YES! accepts pitches for our digital journalism on a rolling basis. All pitches must be submitted using the form linked below. Email pitches are no longer accepted and will not receive a reply.
YES! Media is a nonprofit, independent, reader-supported movement journalism organization reporting on radical solutions. Through our daily digital stories as well as our quarterly print magazine, YES! covers five key verticals: Environmental Justice, Racial Justice, Body Politics, Political Power, and Economic Power. Our solutions reporting spotlights the ideas and initiatives that ignite people to build a better world.
YES! Media’s stories stress the importance of grassroots activism. The solutions we report on are responsive to the needs of the communities on the frontlines of struggle and offer means and methods that can be adapted in other areas of the world.
Our explanatory journalism analyzes societal problems in terms of their root causes and explores opportunities for systemic, structural change. Our stories uncover environmental, economic, and social justice intersections. Our solutions reporting spotlights the ideas and initiatives of people building a better world. Our commentaries address dominant economic, political, and social structures and consider alternative ways of thinking that can produce a more equitable and Earth-friendly world.
In the month of April, we are accepting rigorous reporting and nuanced commentary around the following topic areas: Immigration, Indigenous Sovereignty, LGBTQ Rights, and Reproductive Justice.
Please note: Pitches outside of these four specific categories will be automatically declined. Incomplete pitches and press releases will also be automatically declined.
Read on for a description of what we are looking for in submissions as well as exemplary examples of articles we’ve published these coverage areas:
Indigenous Sovereignty
YES! Media’s coverage recognizes the sovereignty of all Indigenous peoples, and emphasizes their innate right to self-determination. We prioritize journalists and sources who are members of the Indigenous communities on which they report, trusting their expertise and lived experience over “Western/colonial” concepts of ownership, possession, and individualism.
Here are some examples of Indigenous Sovereignty stories we have published that exemplify what we aim to achieve with our coverage:
What Leonard Peltier’s Freedom Represents for Indigenous Futures
The Yurok Tribe Is Using California’s Carbon Offset Program to Buy Back Its Land
The Day the Indians Took Over Seattle’s Fort Lawton—and Won Land Back
LGBTQ Rights
YES! Media’s LGBTQ rights coverage highlights solutions bringing us closer to a world in which no one faces violence, discrimination, or harassment for who they are. We recognize that LGBTQ people have always existed across time and cultures, and as such, we recognize they may have unique perspectives to share on current and historical events. In addition to solutions journalism, our LGBTQ rights coverage illuminates under-represented and silenced voices of people who live at the intersection of multiple identities, and boldly names the systemic forces that put LGBTQ folks—and all people—in harm’s way.
In 2025, we are prioritizing LGBTQ Rights stories focused on trans rights.
Here are some examples of LGBTQ Rights stories we have published that exemplify what we aim to achieve with our coverage:
Safe Havens for Trans Migrants on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Pride Is Power: How Queer People Are Defeating Anti-LGBTQ Laws
The Queer Organizations Protecting and Supporting Trans People
Serious About Gender Exploration? There’s a Doula for That.
Reproductive Justice
YES! Media’s reproductive justice coverage is centered around the belief that reproductive care—including abortion—is a central pillar of health care. Reproductive justice also includes the right for all people, especially marginalized groups, to access culturally competent, informed health care through their entire lives, including into old age. Central to this conception of reproductive justice is a deep belief in bodily autonomy—a knowledge that each individual, along with their health care provider, is the expert on the care they need and deserve.
Here are some examples of Reproductive Justice stories we have published that exemplify what we aim to achieve with our coverage:
Above and Beyond Restoring Roe
Organizers Brace for Resurrection of “Zombie” Abortion Laws
What’s in a Name? For Abortion Providers, Quite a Bit.
Your Pitch Should Include:
The strongest pitches will be concise and clearly address several of the following questions:
- Am I the best person to report this story? How so?
- Who are the people or communities involved in and impacted by the proposed or attempted solution? Are they sources for my reporting
- What systemic societal problem(s) does it address?
- What is the evidence of impact? What research/data or independent sources give this solution credibility?
- What are its shortcomings or limitations? How are these being addressed, now or in the future?
- What other groups or communities are trying to implement a similar solution or address the same societal problem with different solutions?
Thank you for considering YES! Media as a potential home for your story idea.