Recently, SI.com, Sport’s Illustrated digital site, has been moving toward a contractual, regular relationship with trusted freelancers. If this isn’t you, but you still dream of seeing your byline on the everything-sports site, your pitch has to stand out.
For SI.com’s executive editor B.J. Schecter, this means going after unheralded high school and college sports, or nontraditional adult sports like popular obstacle course Tough Mudder.
Schecter maintains that freelancers should be less concerned about pitching their ideas to a particular department and more focused on the pitch itself.
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