BLACKOUT MAP

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Write for Blackout Map

Know how the internet breaks? Write about it under your own name. You pick the topic. We give you readers, a proper edit and an author page with your photo.

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23posts read in the last 30 days
14languages our readers use

Who we are looking for

Guest writers who know their subject. You don't need a big name or a journalism degree: building a name is what this is for.

Engineers and security people

You run networks or hunt bugs for a living. Tell the story behind the outage that only insiders know.

Students

Studying IT, security, journalism or political science? Publish something real that you can show an employer.

New tech journalists

Build a portfolio with in-depth pieces on infrastructure and the politics of internet blocks.

Data people

Take our outage data, add your own and find what nobody has noticed yet.

Digital rights people

Write about censorship and shutdowns from close by, with facts and sources behind every claim.

Researchers

Turn your paper or thesis into a story that people outside your field want to read.

What you get

Your own author page

Your photo, a short bio, links to your site and profiles, and everything you wrote for us, on one address you can put on your CV.

Your name on your work

Every post carries your byline and links to your author page. No ghostwriting: the work stays yours.

Real readers

Your post goes on the blog and we share it on our social media, starting with X.

You pick the topic

Write about what you find interesting. We don't hand out assignments: if it fits the site, we want to read it.

A proper edit

A person reads every draft, checks the facts and sends it back with suggestions. You see the final text before it goes live.

Our data

Need numbers for your story? Use our charts and outage history, and ask us when you need something that isn't on the site.

What you can write about

Anything about how the internet and the services on it stay up, or don't. A few ideas, not a list to stick to:

What we won't publish

This is a place for writers, not a back door for link builders. Search engines punish sites that fill up with that stuff, and readers leave. So we turn down all of this:

How it works

  1. Pitch

    Tell us your idea in a few lines and show us something you wrote before.

  2. Write

    If it's a fit, we say yes and you write the full post, with your sources.

  3. Edit

    We check the facts and suggest changes. You approve the final version.

  4. Publish

    It goes live with your name, your author page opens, and we share it.

The small print

Payment
None. We don't pay for posts, and you never pay us.
Copyright
Yours. You give us the right to publish, translate and share the post.
Language
English. We may translate your post for readers elsewhere.
Length
Usually 800 to 2,000 words. As long as the story needs.
Your links
Links to your own site or profiles are nofollow: they are for readers, not for rankings.
Your identity
A real person. Pen names are fine if you need one for your safety or your job, as long as we know who you are.

Pitch a post

Your e-mail address is only used to answer you.

A good pitch

Has one clear idea, not a broad subject. "How Pakistan took YouTube down in 2008" beats "The history of BGP".

Says what you know that others don't: you were there, you ran the numbers, you fixed it.

Comes from you. Mass mails to "the editor" go unanswered.