Freelance writing, Scrap Magazine, pays $600-$1000 per article

Scrap is the bimonthly magazine of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), a Washington, D.C.-based trade association with about 1,500 member companies that process, broker, and consume scrap commodities, including ferrous and nonferrous metals, paper, glass, textiles, rubber, and plastics.

Scrap has a Threefold Purpose:

* To provide practical and useful information to scrap professionals through articles and columns that will increase the profitability of their businesses. The editorial content of Scrap is designed to stimulate--to help scrap professionals manage all aspects of their businesses more successfully. Each issue communicates a variety of ideas to achieve that objective.

* To provide an editorial environment that will complement the sales message and help enhance advertisers’ profits. A quality editorial product provides additional credence and credibility to each advertisement in the magazine. Scrap wants its advertisers to be profitable and realizes that the editorial setting and target readership it provides are key ingredients to that success.

* To ensure that Scrap generates sufficient income to cover all of its costs, as well as to support ISRI in conducting other education, information, and research programs to benefit the association’s membership.

Scrap is located within the ISRI headquarters and can be reached at:

ISRI LogoScrap
1325 G St. N.W., Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20005-3104

Scrap Writer’s Guidelines

Though Scrap is predominantly staff-written, the magazine does hire freelance writers. Most assignments are multisource features that focus on topics of interest and importance to scrap recyclers, such as new scrap processing and handling equipment, environmental regulations and legislation, market trends, management and operational techniques, and more. Scrap pays $600-$1,000 depending on the length and difficulty of the assignment. Payment upon acceptance. Byline given.

Writers interested in freelance assignments with Scrap should mail a letter of interest and at least two feature clips to Scrap, Attn: Kent Kiser, 1325 G St. N.W., Suite 1000, Washington, DC 20005-3104.

Contact Information:

For inquiries: kentkiser@scrap.org

For submissions: Attn: Kent Kiser, 1325 G St. N.W., Suite 1000, Washington, DC 20005-3104

Website: http://www.scrap.org