Love Holidays?
Examiner.com, a Quantcast Top 100 website and the
fastest growing news website in the nation, seeks freelance content contributors (we call them “Examiners”) to share local insights, knowledge
and experience about Home & Living topics, especially Holiday related titles. It’s a great way to cover what you love and communicate
what’s happening in your city, as well as supplement your income.
Here are some hot topic titles we’re eager to fill in this
category:
- Arts & Crafts Examiner
- Christmas Examiner
- Do-It-Yourself
Examiner
- Green Building Examiner
- Hanukkah Examiner
- Holidays Examiner
- Home Improvement Examiner
- Interior Decorating
Examiner
- Party Planning Examiner
- Sustainable Agriculture Examiner
- Urban Agriculture
Examiner
- And many others to choose from or you can propose your own topic to write about!
Click on the following to get an idea of what other Examiners in this channel are writing about:
Denver Urban Agriculture Examiner
Holidays Examiner (National)
Manhattan Interior Design Examiner
Examiners often become the "go-to" people in their topics and have appeared on local, national, and international media, including
The Today Show, NPR, E!, CNN, Fox Sports, ESPN, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Discovery Channel, The Wall Street Journal, and other
television, radio and print after writing articles for Examiner.com.
What is an Examiner?
- Credible, passionate, and
knowledgeable writers and subject matter experts who contribute unique and original content to entertain, inform, and inspire their readers
- Photographers who provide captivating images and slideshows for their audience
- Local insiders and influencers who
provide reliable intelligence and resources on local and category-specific topics
- Active within their communities
- From
all walks of life and professions, including Pulitzer nominees and professional journalists, college students, civil servants, retirees,
musicians, magazine editors, stay-at-home parents or PhDs.
Why Become an Examiner? - As an Independent Contractor,
work freelance & telecommute on your own schedule
- Build your audience and enhance your resume
- Creative freedom to
choose what to cover within your selected topic
- Enjoy ancillary perks of being the “go to” expert on your topic.
- We
provide the platform, promotion, training, tools and an exclusive networking system to connect with other
writers/photographers
- Competitive pay based on standard internet variables including page views, unique visitors, session length,
and advertising performance, so your income grows as your readership grows
- Additional income opportunities through incentive
programs such as the Examiner Referral Program
- Join the largest team of vetted content contributors online and showcase your
content on a site with over 17 million monthly unique visitors.
Although this is not a "quit your day job" kind of
opportunity, Examiners can definitely earn some extra cash while gaining exposure through their writing and growing their online
presence.
Qualifications
- Passion for the topic!
- Strong writing ability including style, technique,
spelling, punctuation, etc.
- Access to timely, accurate information within their topic
- Ability to keep their
homepage current, which usually means publishing a minimum of two to four brief articles per week depending on the topic
- Desire
to build their readership, understand their audience, and be the expert
- Technically savvy; able to learn and utilize
web/publishing tools
- Keep in mind that unlike blogging and journaling platforms, Examiner.com focuses on providing reliable
information, resources and education; therefore, writing sample submissions should be from a reporting perspective rather than first person
narratives.
About Examiner.com
Launched in April 2008, Examiner.com is the insider source for everything local,
offering a rich mix of hyper-local and globally-relevant content. We have presence in most U.S. cities, thousands of towns and neighborhoods,
and are developing a strong presence in international markets including Canada, the U.K., the Philippines and Australia. Examiner.com is
a division of the Clarity Digital Group, LLC, wholly owned by The Anschutz Company, a Denver-based investment company whose broad array of
assets include AEG Entertainment and other live sports and entertainment; print and digital media; hospitality; film production and exhibition;
wind energy development and transmission; as well as ranching and oil/gas exploration. We have the largest team of vetted content
contributors online, and continue to grow at an exponential rate!
Please
visit our website to apply or
learn more.
- Compensation: Competitive pay based on standard internet variables including page views, unique visitors, session length, and advertising performance
- Telecommuting is ok.
- This is a part-time job.
- This is a contract job.
- Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
- Please, no phone calls about this job!
- Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.
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