Craft a winning pitch with advice from NY Times Opinion Editor Katie Kingsbury

Want to land a New York Times byline? Opinion Editor Katie Kingsbury and host Katherine Reynolds Lewis discuss how you can pitch The Times your opinion piece. Highlights include what Katie’s ideal pitch looks like and what to expect from the editing process. Katie also peels back the curtain on a few of her favorite guest essays, revealing what it takes to get a piece from a pitch to the printed page.

Katie Kingsbury has been at the Times since 2017. Before she was running the desk, she was a deputy editor working on pieces surrounding guns, domestic violence, race, and culture. Prior to that, she worked at The Boston Globe as Managing Editor of Digital. She won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for her series on poor working conditions and pay in the restaurant industry.

Katherine Reynolds Lewis is the founder of the Institute for Independent Journalists. A science journalist and author who writes about education, equity, mental health, parenting, journalism, and social justice, she previously worked as a national correspondent for Newhouse News Service and Bloomberg News.

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