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VICE AUSTRALIA is now accepting pitches for written work – and beyond.Our base rates START at $200 and rise from there, depending on factors including word count, prior or current research required, timeliness, interviews required and the estimated time commitment on your part. A short or personal piece on a current trend (400-600 words) would sit closer to $200, while a larger piece (up to 1500 words) investigating a phenomenon, interviewing people involved, or an exclusive report would come closer to $550.If you think you idea could work as well or better across another medium such as video, we'd love to hear it. Similar rates apply. ABOUT VICE AUVICE AUSTRALIA is focused on IDENTITY, DRUGS, CRIME, SEX, CULTURE, and NEWS. We're not about chasing the tail of whatever's hot in a single day’s news cycle and we're not about endlessly writing what everyone else is writing just because that's The Done Thing. We want to tell new stories, and we want to tell them as directly as possible.All reporting, including opinion pieces, needs to be backed up with facts + case studies either mentioned or hyperlinked in the piece.WE WANT STUFF THAT LOOKS LIKE…We have particular interest in writers and creators who are:
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- Features on identity, culture, inequality, colonisation, gentrification, the cost of living and anything related to what it’s like to be alive as a young person in Australia today
- Deep dives on niche topics
- Extremely thorough investigations of extremely inconsequential things
- “Rabbit hole” stories that look at longstanding AUS / NZ mysteries
- Oral histories
- Online culture / subcultures
- First-person experiences and wild rides
- Under-reported beats
- Trend pieces that say something deeper than, “Hey check this thing out.”
- Weird experiences
- Uniquely Australian / New Zealand takes on current affairs
- Sex + Sexuality
- Gender
- Politics through the lens of REAL PEOPLE
- Climate reporting that focuses on how we’re being impacted NOW
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- Underpublished
- Don’t yet have their foot in the door of Australian media
- Looking to say something new that they can’t say elsewhere
- Tapped into Australian + New Zealand culture