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lwn.net
In short: Getting listed on LWN.net is unpriced — no fee is published either way. Plan for a few hours — it wants written material and a decision you do not control.
What they ask for: Pitch a timely, deeply researched Linux or open-source security story with primary sources and explain the author's direct expertise before drafting.
Pitch a timely, deeply researched Linux or open-source security story with primary sources and explain the author's direct expertise before drafting.
Contact the editors with a detailed pitch first. LWN requires factual, authoritative, concise, sourced, human-written work and explicitly does not publish text from large language models.
Open the submission page on lwn.net and complete its form — that is the "Open submit page" link at the top of this page.
Contact the editors with a detailed pitch first. LWN requires factual, authoritative, concise, sourced, human-written work and explicitly does not publish text from large language models.
Priority sets the band — this one is high. Cost (not stated) and effort (involved) move it within that band, which puts it in the high impact tier. The score orders a submission queue. It is not a measure of the site’s domain authority, traffic or quality.