For press

What to pitch us for

We publish in a handful of formats and they want quite different things. Naming the one you’re pitching for gets you a faster and a better answer.

New & Notable

Openings and launches. A date, a location, several photographs.

What it is: Covers retail establishments trading less than 12 months. Ideally a first look prior to or soon after opening for new businesses
Who it suits: Openings and launches. If your client is opening a door to the public, this is the one.
What we need from you: Opening date, location, what it is, and a set of photographs we can use, always more than one. Video always a bonus.
What gets it turned down: If pre-launch then we’ll convert to a coming soon story and then cover with New & Notable at launch for double coverage.

The independents that make Lincoln special. We visit before we write.

What it is: Our map and record of the independent places that make Lincoln special, written up after we visit.
Who it suits: Independent retailers, small chains under the same ownership, pop-up/market retailers also considered
What we need from you: A reason it belongs, and an address. As with days out, we visit before we write.
What gets it turned down: Large chains and franchises, retailers not independently owned and online only businesses.

Invite us. We visit, we cover it ourselves, and we publish the score.

What it is: A reviewed day out, visited and scored by us across five measures, in a family or a couples league. Low scoring days out ARE NOT PUBLISHED.
Who it suits: Attractions and venues that want to be visited particularly at a key period to maximise the score
What we need from you: An invitation, not a submission. We visit, we cover it ourselves, and we publish the score we give it.
What gets it turned down: Anything conditional. We do not agree coverage, copy approval or a minimum score in advance.

Ten questions for people who have specialised in an industry for at least twenty years.

What it is: Pillars of Lincoln is a series of interviews with professionals who are more than specialists in their field. They have given their careers to their industry and become the pillars that keep Lincoln standing.
Who it suits: People who have worked in one profession for twenty years or more, and are still at it.
What we need from you: Who they are, how long they have been doing it, and why their story is part of Lincoln’s. We send the questions and ask for one good photograph.
What gets it turned down: Fewer than twenty years in the trade, or a story that is really an announcement. Like everything we publish, it cannot be bought.

Pin it! is a reader game, so there is nothing to pitch.

Send it anyway with a line about what you think it is, to editor@lovelincoln.co.uk. We’d rather point you at the right format than have you not ask.