You should be able to pitch a story in a couple of pars.

He eventually became confident enough to pitch a story idea to The World.

Hey, you should totally pitch a story about that.

The feature came about after he told me about his goal, and then I encouraged him to pitch a story.

Because I'm a very serious journalist, I pitched a story to my editor about uncovering the secrets of Sizzler's cheese toast.

I'd have to get a lot more experience before I could even think of pitching a story to one of the glossies.