The Chat Sports Premium Blogger Program was created as a platform for bloggers or aspiring journalism students to become the “voice of the fan” for their team. We are looking for smart, passionate writers and students who aspire to showcase their journalistic talents to a larger audience.

As a writer on http://www.ChatSports.com, you will have a number of opportunities and responsibilities:

1. Compelling, original content-
We are looking for writers that can write about more than game analysis. Our writers
cover topics such as recruiting, draft coverage, player profiles, rumors, upcoming matchups, breaking news, state of the team and “Way Back When” – a look at glory days from past seasons.

2. Media Credentials-
You will be given the opportunity to attend games of your team as a member of the press. (free food too!)press. (free food too!)

3. Monitor and utilize social media-
You will be in charge of spreading the gospel of Chat Sports on the Facebook fan page and Twitter account you are given for your team. Web traffic is the name of the game--- and social media powers web traffic.

4. Monitor site content-
In addition to your articles, Chat Sports features the best of the best content on you team from around the web. Blogs, local news, national sources and Twitter are some of the top resources we utilize to deliver a comprehensive news site. As a blogger, you will be tasked with monitoring the quality of the featured content. Also, keep your eye on Twitter to ensure the Twitter accounts of athletes on your team are being featured.

5. Spearhead investigative assignments as requested by the Chat Sports staff -
From time to time, we may ask that you report on a specific topic that relates to your
team.

6. Product Influence-
This is your product. If we can improve a feature or user process, let us know!

7. No hassles, just writing-
We take care of the design and programming. No fussing with coding or color schemes for our writers.

All interested candidates should send an email to our blogging recruiter James at blogger@ChatSports.com and tell him about yourself, your educational and career goals and your passion for the team of your choice!

GlobalNewsweek.com is an online news aggregator that will differ from automated aggregation news sites by virtue of the selective process exercised at the human level with compellingly written stories covering the major world headlines. Writers needed. Website under development.

Seeking regular freelance contributors to cover all aspects of life in New York City for locals and new residents.

We are looking for skilled and experienced writers who know and love New York City (whether you're a native or a recent transplant) and can commit to contributing regularly if selected. You must have experience writing online content. Basic knowledge of html and SEO is preferred.

We are looking for people with creative ideas and diverse perspectives on Manhattan. We are interested in those with specific areas of expertise (music scene, dating, living on the cheap, real estate, focus on particular neighborhood, etc.) and generalists too.

This is a flexible gig with no set hours, but the ideal candidate will be able to commit to contributing at least a few times per month for the next 3-6 months.

Demand Media Studios is hiring writers for eHow Money, a top personal finance site, which helps millions of people take the mystery out of finance and business decisions through credible and informative online articles. We are looking for well qualified writers, bloggers and business/finance professionals to contribute to this site.

As a Demand Media Studios Finance writer, you will be able to write on a variety of topics including personal finance management, home financing, entrepreneurial ventures, investment strategies and others. Articles are short-form, informational and average 300-400 words in length.

Qualifications: We are looking for one or more of the following from our applicants:

Business, finance or management degree
Demonstrated experience in any business, finance or law fields
Experience writing on business and finance topics
College degree in journalism, English or communications

Benefits:

Choose your topics from thousands of available assignments
Receive editorial guidance and feedback
Twice-a-week payments for all published articles
Typical assignments pay $20 per article; you can expect to earn $18 - $25 per hour

Apply Now:

The eHow Money team is a well-qualified group of business and writing professionals. To ensure our visitors are presented with the best advice possible, we screen all applicants for past work experience and their writing ability. If you are interested in being published on eHow Money, please have your resume and a non-fiction writing sample ready and fill out an online application.

Click Here to Learn More and Apply

IBTimes New York (http://newyork.ibtimes.com) is looking for bright and passionate journalism-trained individuals to head up and grow special-interest sections of our international newspaper. We are seeking editors for the Business, Entertainment, Tech, Life&Style, Sports, Photos&Video sections.

The ideal candidate should be comfortable in an entrepreneurial/startup environment and have experience producing breaking and enterprising stories and be familiar with the web.

This start-up position will favor journalists with a mind to aggressively develop and grow the reach of their section.

The section editors will be responsible for shaping the online experience for the assigned section, determining news priorities his/her self and, later a team of reporters, and understand how to present that information in ways that enlighten busy readers.

