Other Publications Executives Can Pitch

Business Insider

Covers personal finance, workplace culture, entrepreneurship, and career trajectory through first-person executive stories.

• Personal Finance - lessons executives have learned firsthand about money and financial decision-making
• Workplace Culture - observations that challenge conventional assumptions
• Entrepreneurship - stories with a specific, replicable lesson
• Career Trajectory - insights including major mistakes and what changed after them
• Economic and Business Trends - takes on trends affecting everyday professionals

Open for pitches. Contact the contributors desk at contributors@businessinsider.com with a completed draft, headline, bio, and past clips.

Bloomberg Law

Publishes practitioner analysis on tax, securities, M&A, and employment law for a legal and compliance audience.

• Tax - IRS guidance, tax legislation, and enforcement trends
• Securities - disclosure requirements and enforcement
• M&A - deal structuring and regulatory review
• Employment - labor regulation and litigation trends
• Healthcare regulation - compliance developments

Open for pitches. Contact insights@bloombergindustry.com or see Become a Contributor. Pieces run up to ~1,000 words with a signed author agreement required before publication.

CIO.com

Covers digital transformation, AI strategy, IT governance, and cloud strategy for IT and business leadership.

• Digital Transformation - what actually changed organizational behavior versus what stayed theoretical
• AI Strategy and Implementation - building AI business cases that survive CFO and board scrutiny
• IT Governance and Leadership - model risk, vendor dependency, and data governance
• Cybersecurity (Executive Perspective) - risk management framed for board decision-making
• Cloud Strategy - prioritization frameworks for finite technology investment

Open for pitches. CIO.com runs the Foundry Expert Contributor Network (shared across CIO, Computerworld, CSO, and InfoWorld) -- register at cio.com/expert-contributor-network. Free to join; an assigned editor works with you on the piece.

InfoWorld

Covers cloud architecture, AI/ML implementation, and enterprise software architecture for technical decision-makers.

• Cloud Architecture - multi-cloud strategies, cost management, Kubernetes at enterprise scale
• AI/ML Implementation - model deployment in production, MLOps, LLM integration
• Enterprise Software Architecture - microservices, event-driven architecture, API design
• DevOps and Platform Engineering - CI/CD evolution, developer experience
• Open Source in Enterprise - governance and security strategies

Open for pitches. Same Foundry Expert Contributor Network as CIO.com -- register at infoworld.com/expert-contributor-network.

Fortune

Publishes short-form opinion and longer analytical features on business strategy and leadership, plus franchise-tied pieces.

• Short-form opinion (600-1,000 words) - a current business trend with a clear executive perspective
• Long-form analytical features (1,500-2,500 words) - a structural shift in an industry, pitched to section editors
• Franchise-tied pieces - timed to the Fortune 500 announcement or a Fortune conference
• Leadership and management - grounded in direct experience managing at scale
• Enterprise technology transitions - operational, not vendor-perspective, framing

Open for pitches. Fortune runs an active Commentary section (fortune.com/section/commentary) -- check the current masthead for the Commentary editor's contact rather than a fixed address, since editorial staffing changes.

The Washington Post

Runs opinion content on technology regulation, workforce policy, healthcare economics, and infrastructure, plus a dedicated section for perspectives that don't fit a standard op-ed.

• Technology Regulation - AI governance, data privacy, platform policy
• Labor and Workforce Policy - employment effects of automation and economic shifts
• Healthcare Economics - cost dynamics and policy responsibility
• Infrastructure and Climate - investment and adaptation intersections
• PostEverything - novel outside perspectives outside the standard op-ed format

Open for pitches. Submit a completed draft (~800 words) via the official op-ed submission form. They receive hundreds of submissions daily and run only a handful, so this is genuinely competitive.

Wired

Publishes first-principles arguments on technology trends, unintended consequences of adopted technology, and predictions grounded in technical specifics.

• Why a technology trend is misunderstood by the mainstream
• Unintended consequences of a widely adopted technology
• How a technical development reshapes a non-obvious domain
• Arguments pushing back on prevailing tech-industry consensus
• Predictions grounded in technical specifics, not vague futurism

Open for pitches. Wired's guidelines direct pitches to specific editors based on your story's beat -- see their pitching page for the right contact.

