Thanks for the other ideas, and the excellent accompanying examples. Great links, too.

A word of caution related to the first strategy however: It can be frustrating (if rewarding when successful) to fight to resurface an issue that editors consider closed (where closed could mean three days old). By all means try, but you will be going against where many think their readers’ interests lie.

I would also add a third strategy to your list: you can create the agenda. I’m not talking about generating earth shattering news stories but instead about thinking like a journalist and realising that a situation you find yourself in, in work or leisure time, would be of interest to different editorial departments. One personal example: an institutional actor at a fieldwork site was promising to revolutionise mankind’s second oldest profession (farming) using digital technology. I had privileged access to all players as a researcher and realised the juxtaposition would be of interest to the countryside section of a national paper. I told all players about my post-fieldwork plans to write an article, got their permission before writing it and approval afterwards (bonus: I was paid, which meant my fieldwork travel expenses were covered).

Finally, there’s a fourth strategy: take the way you work as an anthropologist and try to create new, perhaps multimedia, narrative formats that editors consider worthy of coverage. Two examples – UCL’s Mystreet project (http://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/29/opinion/mystreet-digital-anthropology) and the Guardian’s banking blog (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/sep/14/bankers-anthropological-study-joris-luyendijk) which is essentially a series of interviews by an anthropologist with bankers as a dimension of his research (note the topicality of the latter: it helps to be involved in a ‘hot’ area)