We publish great pitches for great journalists.
We’re writers with big pitch experience—Vox, the Wall Street Journal, iHeartRadio.
Our job is to find you your next great pitch.
Every week, we send a pitch right to your inbox—ready to go, right off the bat—so you can walk into a newsroom and get the green light for your next big story.
And no, there’s no catch.
Because writing a great story is hard enough. Finding a great story is even harder.
You can take these pitches as your own—transform, pitch, or publish them however you like.
Now, the only question that matters is… what’s your next story?
Subscribe to Case by Case to find out.
What’s in every newsletter
We have at least 5 sections you can expect in every newsletter.
The lede: The area we’re focusing our pitches on that week and why.
Publications to pitch to: Contact information and how to pitch to publications that would love this week’s idea.
The best pitch: Our favorite pitch of the week on our topic of choice. This also includes key pitch components like the guiding question, the news peg, why this story is worth covering, what we still don’t have answers to, and a diverse set of sources worth interviewing.
Other pitches in this space: 2-3 guiding questions and the beginnings of answers to other pitches on the same topic.
Additional research sources: Links to learn more if you decide this pitch should be your next story.
If you find this resource helpful, you can also donate a coffee!
FAQ
Are these pitches fully published stories/features?
No.
This newsletter is made up only of pitches, meaning it’s the start of a great story, but not fully baked yet; it’s missing the full scale of due dilligence required for a story to rise to the level of publishable quality.
As journalists, we recognize the full scale of effort needed to do justice to a story, including interviewing, editing, analysis, research etc. While we incorporate many of the same processes of fact-checking and editing that we’ve learned from traditional newsrooms, we recognize what we share here is simply the bones of a good story. Ultimately, we are hopefully the catalyst for your next great story, but you’re the one who takes it across the finish line.
As a result, we hope Case by Case is the start of a collaborative project where we deliver you a newsletter with an idea, a handful of angles, and plenty of loose threads right to your inbox. By passing the baton, we seek to have stories validated by an audience of savvy reporters like you.
We hope you’ll share with us what you end up doing with them.
Do you do fact-checking?
Yes!
We have a built-in system of fact-checking—tried and tested in some of the biggest newsrooms in America.
First, every published pitch goes through our internal pitch process (so we sit and debate whether our gut thinks there is a question worth answering here). Second, we hold a “pitch defense” meeting, where we present oral arguments to our friends and colleagues one step removed from the process and who can identify any logical or factual holes. Third, we go through a secondary fact check, and anything that is questionable or is in need of further research by you, the journalist, is provided its own space under the section “What We Don’t Have Answers To Yet.” Not only does this supplement our sources section, but it provides direction to good journalists like you so you know exactly where to plug holes if they want to run with our pitch.
All this said, we are run by one person who runs this as a personal project, and we recognize human error! If there is ever anything incorrect, misrepresentative, or even sounds slightly odd, please don’t hesitate to reach out to casebycasemedia@gmail.com to request a correction or provide evidence for a counterargument. We firmly believe great reporting requires absolute transparency and, as a resource for other journalists, it is our job to be meticulous in our research and the defense of our ideas.
Our schedule and subscriber benefits
Every Monday (*ish) you can expect a new story pitch!
Free subscribers get a free newsletter, with 2-3 pitches, every other week. They also get access to intermittent podcasts about the pitch development process.
Paid subscribers ($10/month) get up to double the pitches. Paid subscribers get an additional one or two subscriber-only newsletters per month (that’s up to four pitch newsletters per month)
Founding Member subscribers ($200/yr), get invited into 1 pitch meeting per month where we can vet their pitches and they can see how the sausage gets made as we vet our own pitches.
*Please note, Alex is the only writer for CBC. She is also simultaneously in law school. Consequently, depending on her level of sleep deprivation, the schedule may shift accordingly, but we will always prioritize publishing free materials for our readers first.
Scheduled Holidays: TBD
How to get in contact
Have a pitch we should publish? A correction? Hot tip? Just want to say hi?
Email us at casebycasemedia@gmail.com, or if you’re cool, you can slide into our Twitter DM’s @alexc_journals.
See you on the wire.
📌 Disclaimer: We love these ideas, but they are not fully fleshed-out stories. These are pitches intended as a starting point for other journalists to investigate further and as such, require more interviewing, analysis, and fact-checking before they can be considered full articles. You can learn more about our process under our ethics, accountability, and corrections policies here.
Updated Dec 22, 2022
