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We’re Looking for Contributors
Torontoist is looking to fill out our lovely and talented staff in the new year, and that means we’re looking for new contributors. While we’re always looking for good people of all stripes and all interests, there are a few subjects in particular we want to shore up our coverage of. Perhaps you’re interested in knowing what those subjects might be?
Politics
You’ve probably noticed that we’re planning big things for this year’s municipal election. Accordingly, we’re looking for smart people to fill out our political coverage—regardless of where on the political spectrum they fall. We’re also interested in provincial and national politics, and how they affect our modest city, as well as municipal politics after the election. Basically: politics are important, always, especially right now, and we want more.Neighbourhoods
We also want to expand our coverage in and of individual neighbourhoods, catching the sorts of stories and making the sorts of discoveries that larger media outlets don’t (or wouldn’t bother to). Especially in neighbourhoods you feel like we or other media outlets don’t give enough attention to, we’re looking for people to write about what goes down in their ‘hoods, and to make those neighbourhoods’ stories relevant to a broader audience.The Environment
The Earth—its health, how it’s changing, and our role in it all—is complicated. We want more thoughtful, informed writing on the environment: what the city’s residents and businesses are doing and can do to more positively affect it, to start.Social Justice
Poverty. Labour. Human rights. They’re issues that affect all of us, whether directly or indirectly. They’re also, it goes without saying, important. Toronto has no small share of activists, issues, and ideas, but there is absolutely a dearth of attention being paid to social justice, and we’d very much like to make sure our attention is on the area more.Food
We don’t mean restaurant reviews or recipes: we mean foods news, and stories about food and the businesses that farm, prepare, or sell it, stories that’d be interesting to a wider audience than just that awkwardly named sect who self-identify as “foodies.”Film & Television
There’s a lot of exciting stuff going on in film and television production in Toronto. (Even film production that pretends it wasn’t produced in Toronto.) We want to highlight more of the work being done in Toronto. Basically, we want hundreds more Being Erica posts a month. (Kidding. Half-kidding.)We are, of course, always happy to consider anyone, and any subject, for Torontoist, and we’re also happy to let contributors cover more than just one subject. (Like writing about food, but also enjoy doing theatre reviews? Want to cover architecture and music? No problem.) If you want to contribute to Torontoist but don’t see your area of interest listed above, you should still absolutely throw your hat in the ring. We want to hear from you.
To apply to contribute to Torontoist, please review what we’re looking for in and offer to all contributors here, and follow the instructions that our Contribute page charts out.