What Editors Want
Substacknewsletter · by James Durston · English
For freelance writers and journalists - what to pitch each week to maximise your chances of winning regular assignments and earning a proper income.
- Audience
- Not shown publicly
- We show a dash rather than guess
- Observed frequency
- Weekly
- From 7 posts indexed in the last 90 days
- Last post
- Nov 2, 2026
- 11 days ago
- Likely audience
- PR professionals
- Inferred from post content
What Editors Want is a Substack newsletter by James Durston covering journalism, freelance writing and pitch submission. NewsletterFIT indexed 7 posts from it in the last 90 days, most recently on Nov 2, 2026.
Topics
- journalism
- freelance writing
- pitch submission
- media marketplace
- PR services
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