The New York Times (Opinion / Guest Essay)

Publishes policy-connected industry arguments, novel field-challenging perspectives, and society-facing technology and labor pieces.

• Policy-connected industry arguments with national significance
• Novel arguments based on a pattern observed across many companies or decisions
• Society-facing technology and labor pieces
• Guest Essays from diverse professional voices
• Timely arguments tied to an active news cycle

Open for pitches via the NYT Opinion Guest Essays submission form.

Newsweek

Runs free organic opinion submissions tied to breaking news. The paid Newsweek Expert Forum membership program has been sunset -- it is no longer an available path.

• Organic opinion and analysis - for pieces tied to a breaking or developing story
• Sections: Opinion, Business and Finance, and Technology
• General-audience framing - not industry-jargon-heavy analysis
• 700-900 word format for most pieces
• Strongest fit for a timely, news-hooked argument, not a general thought-leadership essay

Open for pitches, one way. Free organic path only: opeds@newsweek.com. The paid Expert Forum program has been discontinued.

Politico

Covers policy debates through opinion op-eds, longer magazine features, and vertical coverage across healthcare, energy, finance, tech, and defense.

• Opinion op-eds (600-800 words) - an active legislative or regulatory debate
• POLITICO Magazine features (1,500-3,000 words) - novel frameworks or original research
• Politico Pro vertical content - typically developed through Politico's editorial team
• Playbook and morning newsletters - required reading among DC insiders, not a contributor channel
• Policy arguments grounded in operational, not political, experience

Open for pitches (Magazine). Send pitches or completed drafts to magazinesubmissions@politico.com.

Scientific American

Publishes opinion essays, in-depth analysis, and Q&A features connecting technical expertise to public-interest questions.

• Opinion essays (800-1,500 words) - connecting technical expertise to a public-interest question
• In-Depth analysis - a scientific or technological question examined at length
• Q&A features - structured interviews with scientists, technologists, and policymakers
• AI, biotechnology, and climate technology - core recurring subject areas
• Digital health and cybersecurity - growing coverage areas

Open for pitches. Identify the relevant editor from the masthead and pitch via the official Submission Instructions page.

STAT News (First Opinion)

Covers pharma and biotech strategy, health policy, clinical medicine, and digital health for a healthcare-industry audience.

• Pharma and biotech - drug development strategy, clinical trial design, business models
• Health policy - regulatory reform, drug pricing, healthcare system structure
• Clinical medicine - practice-level perspectives from physicians and healthcare leaders
• Digital health - AI in healthcare, digital therapeutics, health tech regulation
• First Opinion essays - STAT's ~900-1,000 word contributor format

Open for pitches. Submit via statnews.com/first-opinion-submission. No payment, but a real, active, recently-updated program.

The Atlantic

Publishes ideas-driven essays on the future of work, economic disruption, global and cultural forces, and technology's effect on society.

• The Future of Work - what AI adoption inside real organizations reveals about human work
• Economic Disruption - how humans adapt to industry-level change
• Global and Cultural Forces - lessons from building across different cultural contexts
• Power and Organizational Life - dynamics inside fast-growing companies
• Technology and Society - executive experience as a lens on a larger human story

Open for pitches, but highly competitive. Pitch the relevant section editor per The Atlantic's own submissions guide. Wants a specific argument, not a topic.

The Hill

Runs opinion pieces connecting industry expertise to active Congressional and regulatory debates, read by Congressional staff and policy professionals.

• Technology regulation - AI governance, data privacy, platform accountability
• Financial services - banking regulation, fintech policy
• Healthcare - drug pricing, digital health regulation
• Energy - climate policy, infrastructure, permitting
• Telecommunications - spectrum policy, broadband access

Open for pitches. See their submission page for current guidance.

USA Today (Opinion)

Covers the employment effects of automation, consumer impact, economic inequality, and national policy debates for a broad general audience.

• Employment and Technology - automation and AI's effect on American workers
• Consumer Impact - implications of corporate pricing, product, or policy decisions
• Economic Inequality - industry-specific connections to broader inequality
• Health and Safety - business-practice dimensions
• National Policy Debates - insight connected to pending legislation

Open for pitches. Paste 550-750 words into an email body to theforum@usatoday.com. Must be exclusive and not previously posted anywhere, including social media.

