We’re looking for freelance writers who are interested in covering the intersection of business and culture. Writers will conduct interviews with top entrepreneurs and business owners, cover emerging trends, and pitch ideas for white papers. We’re looking for contributors who are comfortable submitting at least 1 piece per week.

On November 12th, Yahoo News is hosting a live-streamed conference - Digital Democracy: The Yahoo Conference on Politics and Technology - that will explore how technology has changed elections and politics with some of today’s most important political operatives and policy makers.

Attend the event live at Drake University (visit here for event details), tune-in to our live coverage of the event on November 12th or watch on demand starting November 13th and create 1 (one) original piece of reporting based on what you viewed. You must watch at least 1 full panel. Beginning November 12, all content will be viewable at: http://yhoo.it/digitaldemocracy. Submissions may be be in the form of an essay (no longer than 1,500 words), photo essay (no longer than 1,500 words and 20 photos), or video (no longer than 3 minutes in length).

Submissions should be emailed to CollegeContributor@yahoo.com along with your full name, date of birth, college, major, and school e-mail address. For large files a free file sharing site such as DropBox may be used. All submissions must be received before midnight EST on December 1, 2015.

Yahoo will choose 5 winners who will receive:

- Compensation for every piece that is published
- Placement of their original reporting published on the Yahoo Politics Tumblr throughout the 2016 election cycle
- Mentorship opportunities with Yahoo’s top-tier editorial team
- A trip to shadow one of Yahoo News’ best-in-class journalists

Techlicious is looking for bright, energetic contributing writers who have a passion for technology, and the ability to communicate that passion to a wide range of readers, both techies and non-techies, alike. You should have strong knowledge in at least one area of technology (photography, social media, mobile apps, etc.) or a specific lifestyle vertical (health, cooking, etc.) and how technology can be used within that vertical to save money, save time and make readers’ lives better.

Key Responsibilities
• Pitch article ideas and brainstorm interesting and creative new content ideas with Techlicious editors
• Contribute regular news, product reviews and advice stories for publication on Techlicious.com and potential syndication to Techlicious media partners
• Write clean content that clearly communicates to readers your story’s key message points, gather and edit supporting images, and input stories and images into the Techlicious content management system for final editing and publishing
• Promote content through your social media channels to broaden audience engagement and create loyalty for your coverage on Techlicious
Desired Skills & Experience
• Strong knowledge of at least one technology area or one lifestyle vertical and how technology is used within that vertical
• Exceptional writing/storytelling skills
• Detail-oriented: story researched, facts checked, grammar correct, etc.
• Basic knowledge of SEO (we will teach advanced techniques)
• Strong social media experience & profiles a plus

FlockU, a startup set to launch in November, is looking for both student writers, both undergrad and graduate students, to contribute to the site, writing on everything from classes to Greek life to partying to dating to finding an internship. Unlike many publications, we don't expect you to write for us for free - we pay $50 per published post. Ideal candidates should have excellent writing skills, a funny, fresh voice, be comfortable pitching their own ideas for posts, and have a working knowledge of AP Style and web writing. They should also be an English, communications or journalism major.

Responsibilities:
Collect stories and interesting moments from our Portal locations around the world for daily posts.
Lead our social media presence.
Coordinate with our director of film to highlight stories for multimedia use.
Conduct interviews with Portal curators form around the world on a daily basis.
Write daily posts using video, text and sound for our website and the Huffington Post.

iMediaEthics, an award-winning media ethics news website that covers domestic and global media ethics issues, is looking for part-time freelancers to jump-start an initiative promoting higher standards in media polling.

Based on the AAPOR transparency initiative where media pollsters must pledge to the ethical practice of making their questions and methods transparent, the iMediaEthics initiative is an editorial campaign to ensure media outlets are adhering to best practices. Working with editors, you will help plan and execute the campaign. This is a short-term project.

Ideal candidates will have journalism or public policy backgrounds.

Transportation paid.

We're looking for contributors with journalism experience and knowledge of the cannabis landscape domestically and/or globally to write for us.

Specifically, we're eager to speak with writers that have contacts, or live in, a state with legalized medical or recreational use cannabis.

We are not looking to hire activists or advocates. Cannabis Wire is strictly a journalistic publication.

Do you love writing and connecting with an audience? Are you studying about nutrition and dietetics? Are you passionate about food and living a healthy lifestyle?

If so, then you’ll love working with us.

We’re a new food/health & wellness start-up, and we’re growing very quickly! We’re looking for 2 talented, motivated contributors to join our growing editorial team. You’ll help with content creation, editing, writing, editorial brainstorming, social media and more.

Ideally, you will have the ability work 15 hours a week from our Soho offices. Days are flexible. Start date is ASAP or November 1.

You must:

• Be creative with copy
• Have journalistic/writing experience
• Have an academic and/or professional background in nutrition/dietetics
• Have editing skills
• Be web and social media savvy
• Blogging and digital media experience is a plus
• Be self-motivated and able to manage multiple tasks
• Have previous internship experience, participation in college clubs/organizations or in-depth coursework in a related field

A sense of humor and a “go-get-‘em” attitude is a bonus! Foodies and health nuts welcome.

You get:
• TONS of karmic goodness
• Experience helping millions of people struggling to manage their health conditions with food-based solutions
• You’ll get free yoga classes with the Founder
• Monthly dinners where we test user submitted recipes
• Access to senior media, health and culinary professionals

Remote Position: Contributor to join our start-up as we go into our next big stage of building content on our site. While working remotely, position begins with handling of short news articles on a range of entrepreneurial and small business topics associated with the New York tech entrepreneur scene. Able to commit to a block of time once or twice a week to receive in-house assignments to be done remotely and reliably. Chance to show your writing skills and progress to longer length assignments.

American Entrepreneurship Today (R) is a registered trademark associated with our national site for entrepreneurship: AmericanEntrepreneurship.com and a growing family of state web sites covering entrepreneurship that includes NY, PA and NJ: Check out our NY Site: www.AmericanEntrepreneurship.com/ny

Candidates should have had solid exposure to writing courses and able to submit samples of prior work. We are located in New Jersey. Right candidate will work remotely in New York City with periodic meetings with publisher.

Those People, a new Black Magazine, is looking for Black writers with an interesting and unique perspective.