Carnegie Council Magazine on Social Innovation Seeks Student-Authored Articles

policy innovationsPolicy Innovations, the Carnegie Council’s magazine on Social Innovation, is looking for grad students or recent graduates who may be interested in getting their work/ideas published. The magazine invites commentary focusing on cities, education, gender, environment, food, etc.

Please look at the submission guidelines for more information.

If you have an idea for an article, you can contact the editor directly–Irene Pedruelo at [email protected].  Please contact her with a short description of your idea BEFORE submitting an article, and be sure to review the guidelines before contacting her.

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Here are the general article guidelines:

  1. We are a magazine, not a journal. We distance ourselves from academic writing (we are not looking for papers). Your article must be more of a journalistic/commentary piece.
  2. I always remind my writers: Good storytelling is fueled by fear, by the fear of losing your audience. Just remember to “plant gold” in each paragraph so you keep readers’ attention.  The first paragraph is key: readers will give you 20 seconds. If after that they are not hooked, they will leave the text. So ask yourself: What is the question I am trying to answer? What is the story? Is this clear in the first three paragraphs of my text?
  3. What is the added value of your piece? There is a lot written on your topic. Are you planning to do some reporting/interviewing for the piece? If so, who are you planning to talk to? (*this may or may not be applicable to your case)
  4. We cover: environment, cities, food, health, education, tech, gender and teaching&learning. Your article should fall under this broad umbrella of topics.
  5. We look for unorthodox thinking and counter-intuitive articles. How is your idea counter-intuitive?

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