Guidelines for Article Submissions
Those wishing to write unsolicited opinion commentaries for The Hub can upload their pitches using our submission form here.
Please ensure your submissions meet the following criteria:
- Are timely;
- Fall within the fields of politics, public policy, economics and business, foreign affairs, history, security, and culture;
- Have not been published elsewhere;
- Are generally no more than 850 words in length.
In terms of focus and tone, The Hub prioritizes fact- and figures-filled, future-focused, solution-oriented content over simple diagnoses of problems or rhetorical takedowns. You can learn more about our general POV on our About page.
Authors of pieces we are interested in will receive an email from a member of our editorial team. Authors who have not heard from us within five business days are free to pitch their articles elsewhere.
Selected articles will undergo an editing and fact-checking process via Google Docs with one of our editors. Writers should expect and tolerate changes to their pieces. Editors have final discretion on all edits and headlines.
You can view our Journalistic Standards and Practices here.
Authors of unsolicited pieces do not for the most part receive compensation.
The Hub will do its best to ensure that selected pieces are published in a timely manner; however, we are unable to make promises about when precisely pieces will be published.
Those wishing to write a piece of news journalism for us can also submit their pitches or pieces to editorial@thehub.ca, but include “NEWS” in the subject line. News (approx. 800 words) and feature pieces (1,500 words) word counts can vary.
Please note, while we recognize its utility as a tool in the research process, The Hub does not accept AI-generated written submissions.
In terms of styleguide, we follow Canadian Press.
Thank you for your interest.