pacific Standard |
| Writer: Paul Tullis |
| Year: 2012 |
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| 65. Title → “Global Warming: An Exclusive Look at James Hansen’s Scary New Math” |
| Publisher: Time |
| Writer: Paul Tullis |
| Year: 2012 |
| Tags:Time, Tullis, 2012 |
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| 66. Title → “The New School of Fish” |
| Publisher: San Francisco Magazine |
| Writer: Erik Vance |
| Year: 2011 |
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| 67. Title → “It’s Complicated: The Lives of Dolphins and Scientists” |
| Publisher: Discover |
| Writer: Erik Vance |
| Year: 2011 |
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| 68. Title → “All Along the Watchtower” |
| Publisher: High Country News |
| Writer: Eric Wagner |
| Year: 2008 |
| Tags:High Country News, Wagner, 2008 |
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| 69. Title → “After the Floods” |
| Publisher: High Country News |
| Writer: Eric Wagner |
| Year: 2009 |
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| 70. Title → “The Windhover” |
| Publisher: High Country News |
| Writer: Eric Wagner |
| Year: 2010 |
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| 71. Title → “The Rules of Attraction” |
| Publisher: Economist |
| Writer: Alexandra Witze |
| Year: 2010 |
| Tags:Economist, Witze, 2010 |
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| 72. Title → “Before the Levees Break: A Plan to Save the Netherlands” |
| Publisher: Wired |
| Writer: David Wolman |
| Year: 2008 |
| Tags:Wired, Wolman, 2008 |
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| 73. Title → “The Split Brain: A Tale of Two Halves” |
| Publisher: Nature |
| Writer: David Wolman |
| Year: 2012 |
| Tags:Nature, Wolman, 2012 |
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