Author Guidelines: Bloomberg Tax and Bloomberg Law Outside Commentary

Bloomberg Law and Bloomberg Tax Insights and Commentary provide readers with expert analysis of current events and issues relevant to US and global tax and legal practice. Our articles spotlight litigation, regulation, legislation, industry and practice, management and careers, technology and operations, and other trends.

What We’re Looking For

We welcome short proposals and full article submissions on a range of news topics—arising from tax rules and regulation, global taxation, court dockets, agencies, Congress, industry, academia, and more—as well as evergreen or practical subjects and long-term trends. While many topics overlap, we often publish commentary that fits distinctly into the Law or Tax verticals and target those readers.

All article submissions and pitches must contain a clear, expert angle of analysis or commentary and avoid summary. Our reporters cover the news developments. We rely on experts like you to provide context, foreshadow impact, caution stakeholders, craft arguments, or explain how to comply and mitigate risk.

Insights are shorter, conversational, accessible, and popular. They serve attorneys, tax professionals, corporate executives and business owners, lobbyists, government officials, trade association and think tank leaders, academics and students, and more.

Professional Perspectives provide authors more space to stake out a clear position, giving readers context about whether an area of law needs to change, why it should stay the same, or providing an in-depth look at a topic that could benefit their practice.

The Journals—Tax Management Memorandum and Tax Management International—provide technical insight and expert analysis on complex issues relevant to US and global tax for practicing tax professionals. Journal articles offer a range of opinions, practical analysis, and planning points on recent cases, regulations, legislation, and international tax developments.

Where You’ll Be Published

All commentary is published outside the paywall on Bloomberg Law and Bloomberg Tax, including Daily Tax Report. They are also distributed to Bloomberg Government and Bloomberg Terminal customers.

Tax and accounting pieces are featured on The Exchange and law pieces are featured on The Legal Exchange, our hubs for hubs for exclusive commentary and analysis.

How the Process Works

Our goal is to help you publish the best work possible. Our team will work with you from submission to publication. The team reviews articles for timeliness, substance, accuracy, and readability. We edit for structure and style, but our goal is to be as collaborative as possible so that you’re happy with the final product and we can ensure maximum visibility with our readers.

Guidelines

• Outside commentary should be timely and written in jargon-free active voice, with forward-looking analysis and sparing background.
• The top of the article explains why the topic or development matters—why this, why now—and includes any news hook or relevant trend.
• The main analytical takeaway of the article should appear in the first or second paragraph.
• For Insights, the word count maximum is 1,000 words. Quick turnaround takes on news events may be shorter. Professional Perspectives are closer to 1,500-2,000 words. Tax Journal articles are generally at least 1,500 words.
• Please submit your draft in Word.
• Provide source hyperlinks (in lieu of footnotes) for facts, figures, and anything that requires fact-checking, as well as citations for all court cases.
• Charts or graphs can be included for consideration. Accepted charts will be recreated. Submit source data in an Excel file.
• Submit a headshot and one-sentence bio to accompany your article. It can describe a past role if it’s relevant to the topic. Headshots should be professional, in color, and high-resolution.

Requirements

• Articles must be original and not previously published.
• Once an article has been published with us, it may not be published elsewhere. We encourage you to share the link to your published piece, which will be outside our paywall.
• You must disclose whether you’ve used AI in any part of the drafting or writing process.
• Please keep the number of contributors per piece to three, with author names and bios provided upfront.
• Authors must sign a publication agreement via DocuSign once a pitch is accepted. We can’t publish without a signed agreement.
• Secure any necessary approvals and run conflict checks at your organization before submitting your work to us.
• We share edits with the authors and set a deadline to correct substance errors before publication, unless otherwise agreed. Any author edits should use track changes.
• Headlines are crafted by our team for clarity and readability and may change post-publication to increase visibility on your piece. Our editors will craft a headline that’s accurate, optimized, and likely to attract readers’ attention.
• Insights authors are executive and senior-level subject matter experts and practitioners.
• We don’t permit external disclaimers or corporate entity acronyms in bios.

We appreciate your interest in contributing. Send pitches, ideas, and questions to insights@bloombergindustry.com