Submitting to SupChina

SupChina welcomes pitches of all kinds, from reportage to reviews to opinion pieces. Basically, any type of story that has ever appeared on our website. Please let this guide be your way of maximizing your chances of acceptance.

Pitches should be sent to our editorial staff at editors@supchina.com.

There’s no formula for the perfect pitch, but for those contacting us for the first time, it would help greatly if you structured your email this way:

A brief paragraph about who you are, what you do, and links to your published work (if applicable). 

A paragraph that summarizes the story you’d like to tell, or what you’d like to find out. Also, how will you tell it? As a news feature? Profile? Q-and-A? Review? Op-ed? How many words do you need?

Importantly, we need to know the news hook. Why is your story idea relevant for this current time and place? In the best pitches we’ve received, the writer is clear about what they want to discover, prove, or argue. In general, we don’t run articles that merely ask questions; we’d prefer them answered. 

Finally, if applicable, tell us your key sources of information, whether interview or secondary sources, and demonstrate an awareness of what other people have written related to your subject.

Please keep in mind that though we are a China-watching media organization, most of our audience is based in the U.S.

We look forward to hearing from you!