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How to Pitch: Cosmopolitan

Nailing the Cosmo voice is key, so send your clips and hone your pitch to entice its editors to assign to you

By Melissa Walker – April 19, 2007

Circulation: 2.9 million
Frequency: Monthly
Special issues: None

Background: Legendary Cosmopolitan editor-in-chief Helen Gurley Brown wrote the revolutionary bestseller Sex and the Single Girl in 1962. She was an outspoken advocate of sexual freedom in the 1960s, and her magazine served as a guide for liberated, single women -- sometimes referred to as "Cosmo Girls." Brown, who still enters the Hearst building daily for work, created the "go on, girl" tone Cosmo strikes today.

In its current incarnation, Cosmopolitan reaches out to "fun, fearless females" with coverlines like "99 Sex Facts ...

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