DEADLINE: The IP List

The Popshift IP List is a project that surfaces and promotes extraordinary journalism (often by underrepresented authors) for adaptation in the film and television market. 

If you’re a journalist in the U.S. or Canada and you think a story you’ve worked on would make a good movie or episode of a television show, start by reading the nomination information package, which also contains the nomination form. Selected submissions will then be presented to an array of Hollywood professionals. 

The IP List takes no financial stake in any projects that result. Newsrooms of any size, as well as freelancers, can submit stories. The project team is very interested in solutions stories.

Deadlines: Two nominations by the earlybird deadline of Aug 3, 2025 or one nomination by the final deadline of Sep 1, 2025.

Join the SJN info session on July 23, 2025 @ 2:00pm EDT, just for the Solutions Journalism Network, to learn more. Christine MacLaren, who launched the solutions journalism publication Reasons to be Cheerful and runs IP List, is offering this special session because she comes out of solutions journalism herself, and knows how valuable solutions stories are to Hollywood.

Or, join the Popshift info session on July 25, 2025 @ 11 am PST or in August (date TBD).