After almost a year of working with federal legislation, we are expanding into local legislation in San Francisco and New York City. We are looking for writers to focus on this new area of service.

If you are a voracious consumer of local politics who cares deeply about how changes in your city affect your community, this position may be right for you!

We are looking for writers in New York City or San Francisco areas with a demonstrated knowledge of the local political scene and the ability to meet with local experts, politicians, journalists, and community members.

You will be working through the legal jargon in legislative texts, parsing out the true meaning of local bills and writing summaries using language that the average person can understand. (Please see the federal bill summaries currently posted in our app as an example.)

We are looking for people who care about:
- Addressing the wide gaps in civic engagement across the country
- The lack of influence most people in the U.S. have in the political decision making process
- Holding elected officials accountable for their actions and to their constituents
- Transparency in government

WE WANT DIVERSE VOICES.
People with diverse life experiences and viewpoints are eagerly encouraged to apply. We need everyone to participate in order for our democracy to be strong and vibrant.

REQUIREMENTS:
- Solid experience in journalism, editing, and/or legislative writing.
- Ability to represent political issues in a neutral, unbiased tone in a way that will engage a diverse political and demographic audience.
- Proven ability to carefully check facts, proofread your own work, and meet deadlines.
- Demonstrated high standards for fairness, thoroughness and accurate citations.

CONTRACT DETAILS
This is a flexible part-time contractor role (~20 hours/week) with potential for growth as Countable moves forward into more localities and state legislation. Writing assignments will be distributed based on upcoming bills. Contributing writers are also encouraged to stay current on upcoming legislation and propose relevant writing assignments.

We’re Zumper, a rapidly growing real estate tech startup based in San Francisco. As we continue to improve our platform, we're looking for a writer to create city-specific content for our blog. The first would be for New York, with the potential for additional cities in the future.

This is an ongoing freelance position - paid per piece.

Skills required:
-Native english speaker, with a fun, professional writing tone.
-Intimate knowledge of neighborhoods: preferably a local or someone who has lived in the city for an extended period of time.
-Expert research skills.
-Ability to self-edit, with a keen eye for grammar.

Work as part of an interdisciplinary team, including policy analysts and video and online producers, to cover and report on questions of nuclear weapons and weapons policy and the proliferation of nuclear weapons. This is a paid position.

Museum Event Coverage
Assignment: 1 article; including a site visit, interviews, and photography (or images provided by the museum)
Length: 1200-1500 words
Topic: A write-up on the opening of the exhibit Unknown Notebooks at the Brooklyn Museum

FiorellaEats is a food blog lead by Registered Dietitian and explores food culture in NYC. The Food Writer will look for food news/and be given assignments. Looking for creative, energetic and detail oriented people! Excellent writing skills and professional demeanor to attend events.

The Real Deal, the leading publication covering the New York City and South Florida real estate markets, is looking for an editor to help us syndicate our content in China in advance of a large event we are doing in Shanghai this September.

The editor will select articles written by The Real Deal staff that would be of interest to a Chinese audience involved in the real estate industry -- whether they are brokers or bankers or homeseekers -- and both translate and rewrite the pieces to maximize their usefulness for that audience. The content will then be distributed in China through various media partnerships The Real Deal has developed.

We are looking for an experienced writer with knowledge of the real estate industry who is fluent in both English and Mandarin. This position is based in New York.

We are looking for great writer to work on news-based and issue-based content with our editorial team. The role will involve regular content updates reflecting current events and trending national news. We provide unbiased facts about key issues, as well as political poll questions and fun quizzes to help people learn about key national issues. If you are a news junkie with a voice, we want you!

We’re looking for a freelancer or freelancers to do some cops/crime reporting, primarily police blotters for the three editions but also some reporting.

One aspect would entail courting police in precincts on the UES, UWS and the west side of downtown and filing weekly copy of between 300 and 500 words for each of the three papers. The pay is $40 for each set, for a total of $120. Here's a prototype, but of a kind we'd like to ameliorate: http://www.westsidespirit.com/crime-watch/20150216/crime-watch/3

We're also looking for this reporter or reporters to do additional legwork on the stand-out blotter items – for instance, on a notable or unusual/odd caper, or on a neighborhood crime trend – that merit it. Ideally, he or she would write one, two or even three of those stories a week. Those would pay $50 each.
The precincts we need covered:
On the Upper West Side: the 20th Precinct, on West 82nd Street; and the 24th Precinct, on West 100th Street.

On the Upper East Side: 23rd Precinct, on East 102nd; and the 19th precinct, on East 67th Street.
And downtown: The First Precinct, at Varick and Beach Streets; the Sixth Precinct, on West 10th Street; and the 10th Precinct, on West 20th Street.

The Village Voice is looking for regular contributors to our online news section, which we update with stories throughout the day. (We include the best stories in our weekly print edition.) We need writers who can be on call for daily news assignments and who are able to pitch interesting, reported, local stories that can be turn around in a timely manner.

We want smart, interesting news stories about the unique people, places, and happenings that make up this city. We are not interested in aggregating the hourly news cycle, nor in hot takes on the day's events — though we do encourage reporting on and advancing intriguing items plucked from the constant stream churned out by the mainstream media.

Of course, we also seek reporters who are able to deliver intelligent writing that is up to the high standards of the Village Voice.

Contributors are required to submit a 200-400 word article on a weekly basis, documenting their experiences and sharing the culture of the host city. Articles are submitted Wednesdays for posting the following week; this is an experience opportunity, there is no pay for the articles, but bylines and a bio on the website are included, as well as the chance for future opportunities. Check out work from our Study Abroad column at http://www.trazeetravel.com/?s=james+kenvin