Most of the guidelines for putting together a pitch that has more chances of standing out in an editor's inbox apply whether you are trying to get a written piece or multimedia project published.
However, there are some additional requirements journalists pitching video stories should bear in mind.
IJNet has rounded up advice from a HackPack video journalism event held in Moscow recently, with tips from Naira Davlashyan, videographer for Agence France-Presse in Russia, Albina Kirillova, producer at RFE/RL and Peter Klein, founder of the Global Reporting Centre.
Along with the staple 'know your publication and its style' before reaching out, they advise not to send a finished video with your pitch, as the editor might be looking for something in a different format. And make sure you point out any foreign language skills in your pitch, as news organisations look for them in stringers covering breaking news.
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