Forward operates at the intersection of journalism and Jewish life, with a newsroom that has, for over a century, treated the Jewish experience as a subject of serious reportage rather than mere communal boosterism. Its freelance pitch call is deliberately broad in subject matter but narrow in form: the editors want news and news features, not analysis, background, interpretation, or explainers. Trend stories, series, multimedia, and video projects are also within scope. Profiles are considered only when the subject has agreed to grant excellent access—a condition that signals the magazine's preference for reported depth over access journalism of convenience. The editors explicitly invite proposals from communities of color as well as from Sephardi, Mizrahi, Russian, and Bukharin communities. This is not a diversity gesture appended to the guidelines; it is a curatorial position about whose stories have been underrepresented in Jewish media and whose voices the magazine intends to publish. The call is rolling, carries no fee, and is conducted online. There is no prize and no fixed deadline—only an ongoing invitation to pitch. For the writer, the terms are straightforward: no submission fee, no specified payment in the provided facts, and no guarantee of assignment. What Forward offers is editorial attention from a publication with a distinct historical identity and a demonstrated appetite for news that matters to its readership. The pitch itself is the unit of evaluation. The editors direct submitters to the news section of the website to understand current interests, while cautioning against being limited by it. Historical pieces are considered only when the story is brand-new and genuinely compelling—a high bar that rewards the reporter who finds a live news hook inside the archive.