About Digital 50.50

Digital 50.50, introduced by the Network of Women Journalists for Digital Rights, is a feminist magazine for women and non-binary journalists and writers.

It aims to serve as a tool for providing our audience with insights and experiences from the digital as well as the offline world, to produce engaging discourse on human rights in the digital era.

We are always on the hunt for pitches from diverse writers who can bring a variety of experiences and perspectives to the magazine and focus on issues from an intersectional, feminist perspective.

Being a feminist magazine, we prefer sources, interviewees and experts consulted for the submissions to be from women and non-binary folk to amplify their otherwise subdued voices.

Submission Guidelines

You can submit Features, Essays, Research Reports, Literary Work, and Visual Essays to us. But before you submit: pitch to us!

Guidelines for pitches

Please keep pitches brief, between 200 and 300 words.
Tell us, in an engaging and jargon-free style, what the story is, its scope and what’s at stake, and why Digital 50.50 is the best place to tell it, based on the issue’s theme.

Submission preparation checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission’s compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines:

  1. Has your submission been previously published, or is it before another magazine for consideration?
  2. Does your submission include any plagiarised or self-plagiarised content?
  3. Have you met the word limit?
  4. Have you verified, re-verified and fact-checked your submission?
  5. Have third-party-owned materials been identified with appropriate credit lines, and permission obtained from the copyright holder?
  6. Has consent been taken from sources?
  7. Is your submission approached from an intersectional feminist perspective?
  8. Are you submitting digital content in the proper formats mentioned in the guidelines?
  9. Have you properly referenced the submission, if it is needed?

Final submissions

Please submit a brief biography of yourself (the author!) with present employment, title(s), designations, bank details (name and branch, IBAN, title of account), CNIC and a digital photograph if you want it uploaded with your writing. Bank details and CNIC are only collected for contracts and payments.

Plagiarism or self-plagiarism

Submissions must be original and not published or submitted for publication elsewhere.