Pitch a story.
Radiology Signal is a new publication. We publish reporting and commentary from clinicians, researchers, informatics leaders, and operators in the field. Here is what we are looking for, and what to expect if you pitch us.
What we publish from contributors
- Opinion and commentary. Argument pieces from practitioners and researchers, typically 800 to 1,400 words. Make a clear case for something readers in the field disagree about.
- First-person operational essays. What you actually learned deploying, building, or running something in imaging. The kind of detail that does not appear in vendor materials.
- Reported features. Original reporting on stories we have not covered. Pitch the story, not the topic.
How to pitch
Send a short pitch, one to three paragraphs, to write@radiologysignal.com. Tell us what the piece argues or reports, why now, and why you are the right person to write it. If you have published before, link to something representative. We aim to respond within a week, though sometimes longer if we are heads down on coverage.
What we do not publish
Press releases, vendor marketing, ghost-written executive bylines, or commentary without a clear argument. We do not publish anonymous opinion except in narrow circumstances involving credible professional risk.
Payment
Radiology Signal is a new publication and we do not currently pay for contributed pieces. We will compensate writers when we have a sustainable revenue base, and we will say so on this page when that changes. In the meantime, contributors receive a full byline, an author page, links to their work and website, and editorial care equal to anything else we publish.
Editorial expectations
We edit closely. We fact-check. We may push you to sharpen an argument, cut a section, or add reporting. We aim to make every accepted piece stronger before it runs, and we will not publish a piece if we cannot agree with the author on the edits.