Thank you for your interest in submitting an op-ed to the Washington Examiner. Before submitting, please consult the following guidelines: What you need in your pitch Please include the following information in a brief cover letter: The ideal op-ed What not to do Additional information Send all submissions to: [email protected]
Thank you for your interest in submitting an op-ed to the Washington Examiner. Before submitting, please consult the following guidelines:
What you need in your pitch
Please include the following information in a brief cover letter:
- A few sentences explaining the article’s thesis that includes why it is relevant to the news cycle.
- A description of the author and his or her organization, with proof of their identity.
- Word count.
- A proposed headline.
- The article.
- Confirmation that the submission is exclusive to the Washington Examiner.
- Disclosure of any conflicts of interest.
The ideal op-ed
- Op-eds should be roughly 600 words, although we can accept submissions of a reasonable length on a case-by-case basis.
- There must be an opinion present — we do not accept submissions that just report or aggregate the news.
- The topic should be timely and relevant to our readers, the argument should be well thought out, and the take should be unique.
- Include an italicized description of the author at the very bottom of the piece.
- Fact check your claims, and hyperlink them to help us fact check your work.
- The structure and flow of the op-ed should be a standard article, not a bulleted list.
What not to do
- Do not send an idea for an op-ed, we only accept completed submissions.
- Do not pitch a topic that poses an undisclosed conflict of interest for you.
- Do not include self-promotion.
- Do not use a pseudonym for the author.
Additional information
- We only accept completed articles, not ideas for op-eds.
- Our goal is to answer every submission email as soon as possible, within three business days, but if you don’t get a response within a week you can assume we have rejected it.
- The editor has final say on the headline and in most cases will rewrite them to better fit our audience or reach a broader spectrum of readers.
- You can expect the articles to go through two sets of editing: One for flow and content, the other for grammar and style.
Send all submissions to: [email protected]
