Posted On: November 30, 2016
Journalism Job
Media Organization: Blasting News
Company Description
Launched in mid-2013, Blasting News is now the fastest growing global news publisher: the 155th most visited website in the world (Alexa Ranking), counting on 92+ million monthly unique visitors and 1 million blasters from 34 countries, who publish 21.000+ original news each month in 24 different languages. Blasting News has been selected and funded by Google Innovation Fund (DNI) to revolutionize digital information in Europe. Blasting News has offices in London (headquarters), New York, Sao Paulo, Milan, Rome and Singapore.
Blasting News has an ambitious goal: to make our world a better place, giving everyone the possibility of sharing ideas with a global audience and enjoying truly independent information. Blasting News is made by the people, made for the people: at the core, Blasting News is a news publisher totally fueled and curated by the crowd: news is produced by delocalized contributors (Blasters) and fact-checked and curated by a quality team of professionals (Senior Blasters). Both Blasters and Senior Blasters are paid based on performance; in addition to this, the best news may be distributed around by the Social Blasters, a global team of digital influencers selected through application and interviews. All the core processes are managed by technology: e.g., home pages are handled by a patent-pending algorithm without human intervention.
Blasting News has a very innovative proposition:
100% Independent - Blasting News encourages a wide range of points of view. All blasters can freely choose the topic and the medium of their contents. Blasting News has adopted George Whitefield’s principle “We’ll just have to agree to disagree.”
100% Democratic - Blasting News does not have any central editorial office: we have developed a technology that promotes the most interesting, highest quality news, taking into account a huge number of factors.
100% Meritocratic - Blasters earn money thanks to a simple quality-based system: the more people that read the content, the more money the Blaster receives. Money comes from advertisement sold on the webpages.
Job Description
Main Goal
Report news and great stories.
Main Responsibilities
Publish high quality news, having the chance to use a variety of formats (written articles, videos).
Share and promote the news through social networks to increase the number of the readers.
Compensation
Up to $500 per article by December 31st, 2016.
The Compensation may vary according to a number of factors, such as Readers reading the article (the more people read the content, the more money you can earn); Type of topics and categories; Source of the readers. The compensation scheme is fully available on this page http://www.blastingnews.com/
A welcome package will be granted to the most promising writers (the welcome package is available ONLY to the Blasters applying through this job offer and following the Selection Process as described below).
Competences and Experience
Some/strong knowledge of publishing content on the web.
Ability to verify sources and fact-check articles.
Passionate about innovative online media paradigms, social journalism and democracy in the information system. Interest and skills in SEO and in social media marketing.
Operating Details
Type of contract: freelance.
Job Location: Anywhere. The Blaster is not required to check in at an office
Working hours: Flexible. The Blaster can work on a flexible basis.
To Apply
The candidate should sent a resume and a brief writing sample or a short description of writing experiences to us_career@blasitingnews.com for consideration.
The HR team will evaluate the resume and will follow up with the candidate.