Job Description
Local insiders wanted.
Share what you know.
Examiner.com, the insider source for everything local, is growing and looking for freelance content contributors (we call them "Examiners") to share local insights, knowledge and experience. Unlike traditional blog sites, our talented writers and photographers are subject matter experts focused on providing useful information to an audience of over 14 million monthly unique visitors. As an Examiner, you will have your own page on the Examiner.com website, complete with a bio and photo, to showcase your articles about a specific topic in your area of expertise. Examiner.com currently has the largest team of pre-qualified freelance contributors on the web and is quickly becoming a Top 100 website.
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, scientists, stay-at-home parents or PhDs .
The talented people we're looking for can provide their local community with interesting and helpful information in one of the following 25 channel categories:
- Arts & Entertainment
- Bars & Clubs
- Business & Finance
- Careers & Workplace
- Education & Schools
- Family & Parenting
- Fitness & Weight Loss
- Food & Drink
- Gadgets & Technology
- Games & Hobbies
- Health
- Home & Living
- Neighborhoods
- News
- Pets
- Politics
- Recreation
- Relationships
- Religion & Spirituality
- Restaurants
- Society & Culture
- Sports
- Style & Fashion
- Transportation
- Travel
There are several topics to choose from within each channel, or, you can propose your own topic to write about!
Click on the following to get an idea of what current Examiners are covering:
Micah Beree - NY Restaurant Photography Examiner
Seth Smigelski - LA Outdoor Recreation 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. A couple examples of our National Examiners include bestselling author John Gray (National Mars Venus Relationships Examiner) and celebrity reporter Robin Leach (National Luxe Life Examiner).
Why Become an Examiner?
- 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
- 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.
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.
Job Requirements
Requirements
- 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 three 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
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. Website visitors are geo-targeted to their closest market, with over 18 million monthly unique visitors expected by the end of 2009. Examiner.com is a division of the Clarity Media Group, and is wholly owned by The Anschutz Company, one of the largest media investment companies in the world. We currently have over 12,000 Examiners, the largest team of vetted content contributors online, and continue to grow at an exponential rate!
Sound interesting? Please click the "Apply Now" button below to apply or learn more
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