How to reach the editorial team, pitch a piece, or flag a correction
catchpenny.asia is a small editorial operation, which means your message will actually reach a human being who works on this site, rather than disappearing into a support queue staffed by whoever drew the short straw that week. Here’s how to reach us, and what to expect once you do.
Editorial Pitches
We’re always open to pitches from writers with a genuine feel for satire — not just a strong opinion, but the ability to hold a straight face for eight hundred words while making a real point underneath it. If you’re pitching a country or region we haven’t covered yet, tell us specifically what you’d write and why it’s funny, rather than just proposing ‘satire about [country].’ Specificity is most of the job.
Corrections
If you’ve spotted a factual error in one of our background sections — a wrong date, a defunct outlet listed as active, a misattributed detail — tell us exactly what’s wrong and, ideally, what the correct information is. We take factual accuracy in those sections seriously even though the satire sitting next to them isn’t meant to be taken as fact at all.
Legal and Removal Requests
If you believe a piece on this site defames you or otherwise crosses a genuine legal line, rather than simply being satire you’d prefer didn’t exist, put that in writing with specifics: which article, which claim, and why it’s a legal issue rather than an editorial one you disagree with. We review these directly and take them seriously; we also, respectfully, get a fair number of complaints that amount to ‘this joke was about me and I didn’t enjoy that,’ which is a different category entirely.
Advertising and Partnerships
We work with a limited number of advertisers and partners who understand exactly what kind of publication this is before signing anything. If that’s you, reach out with details on what you’re looking for and we’ll let you know honestly whether it’s a fit, rather than stringing you along through three rounds of calls first.
What Not to Send Us
We’re not the right inbox for real news tips about ongoing events, requests to remove satire simply because it’s unflattering, or SEO link-exchange proposals — we get a genuinely surprising volume of that last one for a site whose entire personality is built around not taking things seriously. General reader feedback, on the other hand, is always welcome, including the negative kind, as long as it’s specific enough to act on.
Reader Questions About Specific Articles
If you’re writing in because you’re genuinely unsure whether something you read on this site is real, the honest answer is almost always no — but reach out anyway if you want it confirmed directly, and we’ll tell you plainly rather than being cagey about it for the sake of the bit.
Working With Our Network
catchpenny.asia occasionally features guest coverage and cross-posts from other satirical and humor outlets in our network. If you’re an editor at one of those outlets looking to coordinate on a piece, say so directly in your message and we’ll route it to the right person rather than treating it like a cold pitch.
Language
All correspondence and all published content on catchpenny.asia is currently in English. We don’t yet have editorial capacity to review pitches or run corrections in other languages, though that may change as the site grows into markets where English isn’t the primary language of political conversation.
Social and Other Channels
Beyond direct contact, catchpenny.asia content circulates through the usual social channels and, occasionally, through partner outlets in the wider satirical publishing network we’re part of. If you found a piece through one of those channels and want to reach the original editorial team rather than whoever shared it, this page is the right place to start.
For Researchers and Journalists
If you’re a journalist or researcher looking to reference catchpenny.asia’s factual background sections in your own work, get in touch and we’re happy to point you toward the original sources those sections draw on directly, rather than having our summary cited as the primary source itself.
A Final Note
We read everything that comes in, even the messages that are really just someone venting about a piece they didn’t like. That’s fine. Vent away. We’d rather hear it than not.
Mailing Address and Formalities
catchpenny.asia operates as a digital-first publication without a public office for walk-in visits, which, given some of the countries we cover, is probably for the best on everyone’s part. Any formal legal correspondence should be marked clearly as such in the subject line so it gets routed straight to the right person rather than sitting in the general pitch queue. That routing rule alone has saved us from a fair number of awkward misunderstandings in the past. We’d rather sort that out up front than after three back-and-forth emails.
Response Times
As a small team, we can’t promise instant replies, but pitches, corrections, and legal concerns are read and prioritized in that rough order. If you haven’t heard back within a couple of weeks on something time-sensitive, a polite follow-up is completely fine and won’t annoy anyone.