The main metric of success will be traffic growth and the candidate will be allowed to use his/her own articles, contributors’ content, social media, SEO, distribution channels, and other means to grow his/her readership base.

The job requires strong news judgment, a deep understanding of the local community, and strong reporting skills.

REQUIREMENTS/QUALIFICATIONS

Duties:

- Grow the section and its traffic from a start-up to a top level local newspaper

- Produce coverage of the top stories in your section

- Maintain and Update the section

- Reach traffic goals

Qualifications :

- Journalism Education

- Experience with web publishing, editing, writing

- Knowledge of online distribution methods, SEO, Social Media

- Comfortable with a digital-only newsroom

The editors will be paid according to their performance. For every 10,000 daily average unique visitors, commission will be $1,000. It will rise proportionately.

The positions are for immediate start.

On our blog, we have a section called Talking Blocks with ____, where we profile an interesting New Yorker.

Your job will be to:
- Find prospective people to interview
- Conduct the interview by phone/in-person/email (there is a standard format for each individual)
- Write the blog entry
- Upload it to WordPress

Almost all work will be done remotely and the job may turn into a full-time position. We are looking for several people to help us out.

You must:
- Know WordPress
- Be responsible, hard-working and honest
- Be a self-starter
- Be an excellent writer with strong grammar skills

This pays $15 per post.

FULL CONTACT FIGHTER, the oldest and most respected news source in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), has summer contributing opportunities available for journalism students who are also highly passionate about MMA. Need people to do: News reporting
Video editing
Video production
(Per story/day pay rate.)

The local edition of IBTimes in New York City would like to feature articles by students in the know of New York City. Topics include, but are not limited to: business, politics, sports, entertainment, life & style.

In return, we will provide free promotion and proper attribution sourcing the contributor's site, or however you deem proper.

Okayplayer’s newest channel and blog, Okayafrica, is now taking applications for contributors.

Contributors will have opportunities to blog and write feature articles.

Bloggers are responsible for:
+ seeking out new content and posting it
+ blogging content sent by editors within a set timeframe
+ being available to post 1 blog per day, 4 days a week (these can sometimes be seeded ahead of time)

Feature writers will:
+ pitch features to editors
+ research, write, and possibly photo edit stories
+ work within a deadline

Benefits include:
+The all powerful Letter of Recommendation
+ being published on an established and respected website
+ writer profile + links (on new launch version of okayafrica)
+ access to musicians, artists, and events
+ concert tickets and club access, when available
+ contacts within the music/entertainment fields
+ writing/blogging training and critique
+ school credit, where applicable

Contributors will have the opportunity to work on site as well as off.
Unfortunately no compensation is available at this time.

To apply to be a contributor, please send an email to okay.contributors@gmail.com with a writing sample (short and sweet) and something about yourself.

You may know Etsy as the online craft marketplace, but we’re also a media company with an online magazine and video series that get millions of monthly views. We see ourselves as anthropologists of commerce: curious about people and what they make, exchange and consume. By looking at the “stuff” that matters to our lives, we hope to understand more about what moves us as human beings.

Nowadays, there’s a clamoring to know the story behind what we buy — who made it, how, what route did it travel to our door? Our mission is to reveal these global stories, to introduce our audience to makers, collectors and the history of their goods. Etsy aims to restore community and culture to our commerce, and storytelling is one way we pursue this vision.

As we develop our global reporting team, we are seeking new writers for our blog who can scout and pitch short features (500-800 words) or take assignments. This is a paid position with the expectation of monthly or bi-monthly articles. At present, we are looking for writers based in the U.K., JAPAN and MEXICO, but writers in other countries are welcome to get in touch as we will continue to develop our global team throughout 2011.

Most posts will involve original reporting, but some may be developed off the news and online sources. You might introduce us to an street artist who works with scrap materials, or a teenager who steals copper from gravestones for reselling. Write a book review about beekeeping collectives. Find out who trawls the Goodwill auction sites for undiscovered treasures and tracks their provenance. Tell us about the iPhone factory worker whose photo reminded everyone that industrial products are often handmade. You can focus on objects and what they reveal about people… or tell the stories of the people behind objects… or illuminate how objects connect people.