For 42 years, Omaha Magazine has brought stories of the city’s most fascinating people and interesting places. This regional lifestyle magazine serves a readership of more than 260,000 people, both print and web, reaching local homes, professional offices. Every issue, our award-winning writers, photographers, columnists, and designers bring you captivating stories on area homes and gardens, lifestyles, food and dining, style, the arts, entertainment, and travel. If it’s Omaha, it’s in Omaha Magazine.
Core Values
- Community: we are reflective and responsible to Greater Omaha.
- Integrity: We do the right thing all the time for our customers, reader, and employees.
- Passion: We care deeply about our work, it is what defines us, we take ownership. We are the Best of Omaha in service, quality, and delivery.
- Creative: Our work will challenge the readers and offer fresh visual perspective
Meet the People Behind the Magazine
Meet the Staff and Contributors who make the Omaha Magazine possible!
Submissions
Omaha Magazine takes pride in telling stories about the people and places of our city, and telling them well. Articles are positive and colorful, and celebrate what it means to live and work in Nebraska’s largest city. These stories are published across a variety of publications, each with its own focus:
Additionally, we also produce several special publications throughout the year, such as
- Best of Omaha
- Faces of Omaha
- Faces of Lincoln
- Omaha Performing Arts Programs
- Physicians Bulletin
- Onyx
- North Omaha First
All of our publications can be viewed in magazine format by looking at our flip books.
How to Pitch
Please note: we work four to six months in advance, so news pitches about coming events or seasonal issues (spring allergies, winter workout ideas) are normally not considered. If you wish to be considered for freelance work, please submit the following:
- A resume
- Two or three clips in published format and/or the links to the publications.
- Two or three brief article ideas.
- We’ll contact you with our pay rate and style guide if your qualifications meet our standards.
Send pitches to: editor@omahamagazine.com
Commenting
At Omaha Magazine, we strive to bring you positive, challenging, thoughtful content. We ask that you do the same when you comment on our online landing places: our website and our Facebook. We’re firm believers in respectful conversation, which includes respectful disagreement. We support your right to strong opinions, but we ask that you help us as we attempt to create an environment where constructive conversation is welcome.
We reserve the right to delete comments that strike us as:
- rude
- attacking
- off topic
- self promotional
If you have questions about our commenting policy, please contact us at: editor@omahmagazine.com.
Careers
Job opportunities
Although Omaha Magazine currently has no open positions, we’re always accepting new freelancers. Check out our Submissions section above to send in your pitch.
Interested applicants should e-mail todd@omahapublications.com with a cover letter, resume, and three writing samples (of published or unpublished work).
Internship opportunities
Omaha Magazine editorial interns build a portfolio of writing credits as they assist the editorial team in building each issue. Interns are expected to be reliable, detail-oriented, and curious.
Responsibilities include:
- Helping manage event calendars
- Copy editing and proofreading
- Writing at least one feature story
Hours:
- Hours vary based on availability and class schedule.
- Minimum of 12 hours per week.
Requirements:
- All interns must be eligible for academic credit. The internship coordinator at your school will be able to tell you if you are eligible for credit.
- Interested applicants should e-mail editor@omahamagazine.com with a cover letter, resume, and three writing samples (of published or unpublished work).