Your assignment is to analyze a newly released film or tv series using a feminist framework and for a popular audience such as Ms Magazine. Your final essay should be between 800- 1,200 words.
Draft 1:
- Why now? Tie it to today by making a direct connection to news typically covered by Ms
- Make your pitch stand out: include statistics, new studies, the latest research or something that makes your pitch stand out as timely and compelling and credible.
- Help the editor “see” you story by including possible headlines and even the lede (a lede is “the introductory section of a news story that is intended to entice the reader to read the full story.” https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lede
- Sell yourself with a brief bio, and name drop