VentureBeat

Publishes operational, data-driven analysis of enterprise AI deployment for VP-level and C-suite technology buyers.

• Operational truth from someone who has deployed a specific AI capability at scale
• Adoption data - how enterprises actually use a technology versus how it's marketed
• Where AI/ML implementations fail and what that reveals about real limitations
• Organizational and cultural prerequisites for AI adoption
• ROI frameworks for enterprise AI grounded in real deployment numbers

Open for pitches through the DataDecisionMakers guest-post program -- submit via VentureBeat's guest-posts page, which has the current submission form.

Wall Street Journal (Opinion)

Publishes sharp, contrarian arguments tied to breaking news -- regulatory unintended-consequences pieces, industry pushback, and predictive market arguments.

• A regulatory unintended-consequences argument from direct experience
• An industry pushback piece challenging a widely held assumption
• A predictive market argument grounded in operational visibility
• Desk-specific contributions -- Opinion, Technology, Finance, and Management run separately
• Sharp, breaking-news-adjacent framing, not general "lessons learned" essays

Open for unsolicited op-eds, in principle. WSJ Opinion has a long-standing practice of accepting outside op-eds. See their Op-Ed guidelines for how to find the right editor to pitch.

CNBC (including CNBC Make It)

Runs staff-written and invitation-only contributor content across careers, personal finance, and business economics.

Not accepting outside pitches. CNBC's own help center confirms guest writers are selected by invitation only, and unsolicited materials are not reviewed. Try Harvard Business Review instead.

ZDNet

Covers cloud computing, cybersecurity, and enterprise IT operations, largely through editor-selected contributors.

No documented open submission process. Contributor slots appear to be selected by ZDNet's editorial team rather than solicited through any public pitch channel. Try Inc instead.

McKinsey Quarterly

Publishes research-grounded features on strategy and organization, written primarily by McKinsey consultants and occasional invited outside experts.

Effectively closed to outside pitches. No public "submit an article" channel exists; outside contributions are by editorial invitation. Try Forbes instead.

Financial Times

Covers global business, finance, and economic policy through FT Opinion, Lex, and FT Alphaville.

No current, publicly confirmed submission process. FT opinion content today is overwhelmingly staff columnists and long-term contracted contributors. Try Harvard Business Review instead.

Axios

Runs newsletter-style briefings across politics, technology, energy, healthcare, and markets.

No open opinion channel. Axios's founders have stated it deliberately runs no editorial/opinion page, and no public submission channel was found. Try Fast Company instead.

Bloomberg (Opinion)

Covers markets, policy, and structural industry change through staff and long-term columnists.

No current, publicly confirmed pitch address. Bloomberg Opinion runs staff columnists and a small set of established guest contributors; no reliable open submission channel was found. Try Forbes instead.

Time

Covers technology and work, climate, health policy, economic inequality, and governance through its Ideas section.

No verified official submission channel. Specific "guidelines" circulating online for Time trace back to unverified third-party content, not Time itself. Try Entrepreneur instead.

IEEE Spectrum

Covers AI, semiconductors, robotics, and energy systems for engineers and researchers.

A real pitch channel exists, but for freelance journalists, not executive op-eds. See their freelancer guidelines if you have deep technical/research credentials, but don't expect a guaranteed executive-opinion slot. Try Fast Company instead.

MIT Technology Review

Covers the gap between technical hype and capability, research-to-deployment translation, and technical ethics.

A real pitch channel exists, but op-eds are accepted "very sparingly." Most of what they run is reported journalism, not executive-authored opinion. See their pitch page if it fits, but try Harvard Business Review for a more reliable path.

MIT Sloan Management Review

Published research-grounded features on strategy, leadership, and management practice for a business-academic audience.

Closing entirely. MIT Sloan Management Review is ceasing publication, so there is no submission path of any kind. Try Harvard Business Review instead.

Rolling Stone

Covers culture, politics, and music, with occasional business coverage tied to entertainment and media industries.

No open editorial path for executive business content. Rolling Stone's coverage doesn't run executive-authored business op-eds. Try Fast Company or Entrepreneur instead.